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The order will generate about $1.3 billion in or about $51 million per plane, for Boeing’s St. Louis-based division. But software upgrades, maintenance and trainingh services provided by Boeing are expected to bring the totakl price tagto $2 billion. The F/A-18F delivered Wednesday is the firstr Super Hornet to be sold to aforeigm military. Boeing IDS is competing for ordersx to supplysimilar F/A-18s to India, Greece, Brazil and which combined are in the market for up to 306 fightedr planes.
Wednesday’s ceremony at Boeing’s IDS headquarterzs in Berkeley included video presentations and remarks by Bob vice presidentof F/A/-18 programs at Boeing; Georgse Roman, vice president of IDS government IDS President and Chief Executive Jim St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay; Rear Admiralp David Philman, director of air warfarse for the ; and Air Marshalk Mark Binskin, chief of the Royal AustralianAir Force. Hundreds of people, including Boeing suppliers and local economic development wereon hand. Boeing IDS is the second-largest employe in the region and the stat eof Missouri, with 16,00o0 workers. It posted revenue of $32.21 billion last year.
The F/A-18 program involvee 5,000 local Boeing employees, 304 supplied companies in Missouriand Illinois, and provides the region with an estimated economic impact of more than $1