Bell To Begin Build This Month Of 360 Invictus Prototype For Army's FARA Program

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Bell [TXT] is set to begin the build this month of its 360 Invictus competitive prototype for the Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program, with the aircraft to be completed by summer of 2022 ahead of first flight in the fall of that year.Keith Flail, Bell's executive vice president of advanced vertical lift systems, also told Defense Daily the company is planning for Army test pilots to conduct another flight in November of its V-280 Valor offering for Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program."Very soon we'll be starting the assembly work, the build, of the Bell 360 Invictus," Flail said."We're well into detailed design and manufacturing parts. And we're currently accepting those parts into our facility out at Amarillo [in Texas] where we're initiating the build. So we're on schedule to meet all of our program requirements for FARA, and we'll actually be beginning the build of the 360 Invictus within days."