Boeing Team Begins Building Indian Navy's 1st P-8I Aircraft

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The Boeing P-81 team began fabricating the first part for the Indian Navy's first long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft on Dec. 6 in Wichita. The P-81, based on the Boeing Next-Generation 737 commercial airplane, is a variant of the P-8A Poseidon that Boeing is developing for the U.S. Navy. Employees at Spirit AeroSystems - where all Boeing Next-Generation 737 fuselages, nacelles and pylons are designed and built - cut the P-81's first part, a bonded aluminum panel that later will be installed on the fuselage's upper lobe to support an antenna. The panel and other fuselage components will come together on Spirit's existing Next-Generation 737 production line. "Today marks the P-81 program's move from the design phase to the build phase," said Leland Wight, Boeinq P-81 program manager.