Northrop Grumman, Northrop Grumman Corporation has mated the major subassemblies of the first E-2D Advanced Hawkeye test aircraft at its St. Augustine, Fla., manufacturing center into a single fuselage structure, taking the E-2D program another milestone closer to the scheduled first flight in the summer of 2007.
The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye will be the U.S. Navy's new airborne early warning and battle management system and a key node in the service's architecture for 21st century operations: Sea Power 21.
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