AIR FORCE READ OF THE DAY
Boeing CEO regrets Air Force One deal amid big quarterly losses
By Stephen Losey
Wednesday, Apr 27
A VC-25A Air Force One aircraft sits on a ramp at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska during a brief stop Jan. 22. The aircraft is one of two modified Boeing 747 Airliners that serve as a transport aircraft for the President of the United States. (Josh Plueger/Air Force)
WASHINGTON — Boeing reported $1.3 billion in cost overrun charges among some of its major defense programs in its most recent quarter, lowering its defense unit’s sales in what its chief executive called a “messier quarter.”
Much of those charges — a little more than $1 billion — came from development of the new Air Force One and the Air Force’s T-7A Red Hawk trainer, the company said in its quarterly earnings statement Wednesday.
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