When the USAF selected the Airbus A330 -based Northrop Grumman/EADS KC-45 proposal over Boeing's KC-767 two years ago, Washington DC went into uproar over selection of a "foreign" aircraft ...

The two companies said in a joint statement they had "continued confidence in and support of the Northrop Grumman KC-45 tanker ... based on the commercially successful A330 aircraft".

As part of the cancellation of the KC-X contract originally awarded to Northrop Grumman and EADS last years EADS received a payment for the first aircraft they started to modify. Final termination ...

The announcement by EADS NA Chairman Ralph Crosby on 20 February at the National Press Club comes six weeks after Northrop Grumman withdrew as prime contractor for the KC-45 over charges that the ...

"In 2008 the US Air Force selected the Northrop Grumman KC-45 on the merits of its superior capability and low risk--the best value, most advanced tanker available anywhere in the world.

The Air Force plans to tell Northrop Grumman and EADS to stop referring to their KC-30 tanker as the KC-45, Air Force Magazine reports. But Northrop isn’t budging.

When Northrop Grumman (NOC) announced in March that it would not bid for the new aerial tanker for the U.S. Air Froce, the KC-X, Boeing (BA) and its many supporters in Congress believed it was ...

The Northrop Grumman Corp./EADS team plans to hold a ceremonial groundbreaking for its refueling tanker assembly plant in Mobile on June 28 -- even though the $40 billion contract is being ...

Some have labeled the KC-45 project a “French” tanker because one of Northrop Grumman’s partners on it is the North American subsidiary of EADS, parent of Airbus.

Northrop Grumman has decided not to compete against Boeing for the $35 billion the U.S. Air Force will spend to buy its own fleet of refueling tankers. The KC-45 it had submitted is based on the ...

The two companies said they would propose a version of a plane now made by EADS and would assemble it at a plant under construction in Mobile, Ala. The plane would be called the KC-30, they said.

This article first appeared at Aviation Week.com.The first Northrop Grumman/EADS North America A330 for the U.S. Air Force has been sent to Germany in preparation for a cargo modification, though ...