Textron's Bell subsidiary has marked the third anniversary of the V-280 Valor's initial flight and touted that the tiltrotor aircraft recorded 200 mission hours.

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A tiltrotor aircraft built by Textron’s Bell subsidiary has completed its first autonomous flight test at the company’s facility in Arlington, Va., Defense News reported Thursday.

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Textron’s Bell subsidiary is slated to test the autonomous flight feature of a tiltrotor aircraft’s fly-by-wire control system as part of the U.S. Army’s one-year extension to the Joint Multi Role Technology Demonstration initiative, Asia Times reported Tuesday.

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Bell's V-280 Valor tiltrotor met the U.S. Army’s handling requirements during the latest series of flight demonstrations, Flightglobal reported Tuesday.

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Bell Textron held on March 11 the grand opening of a new weapon systems integration lab at its Flight Research Center in Arlington, Texas. The 47,000-square-foot facility will serve as home to future development programs, including the U.S. Army's Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft, Bell Textron said Monday.

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Bell Textron is now shifting focus to an upcoming U.S. Army aircraft program of record competition in summer after ending the three-year flight testing of its V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft. The Textron subsidiary said Thursday that it would start working on the weapons system and subsystem designs of its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft candidate. Bell […] More

Textron’s Bell subsidiary has awarded contracts to Rolls-Royce and aerospace technology manufacturer Astronics to provide propulsion and power generation systems to support Bell’s bid for the U.S. Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft competition.

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