THE U.S. Air Force will soon decide on a new tanker to replace the aging KC-135. Boeing has proposed a KC-767AT and Northrop Grumman is offering the KC-30 based on Airbus’ A330 commercial aircraft.

EVERETT – There’s about $400 million-worth of annual economic impact in Washington state riding on a proposal the Boeing Co. handed over to the U.S. Air Force this week. If successful in winning the ...

Northrop Grumman Corp. announced Monday that it won’t compete against Boeing Co. for a $35 billion contract to build refueling tankers for the Air Force because Northrop doesn’t think it can win. The ...

This next story takes us back down into the atmosphere. The Air Force will shortly announce the winner of a contract that could be worth up to $150 billion. It's for a new fleet of refueling tankers, ...

Northrop Grumman Corp. said Monday that it has nearly doubled its estimate of the number jobs that will be created as a result of the $35 billion contract it got from the Air Force to make aerial ...

Some days, an aircraft wants to be more than just a troop transport. The Bell Boeing V-22 program is now trying out the tilt-rotor Osprey to see how it might fare as a flying gas station. Jon ...

WICHITA, Kan. -- In what company officials described as a bid to cut costs in a tight market for defense spending, Boeing announced plans to close its massive plant in Wichita before the end of 2013, ...

Boeing and Airbus are competing for a major Air Force contract to build air refueling tankers. The competition has been public, political and nasty. And the stakes are high — a contract worth up to ...