Key milestone reached: Pratt & Whitney and GE have cleared assembly readiness reviews for their adaptive engines, moving ...

Boeing has secured the EMD contract to advance the development of its F-47 design for the NGAD program. Here is a summary of the key details released so far. After months of uncertainty, Boeing was ...

Engine assembly cleared: Pratt & Whitney and GE have completed readiness reviews for XA103 and XA102 adaptive cycle engines, moving toward physical builds for late-2020s testing. AI saves aircraft: ...

U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General David Allvin announced on Sept. 22, 2025 that Boeing had begun the manufacturing process for the first production F-47, with a goal of seeing it airborne by 2028.

The F-47 is expected to replace or complement existing fifth-generation fighters, such as the F-22 Raptor, with initial operational capability anticipated sometime in the late 2020s or early 2030s.

The Air Force released this artist's rendering of the F-47, Boeing's successful pitch for the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter aircraft. (Air Force) The Pentagon has awarded the long-awaited ...

It will soon be a year since American president Donald Trump announced the official birth of the country’s and the world’s first-ever sixth-generation combat aircraft, the Boeing F-47, and not much ...

Production of the sixth-generation fighter component of the NGAD F-47 is advancing nicely, Boeing CEO says. Big-name manufacturer Boeing was tapped to construct the US Air Force’s Next-Generation Air ...