To fill production gap, Boeing looks to sell two F-15s

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Years of intense lobbying on the part of the Missouri congressional delegation and Boeing could pay off big for the St. Louis area and the defense giant as the Air Force contends with skyrocketing fighter-jet prices and a serious budget crunch.

The looming cuts in the Air Force’s long-delayed and pricey F/A-22 Raptor and the multinational Joint Strike Fighter — two new-generation aircraft — have given the Missouri delegation a new argument to keep the defense spending flowing to the St. Louis area. Those cuts could prompt the Air Force to keep buying a less expensive, older aircraft, the F-15 Eagle.

Future sales to the Air Force and to prospective foreign buyers hinge on obtaining funding for two aircraft, Boeing argues.

Air Force procurement of the F-15 Eagle technically was terminated in 1991, but Congress revived the program and the production line for the aircraft several times over the years.

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