Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant the Answer of 6 July to Question 67564 on AWACS: Procurement, whether all conversion work for E-7 Wedgetail aircraft purchased by the UK will take place in Birmingham.
Yes. As announced by Boeing in May this year, a contract has been signed with STS Aviation, based at Birmingham Airport, to carry out the modification of the base 737 Next Generation civil airliner into E7.