AEROSPACE
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Japan Buying 2 More AWACS, Boeing Says: The Seattle-based aerospace company said the government order is worth $773 million. The surveillance planes are 767s made in Everett, north of Seattle, and modified with airborne warning and control system equipment at Boeing Co.’s plant in Wichita, Kan. Japan ordered its first two AWACS in 1993. They will be delivered in 1998. Those ordered in the new transaction will be delivered in 1999. The planes are used by the United States and its allies as an airborne radar platform to monitor planes and ships over a wide area.
