10/23/2025

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Rob
Conference Operator

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Textron third quarter 2025 earnings release. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. You will have the opportunity to ask questions during the question and answer portion of this call. You may register for a question at any time by pressing star followed by one on your telephone keypad. You may withdraw yourself from the queue by pressing star followed by one again. If anyone needs assistance at any time during the conference, please press the star followed by zero. I would now like to turn the conference over to Scott Hegstrom. Please go ahead, sir.

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Scott Hegstrom
Vice President, Investor Relations

Scott Hegstrom Thanks, Rob, and good morning, everyone. Before we begin, I'd like to mention we will be discussing future estimates and expectations during our call today. These forward-looking statements are subject to various risk factors, which are detailed in our SEC filings and also in today's press release. On the call today, we have Scott Donnelly, TechFunds Chairman and CEO, and David Rosenberg, our Chief Financial Officer. Our earnings call presentation can be found in the investor relations section of our website. Revenues in the quarter were $3.6 billion, up 5% or $175 million from last year's third quarter. Segment profit in the quarter was $357 million, up 26% or $73 million from the third quarter of 2024. Adjusted income from continuing operations was $1.55 per share compared to $1.40 per share in last year's third quarter. Manufacturing cash flow before pension contributions totaled $281 million in the quarter compared to $147 million in last year's third quarter. With that, I'll turn the call over to Scott.

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Thanks, Scott. Good morning, everybody. Let me just start with yesterday's announcement. I'm sure you've all read by now that yesterday we elected Lisa Atherton to become our new president and CEO, effective at the beginning of January. At that point in time, I'll transition to be the executive chair of This is the result of a long, thorough process that we worked with on the board. I think Lisa, who's been with our company for about 18 years, is an outstanding leader. She's had a number of really important roles in the company over the years. She was the president and CEO of our Textron Systems business for about five years. Most recently, obviously, she's the president and CEO of Bell, where she's been very involved in both the capture, the win, and now the execution of the ramp on MV75. She's a fabulous leader. She knows the teams. She's surrounded by a great team at the business level across the company. So we're proud of the fact that we had a great internal promotion, and I think she'll just do a fabulous job leading the company into the future. So with that, let me go ahead and talk about the quarter. Overall, revenue was higher driven by strong growth across our aerospace and defense businesses. Aviation had higher segment revenues and profit compared to the third quarter of last year. We delivered 42 jets and 39 commercial turboprops compared to 41 jets and 25 commercial turboprops in last year's third quarter. Textile aviation's fleet utilization remained strong in the quarter, contributing to an aftermarket revenue growth of 5% as compared to last year's third quarter. Aviation backlog into the third quarter is $7.7 billion as demand remains strong. Earlier this month, Textile Aviation completed the certification of the CJ-3 Gen-2 and autothrottles on the M-2 Gen-2. Also this month, the Citation Ascend made its debut as it landed in Las Vegas for the NBAA exhibition. We are nearing completion of the certification process and continue to expect deliveries this quarter. During the quarter, the Latitude received FAA certification for new features of the Garmin 5000 avionics suite. These features include synthetic vision guidance systems and improved approach capabilities down to 150 feet and a new taxiway routing feature. We continue to implement Starlink high-speed internet connectivity onto our aircraft, With the recent announcement of the Latitude and Longitude Supplemental Type Certifications, Starlink is now available on 14 platforms across aviation's product portfolio. On the defense side, aviation announced a partnership with Leonardo to launch the Beechcraft M346N as a solution for the United States Navy Undergraduate Jet Training System competition. Throughout the quarter, aviation participated in a nationwide demo tour to highlight the capabilities of this aircraft. At Bell, increased revenues were driven by higher military volume, reflecting the continued ramp and acceleration of the MD-75 program. In the quarter, Bell exceeded their 90% engineering release milestone, enabling continued fabrication and procurement activity for the prototype aircraft. Fabrication and assembly work on the program is continuing across numerous sites, including wing assembly at our Amarillo, Texas site, fuselage assembly at our Wichita, Kansas site, in addition to ongoing fabrication of critical rotor and drive system components in our Fort Worth operations. On the commercial side of Bell, we delivered 30 helicopters down from 44 in last year's third quarter. Bell continues to see strong demand across its commercial product portfolio. Bell announced a purchase agreement on global medical response for seven 429s and an option for eight additional helicopters with deliveries expected to begin in 2026. Moving to systems, revenues were up as compared to last year. During the quarter, systems received new contract awards for several programs, leading to an increase in backlog of about $1 billion in the quarters. These awards included ATAC awards for both the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps, a new contract award for the U.S. Army to provide 65 mobile strike force vehicles in support of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, and increased quantities for the ship-to-shore connector program. In the weapons business, systems completed delivery of the first production lot of XM-204 anti-vehicle terrain-shaping systems to the U.S. Army in support of operations in Europe. Moving to industrial, we saw a low of revenues reflecting the divestiture of the power sports business. At eAviation, we continued to make progress on several of our core development efforts. The team completed the hover flight test envelope for the Nuva V300 and set the stage for Air Vehicle 2 to enter the flight test program. As disclosed in our 8K filing, Textron will be eliminating the Textron eAviation segment as a separate reporting segment, realigning the eAviation business activities across Textron eAviation and Textron systems to leverage our existing sales and business development capabilities. This change will be effective at the beginning of fiscal year 2026. With that, I'll turn the call over to David.

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David Rosenberg
Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Scott, and good morning, everyone. Let's review how each of the segments contributed, starting with Textron Aviation. Revenues at Textron Aviation of $1.5 billion were up 10%, or $138 million from the third quarter of 2024, reflecting higher aircraft revenues of $116 million and higher aftermarket parts and service revenues of $22 million. The increase in aircraft revenues were largely due to higher volume and mix, which included higher citation jet and commercial turboprop volume, partially offset by lower defense volume. Segment profit was $179 million in the third quarter, up 40% or $51 million from a year ago, largely due to higher volume and mix. Backlog in the segment ended the quarter at $7.7 billion. Moving to Bell, revenues were $1 billion, up 10%, or $97 million from the third quarter of 2024. The revenue increase was driven by higher military revenues of $128 million, primarily due to higher volume from the U.S. Army's MB75 program, partially offset by lower commercial volume of $31 million. Segment profit of $92 million was down $6 million from last year's third quarter. Backlog in the segment ended the quarter at $8.2 billion, an increase of $1.3 billion from the prior quarter, primarily reflecting the award for the prototype testing and evaluation phase of the MB75 program. At Textron System, revenues were $307 million, up 2% or $6 million from last year's third quarter, which included higher volume on the ship-to-shore connector program. Segment profit of $52 million was up $13 million, compared with the third quarter of 2024, largely due to a gain resulting from the early termination of a vendor contract. Backlog in the segment ended the quarter at $3.2 billion, an increase of $980 million from the prior quarter, reflecting new contract awards for the ship-to-shore connector, land vehicles, and the adversary air business. Industrial revenues were $761 million, down $79 million from last year's third quarter, driven by Techstar on specialized vehicles. This reflects $88 million in lower revenues related to the divestiture of the power sports business. Segment profit of $31 million was down $1 million from the third quarter of 2024. Textron e-aviation segment revenues were $5 million in the third quarter of 2025 as compared to $6 million in last year's third quarter. And segment loss was $15 million as compared with a segment loss of $18 million in the third quarter of 2024. Finance segment revenues were $26 million and profit was $18 million in the third quarter of 2025 as compared to segment revenues of $12 million and profit of $5 million in the third quarter of 2024. The increase in revenues in segment profit was largely due to gains on the disposition of non-captive assets. Moving below segment profit, corporate expense were $26 million, net interest expense for the manufacturing group was $26 million, LIFO inventory provision was $48 million, intangible asset amortization was $8 million, and the non-service components of pension and post-retirement income were $67 million. As expected, our adjusted effective tax rate for the third quarter of 2025 was 25.5%, largely reflecting the impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. We now expect our full-year adjusted effective tax rate to be approximately 21%. During the quarter, we repurchased approximately 2.6 million shares, returning $206 million in cash to shareholders. Year-to-date, we have repurchased approximately 8.4 million shares, returning $635 million to shareholders. To wrap up with guidance, we are reiterating our expected full year adjusted earnings per share to be in the range of $6 to $6.20 and maintaining our expected full year manufacturing cash flow before pension contributions to be in the range of $900 million to $1 billion. That concludes our prepared remarks, so operator, we can open the line for questions.

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Rob
Conference Operator

Thank you, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, we will begin the question and answer session. If you have a question, please press star 1 in your telephone keypad. If you find your question has already been asked and you would like to be removed from the queue, you may press star one again. One moment, please, for the first question. And your first question today comes from the line of Peter Arment from Baird. Your line is open.

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Peter Arment
Analyst, Baird

Yeah, hey, thanks. Good morning, Scott, Dave. Congratulations, Scott. Appreciate all the help over the years. Hey, on the MV-75, could you give us, there was an announcement by the Army here recently regarding accelerating the fielding of the Version 2, just how that would impact, you know, any cost profile or does it change anything?

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

It won't change anything in the near term, Peter. I mean, obviously, part of the strategy on the program, which has been there all along, was to start with a very basic aircraft, you know, and, you know, focus on the critical parameters around speed and range and, you know, basic air structure. But as you know, part of the incorporation of MOSA in terms of the architecture of this aircraft allows you to do that and then, you know, build out variants and derivatives and capabilities and different variants going forward. So, you know, our focus obviously right now is very much around the acceleration, getting the first prototype aircraft going. You know, those will be the, you know, the first variant. So, but there's already a lot of work clearly going on in the Army around what future capabilities they'll want to put on the aircraft, but that's enabled by the MOSA architecture. So it doesn't affect or impact the work that's going on around the basic aircraft today.

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Peter Arment
Analyst, Baird

That's helpful. Thanks for that. And then just a quick one on just on aviation. You talked about the demand remains strong. Just maybe any highlights you would call out just regarding whether it's regionally or just in general on the jet market?

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

It's really across the whole portfolio, Peter. We continue to see strong retail demand. People are flying. The end market industry remains robust, I would say, everywhere that we see it. The performance of the business is improving, obviously, as we talked about every quarter, improving margins. We had a lot of certification activity in the quarter. We would have originally planned probably to get the M2, the CJ3, and the Ascend in Q3, it's turned out, of course, we now have the M2 and the CJ3, but those happened right at the beginning of Q4. And Ascend, we should have wrapped up here by the end of the month. The FAA, despite the shutdown, is supporting us in that effort, which is great. So I think the market is strong. Our product portfolio is in a good place. So we feel pretty good about where things are.

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Peter Arment
Analyst, Baird

Appreciate it, Digo. Thanks, Scott.

speaker
Rob
Conference Operator

Your next question comes from a line of Sheila from Jefferies. Your line is open.

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Sheila
Analyst, Jefferies

Good morning. Congratulations, Scott, on a great run and promoting both Dave and Lisa internally. I think that says a lot. Maybe if I could follow up on the MD75 question, if that's okay for Peter. Can you provide additional color on like where would that be on the program? You completed 215 flight hours. I think you're scheduled to deliver six test articles over the next year and a half. What happens from there with the Army, and how do we think about a contract being signed on?

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Sure. So, I mean, the current program, it's actually, Michelle, it's a good question. I think there are some misunderstandings about this program and sort of where it is and what's going on. You know, I've heard a lot of people say, hey, is this going to be one of these programs as we've seen with a lot of defense contractors around these big fixed price programs. We're familiar with those. We had that, as you know, on Ship to Shore Connector. It's a healthy program today, but went through a very difficult phase given the nature of the fixed price development and production at the beginning. As you know, we don't have that. This is a very large program, obviously. It's mostly cost plus development. There are some fixed price elements. We've already put the fixed price LUT aircraft into our program estimates to complete. We will at some point add the LRIP 8 once that is exercised by the government. But I think that the program as it's laid out today covers all of that development, which is largely cost plus. It does have LUT as a fixed price. It does have LRIP as a fixed price. And that's kind of where the current program stops. So the discussions around acceleration are really bringing forward that LRIP. We collectively with the Army believe this is something that we can do with low risk. That's in part by, as you referenced, the fact that we flew some 300 hours on the V-280. The team is already building a lot of the key components and fabrications, getting ready to build the prototype test aircraft. There will be six of those and then the two LUTs. So the risk of bringing that LRIP in rather than having a big gap is pretty minimal. Keep in mind that that first LRIP aircraft is really sort of serial number 10, if you count the initial V280 plus the six EMDs, which are cost plus, and then those first two LUTs that are fixed price. So I think the team is doing a great job on executing. Obviously, we work very, very closely with the Army on the acceleration process. It's going very well. We're building wings. We're building fuselages. We're building gearboxes. It's all It's all going quite well. And, again, I think there is a little bit of a misconception around how this works. It is a big performance obligation. We will, as you guys saw last year when we did the LUTs and added those to the mix, we took our booking rate down, and that will result in a cube catch. It did result in a cube catch that was a bad guy. On the other hand, this quarter, they exercised one of the large clins for the cost plus side. We actually increased our booking rate and took a modest – Kim catch good guy. So this is something to expect through the course of the program, but unlike these big fixed price development, fixed priced, you know, production programs, you know, we certainly don't, you know, see this thing entering into lost territory. It will continue to book a little margin, which we've said from the beginning, but I think we're, you know, again, in a pretty good place and it's a, it's a program I think that's executed well and obviously is, you know, hugely important to the future of the company.

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Sheila
Analyst, Jefferies

Thanks for the additional color. I'll leave it there.

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Rob
Conference Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Gavin Parsons from UBS. Your line is open.

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Joao Santos
Analyst, UBS

Hi, this is Joao Santos on behalf of Gavin Parsons. Good morning. Thank you for taking my question. You have talked before about improving aviation profitability. What is the long-term margin targeted you are aiming for, and what are the main levers to get there? It's volume, pricing, or more of a mix?

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Well, I mean, obviously these dynamics are different in each one of the businesses, but, you know, generally speaking across all of our product lines, we have good gross margins. So, you know, the biggest lever is around volume and what that does in terms of conversion to the bottom line in terms of performance. So that's, you know, most of the investments that we make around product are around making sure that we have products that have high demand and can command, you know, good volume and obviously solid pricing, which again, we've seen that in the last,

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Joao Santos
Analyst, UBS

know a number of years where we've had very positive uh price feedback as well great and any aviation bookings have have been fairly steady each quarter this year even through the 2q uh tariff uncertainty do you think long lead times are holding back new orders and if production ramps could that actually drive bookings higher

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Well, look, there is some connection between these. There's no doubt if you get too far out in timeline that it's difficult for people to make that commitment. But as you said, look, I think that the market demand remains strong. It has been pretty steady. We've guided a one-to-one book to bill through the course of the year. I still feel good about that. And certainly we do have plans where you'll see incremental volume in 2026 as opposed to 2025. So we're not obviously quite ready to guide. 2026 here, but we certainly expect, you know, as manufacturing continues to ramp, we will see, you know, additional output in terms of the number of aircraft.

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Rob
Conference Operator

Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Robert Stollard from Vertical Research. Your line is open.

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Robert Stollard
Analyst, Vertical Research

Thanks so much. Good morning. Morning, Robert. Congratulations, Scott, on the move up. But our first question is actually in relation to that and how You and Lisa expect to divide the role going forward because you will be executive chairman.

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Sure, Robert. Look, I mean, this is, I think, a fairly standard transition, you know, in our business. I've been working with Lisa for a very long time, you know, in her capacity and, you know, key program jobs. She worked for me directly for the last eight years running the systems business and then the bell business. So, you know, I want to be really clear. She becomes the president and CEO. She's running the company. You know, that's, And she was ready to do that, by the way. So, you know, I'll be there to, you know, help with some of the processes that just haven't gone through, you know, around regulatory stuff and, you know, closing out the year and things like that. But I fully expect she's ready to run the company and she'll start doing that on January 4th. And I'll be there to help and do whatever it is that she needs me to do and obviously, you know, run the board. But I think it'll be a normal transition. I expect it'll be very, very smooth. Again, we've been working together for a very long time. So I'll be around, but no one should have any questions. She's going to be running the company.

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Robert Stollard
Analyst, Vertical Research

Okay, and then as a follow-up on aviation, we've seen some recent signs of bizjet activity actually picking up in terms of year-on-year growth. Are you starting to see this flow through in terms of your aftermarket activity?

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, we had a good quarter on the aftermarket side. There's no doubt utilization is strong. People are flying, which is a great indicator. Obviously, it's really important in terms of helping to continue to drive growth in the aftermarket. side of the business. But I think it also bodes well just for, you know, demand for aircraft, which, again, we're seeing. You know, the retail, the level of interest, inquiries, you know, orders, bookings, you know, remain strong. So I think the industry right now probably is as healthy as we've ever seen it.

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Robert Stollard
Analyst, Vertical Research

Okay, that's great. Thank you very much.

speaker
Rob
Conference Operator

Your next question comes from a line of Miles Walton from Wolf Research. Your line is open.

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Miles Walton
Analyst, Wolf Research

thanks uh good morning and congrats scott on the retirement um or move to executive chairman you're not retired yet the um you got work to do um on the aviation side can you uh comment on the supply chain and how that's coming along and whether or not that's an impediment to hitting the uh the 6.1 billion rev placeholder um within the forecast uh well look i mean there are

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

there are still supply chain issues as we've kind of talked about. It's not, it's not as many, you know, part numbers, for instance, as it used to be, but there are still some critical suppliers that are struggling and yes, it does impact us on, on different models at different times. It continues to create a little more, you know, problem in just production efficiencies and, you know, flow doing out of station work. Again, it's not as bad as it was. And so we are seeing, you know, improvements in that area. But there's some critical things that are, you know, sort of a little bit of hand-to-mouth and, you know, that we keep a close eye on with a relatively small number of suppliers, you know, but they're critical suppliers. So, you know, again, overall, it's improved, but it's one that we, you know, I mean, the team works this stuff every day. There are still some problem children out there, and that's, you know, that's been sort of the nature of where we are. But just to be clear, I think everything we look at today, getting to that 6.1, we clearly feel good about our path to get there.

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Miles Walton
Analyst, Wolf Research

Okay, great. And then just to follow up on systems, great bookings. Is this the point of inflection for growth after a long time of relatively flat revenue?

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, look, I think so. The bookings were very strong. You guys know we started the year with a bit of a challenge with things like RCV and FTUS. getting restructured and changed. I do still think there's opportunities there in our participation in those kinds of programs. There's a lot of interest in a lot of the technology we developed around FTOS, and so that stuff will play out. But for sure, what you're seeing, despite not getting those bookings, the growth in the rest of the business has kind of overcome that. Our ATAC business is just doing great. Those guys are performing really, really well. They've won a ton of new You know, programs, ship to shore continues to grow. And as I said earlier with Sheila, the program is healthy. Volumes are there. The team's executing really well. We continue to see growth, you know, in the Sentinel program. So I think, you know, when you look across that business, you know, despite some of the challenges around a couple of those programs, it's good growth. And absolutely, we feel good about sort of that inflection point you refer to. You know, this business has been executing, performing really, really well for a number of years. The only thing it's lacked, as you guys know, is growth. And I do think we're hitting that inflection point where we'll start to see it growing here as we go forward.

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Miles Walton
Analyst, Wolf Research

All right. Great. Thanks.

speaker
Rob
Conference Operator

Your next question comes from a line of Seth Seifman from JP Morgan. Your line is open.

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Hey, Seth, you might be on mute.

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Seth Seifman
Analyst, J.P. Morgan

Yeah, thanks. Good morning. And yeah, congratulations, Scott. Just wanted to ask, starting off about aviation and, you know, you just spoke to kind of the revenue. When we think about the margin, it's a pretty significant uptick in profitability in the fourth quarter. And kind of what what enables that?

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, I mean, look, I think as we've talked about stuff, we expected to see a progression, you know, as we go through the course of the year. The fourth quarter will be strong on the volume side, which it normally is. I think, you know, we, you know, I mean, there are still, you know, challenges, but the team is, you know, performing better and better every quarter around getting flow. And largely, you know, we'll see a nice significant pump in volume in the quarter, and that will drive good margin with it.

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Seth Seifman
Analyst, J.P. Morgan

All right. Okay. Okay. Excellent. And then maybe one more on MV75. When we think about... the LRIP units and bringing those forward, are there kind of additional contractual provisions that you can get to protect the company from concurrency risk?

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Well, so the LRIP have always been laid in there, so I don't think there's anything that would change contractually on that. You know, to be honest, we're not that worried about the risk of that. Again, the base configuration of the aircraft is really solid. Obviously, it's a derivative off of what we did on V-280. There are changes, but we know what those are. We are fabricating right now the first of the prototype aircraft. So, again, by the time we are building that first LRIP aircraft, we will have built, obviously, the original V-280, but we will have built eight aircraft, the six EMD aircraft and the two LUT aircraft. And you know, certainly there's an enormous amount of ground testing, component level testing, you know, stuff that's, you know, we already are fabricating and building parts. So, you know, I think we feel very good about the things we need to learn, any issues that we run into, you know, we're going to run into here on these initial EMD aircraft long before we get to where we're building that first LRIP aircraft.

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Seth Seifman
Analyst, J.P. Morgan

Great. Thanks. That's very helpful.

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Rob
Conference Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Ron Epstein from Bank of America. Your line is open.

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Ron Epstein
Analyst, Bank of America Securities

Hey, good morning, guys. Yeah, maybe just circling back on systems. How's the unmanned portfolio doing when you look across the, you've got unmanned land system stuff and shadow and aerosols and some other stuff. You've seen such kind of surging demand for unmanned stuff. Just curious. How that's going for you guys, and do you have anything in the pipeline that you're working on developing to kind of expand in that market?

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

So I would say that, you know, Ron, the aerosol program is going well, right? You know, we went through a bit of a challenge as Afghanistan came out. We had a lot of aircraft that were deployed over there. Those have largely been redeployed to other theaters, other applications, a lot of marine aircraft. applications, so that business is doing very well. That is where, you know, the next significant tranche really was going to be around FTOS. With that program not happening, at least in the way it was envisioned, you know, that was a hit. But look, the reality is, you know, these brigades need ISR. And so what really changed on FTOS is the chief, understandably frustrated over how long it was taking to get stuff out there, has basically said, look, you got to take these systems you know, directly to the brigades and they'll drive that demand. So that's what we're doing right now. And that's why I say, while FTUS didn't happen as a program, I do think that we will see a number of opportunities as we go out and, you know, sell that technology directly out to the warfighters. So there's also been some international opportunities. There's things out there with Customs and Border Patrol. So you know, in terms of our core platform today from Aeroson and then transitioning into what was basically the FTES configuration, I believe we're going to start to see some nice growth in there. In terms of new platforms under development, part of what we did with the e-aviation segment is, you know, that team in Pipistrel has been developing this unmanned cargo aircraft, what we call the Nuva 300. That's now into flight test. We've already done the flight testing on Article 1. We're about to do the final build out on Article 2, which has our own flight control, fly-by-wire systems and such. And so part of the change here in the segment is that our Textron Systems business, which has always been the developer and sort of leading the business development on Aerosond and Shadow and those other unmanned platforms, will basically have the responsibility to take that kind of product to market. And so it's the Nuva unmanned cargo. We also have a nice niche that Pipistrel has for a long time and in high-altitude unmanned, you know, sort of long-duration surveillance products. You know, that's a product we already have today. We have some new developments in process there for very long-duration aircraft. And, again, those will now start to largely go to market through our Textron Systems business, augmenting our strength in unmanned aircraft.

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Ron Epstein
Analyst, Bank of America Securities

Got it, got it. Yeah, thank you very much.

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Sure.

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Rob
Conference Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Christine Lewag from Morgan Stanley. Your line is open.

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Christine Lewag
Analyst, Morgan Stanley

Hey, good morning, everyone. And Scott, you know, congrats on your next chapter. I guess, you know, over the years, there's always been discussions and conversations with you about the broader Textron portfolio and if it should all belong together or if there are other ways to unlock shareholder value. At this point, all reporting segments are fairly stable. The balance sheet is very strong. and the company generates solid free cash flow. I wanted to check with you to see if this management change also signals a re-evaluation of the portfolio once again, and how you think about it now.

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Well, I don't know that we would say that the change is drive that. I do think we are always looking at the portfolio. I think to your point, we don't have a burning platform, but would we look at either... Disposing, requiring, of course we would. So, you know, that's a process that has been, you know, ongoing, you know, for some time. Obviously, you know, we just did the dispositions around the power sports business earlier this year. That was something we thought we really needed to do and wanted to do to help, you know, position the company going forward. But we continue to look at, you know, other opportunities, and I expect we'll continue to do that, you know, regardless of the leadership change.

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Christine Lewag
Analyst, Morgan Stanley

Great. Thanks, Scott.

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Rob
Conference Operator

Sure. Your next question comes from the line of Doug Harned from Bernstein. Your line is open.

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Doug Harned
Analyst, Bernstein

Good morning. Thank you. If you look at the mix of deliveries across business jets, it's been pretty stable over the last two years. I mean, I would have expected more of a shift toward the latitude and longitude, although that might have been an incorrect assumption. Are you seeing demand shifts across your portfolio? Is the mix in there constrained more by where demand is or where your capacity is?

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Look, it is right now probably more of a capacity issue. I would say in terms of the end market demand, it has been steady. The demand, or whether it's a longitude, a latitude, whatever, has been pretty stable. These things are often influenced by you know, new products. So I would say, for instance, when we launched the new CJ4, you know, Gen 2, we saw a very strong, you know, spike in order activity, which kind of puts that lead time, you know, well out there because people were pretty excited in that piece of the market about that product. We've seen the same thing with things like the CJ3 Gen 2s, certainly the Ascend. So, you know, there's, I would say the end market is stable. Demand is pretty strong across all the pieces of the product portfolio, usually you see some of these spikes of order activity demand that can be affected by the launch of new product, which we've had quite a bit.

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Doug Harned
Analyst, Bernstein

Yeah, and then when you look, you've talked a little bit today about the strength of the demand environment, but if you look back to the beginning of the year and then where you are today, how would you characterize demand mix in terms of corporate versus high net worth individuals? Have you seen any shifts there? Because obviously there's been a lot of, it's been a very dynamic sort of economic outlook over the last nine months.

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Scott Donnelly
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, it's actually pretty remarkable. Despite all of the noise, of which there's plenty for sure, you know, we're not seeing it impact that market. We haven't seen any piece or segment or interest that has changed because of what's going on. And I think part of that is the fact that you're out there whether it's 18 months or two years, people are kind of looking beyond what current noise is in the marketplace because they're not going to take delivery of that new aircraft for 18 months or so. So I think it's had a little bit of a muting effect on that. But, yeah, remarkably, despite all of the noise that's going around, the demand is stable. Very good. Thank you.

speaker
Rob
Conference Operator

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