The V-22 Osprey is a joint service multi-role combat aircraft utilizing tiltrotor technology to combine the vertical performance of a helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed wing aircraft.

With the V-22 engine nacelles and rotors in vertical position, it can take off, land and hover like a helicopter. Once airborne, the V-22 engine nacelles can be rotated to convert the aircraft to a turboprop airplane capable of high-speed, high-altitude flight.

Boeing is responsible for the V-22 Osprey fuselage and all subsystems, digital avionics, and fly-by-wire flight-control systems.

Boeing partner Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., is responsible for the V-22 wing, transmissions, empennage, rotor systems and engine installation at its completion facility in Amarillo, Texas.