-BOEING: First Boeing MD 600N helicopter for U.S. Border Patrol makes debut

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M2 PRESSWIRE-10 August 1998-BOEING: First Boeing MD 600N helicopter for U.S. Border Patrol makes debut (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:070898 The first of 45 Boeing MD 600N helicopters for the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is about to make a run for the border, literally.

The versatile law enforcement MD 600N was unveiled today at the U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego sector headquarters. Over the next several years, the advanced technology MD 600N, produced by The Boeing Company in Mesa, Ariz., will be assigned to U.S. Border Patrol operating sectors between San Diego and Miami, Fla., as the beginning of the INS Fleet Replacement Program for its fleet of OH-6A helicopters. The larger, more powerful MD 600N helicopters give U.S....