Textron Bell reports revenues up 10%YoY

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Textron has reported an increase of 10% year-over-year in third-quarter revenues of its Bell segment owing to higher contribution from military services.

“In the quarter, we saw revenue growth in both our commercial aircraft and helicopter businesses, as well as in Bell’s FLRAA programme, now known as the MV-75,” said the Textron chairman and CEO Scott C Donnelly. “At Textron Aviation, operations continued to improve as production ramped.”

Bell revenues clocked in at $1bn – $97m more than same period of last year. It is worth mentioning  that the growth significantly depressed especially in the context of lower base in 2024 owing to strikes affecting production.

“The revenue increase in the quarter was driven by higher military revenues of $128m, primarily due to higher volume from the US Army’s MV-75 programme, partially offset by lower commercial revenues of $31m, primarily due to volume,” the company said in its earnings release.

Deliveries during the collapsed as well as commercial units dropped to 30 during the third quarter from 44 in the same period of last year.

Bell’s backlog ended the third quarter at $8.2bn, an increase of $1.3bn from the prior quarter but driven by the award for prototype testing and evaluation phase of the MV-75 programme.

The performance was relatively better on a cumulative basis as the company reported has so far during the first nine months of 2025 seen 25%YoY growth in revenues to $3bn. However, during the same period, segment profits have stayed flat at $262m – an uptick of $2m from last year’s $260m.

The company also named Bell segment CEO Lisa Atherton as the company’s president and CEO effective from January 4th, 2026.