Boeing to Lead Embraer KC-390 Plane Sales Effort to Pentagon

Boeing Co. is to lead sales of Embraer SA’s new KC-390 military transport planes in the U.S., the world’s largest defense market, and some other countries as the planemakers expand their partnership on the jet.

Boeing will also be in charge of sales efforts in the U.K. and some Middle East countries, Luiz Carlos Aguiar, head of Embraer’s defense business, said today at the Paris Air Show. The jet will vie for a market of more than 700 planes, he said.