Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator's Instructions). Your first question comes from Troy Lahr – Stifel Nicolaus.
Troy Lahr – Stifel Nicolaus & Company
Just two questions on backlog, can you run through and just kind of give us an update on the Carson Helicopter backlog? Its looks like that's kind of been down about three quarters in a row now sequentially. Should that start ramping up soon again?
Anthony Reardon
Troy, this is Tony Reardon. With the Carson backlog, what's actually happening there is got a pretty solid backlog on the commercial and we're working through a development program on the military helicopter blades, and I think I've talked about that in the past. We have development program that we're working on for the presidential helicopter and we're into the final phases of that development program. We actually have three spires that we're delivering on this quarter.
So we would anticipate an additional follow-on order late to first quarter of next year or early the second quarter, which will bolster that backlog. So I think we're in pretty solid shape going forward, we're waiting for the military portion to pickup.
Troy Lahr – Stifel Nicolaus & Company
Can you help me understand the backlog for the Boeing 737? It looks like that backlog was up pretty significantly. I think about 10% yet Boeing's backlog was up on, I think it maybe was actually down about 1%. Why is a significant change quarter-over-quarter on the 737 backlog?
Anthony Reardon
Well, we picked up an additional order from Spirit on our work in Parsons, Kansas, which picks up some of the offload work that they had. Also what Boeing is now doing Troy, is they're releasing quarter-over-quarter as opposed to we use to have a lumpy release on the 737 and we'd get a large order towards the end of the year.
Now what they're doing is they'll be releasing at the end of this quarter for the fourth quarter and maybe the first quarter or next year. So instead of having one release a year they're going to quarter-over-quarter releases, so the backlog has grown a lot bit and we expect that to continue.
Troy Lahr – Stifel Nicolaus & Company
Was it a significant amount of work you picked up from Spirit? So your dollar content is ramping up or has had increased on the –
Anthony Reardon
It was actually just a follow-on order. It was actually just a follow-on order.
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