Bethpage NY (SPX) May 18, 2009 – In the blue skies over St. Augustine, Fla., Northrop Grumman’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye System Development and Demonstration program aircraft recently reached its 1,000th hour of flight testing. The aircraft, currently in flight testing at Northrop Grumman’s East Coast Manufacturing and Flight Test Center, continues to successfully meet, or exceed, all major program and performance milestones.