Airbus coming to Mobile

NY Times just reported that Airbus, the European plane maker, announced today that it plans to build its first assembly line in the United States in Mobile, Ala.The plan calls for an investment of several hundred million dollars in a plant could eventually assemble dozens of Airbus’s popular 150-seat A320 jets each year. Read more.

Let’s hope we can get some spin-offs from Airbus suppliers and vendors.

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Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”