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Airbus: $600 million, 1,000 jobs

   July 1, 2012

Mobile Press Register reports Airbus has approved plans to construct an aircraft assembly plant in Mobile, a $600 million investment at the Brookley Aeroplex that will assemble A319, A320 and A321 aircraft and employ 1,000 full-time workers at full capacity.

More than half of that capital investment is slated for construction, which will commence in 2013 and create an estimated 2,500 jobs over a two-year construction phase. The balance of the money is budgeted for tools, machinery, infrastructure and training,

Aircraft assembly is scheduled to begin in 2015, with first deliveries from the Mobile plant in 2016. Airbus anticipates the plant will produce 40 to 50 aircraft per year by 2017.

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