No, I meant to post the giving of the military airplane contract away to a foreign government, and it was an air bus..
WASHINGTON: The parent company of European aircraft maker Airbus said Wednesday that it selected Mobile, Alabama, over three other Southern sites for a $600 million (?495 million) factory to build refueling tankers.
The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. selected the Alabama site over three rival bids from Melbourne, Florida; Kiln, Mississippi; and North Charleston, South Carolina.
|Ralph D. Crosby, chairman and CEO of EADS North America, said Mobile was chosen because it is "strategically located" on the Gulf of Mexico, and offers a skilled workforce, airport runways and a deep-water port. Brookley Industrial Complex provides 4.5 million square feet (405,000 square meters) of industrial space, and includes access to the Mobile downtown airport.
An Airbus engineering center will be built nearby and is expected to open in 2006, the company said. |
