Airbus Investment in Mobile Surpasses $1 Billion

Monday, January 13, 2020 at 09:20 PM ET

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Artist’s rendering of an Airbus A321neo (new engine option) with CFM International’s LEAP-1A engines. Airbus

Key Takeaways:

As part of a plan to produce 63 A320 family aircraft per month in 2021, Airbus announced that the company will expand its footprint in the U.S. by increasing the production rate of aircraft at its Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility in Mobile, Alabama, to seven per month by the beginning of next year. This increase, and continued recruiting for the A220 manufacturing team, will result in a further 275 jobs added at the Alabama-based facility over the next year.

Dan Pimentel

Dan Pimentel is an instrument-rated private pilot and former airplane owner who has been flying since 1996. As an aviation journalist and photographer, he has covered all aspects of the general and business aviation communities for a long list of major aviation magazines, newspapers and websites. He has never met a flying machine that he didn’t like, and has written about his love of aviation for years on his Airplanista blog. For 10 years until 2019, he hosted the popular ‘Oshbash’ social media meetup events at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.