Boeing has completed its $8.3 billion acquisition of Spirit AeroSystems' commercial and aftermarket operations, reintegrating key manufacturing sites and approximately 15,000 employees to enhance production and quality control.
Spirit's legacy defense operations will be reorganized as Spirit Defense, functioning as a non-integrated subsidiary of Boeing Defense, Space, and Security.
Concurrently, due to U.S. regulatory requirements, Airbus acquired Spirit assets that produced components for its aircraft, including sites in Kinston, Saint-Nazaire, Casablanca, and parts of Prestwick and Belfast.
The company said Monday that it now owns all of Spirit’s Boeing-related commercial operations, including sites that make fuselages for the 737 program and major structures for the 767, 777, and 787. It also took over fuselage assembly for the P-8 and KC-46.
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Zach Vasile is a writer and editor covering news in all aspects of aviation. He has reported for and contributed to the Manchester Journal Inquirer, the Hartford Business Journal, the Charlotte Observer, and the Washington Examiner, with his area of focus being the intersection of business and government policy.
