Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility
Flight Works Alabama, a new aerospace exhibition and education center, is now open in Mobile, as the result of cooperation between the Airbus Foundation, the state of Alabama and other educational partners and commercial sponsors. The Alabama News Center reports: Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said the facility is an investment […]
Over the last century, Alabama’s aerospace industry has grown larger and more diverse, from aviation, defense, space and beyond. And thanks to companies like Airbus, foreign investors are coming to Mobile to explore the many options the area has to offer. FDI Intelligence recently reported: “Alabama has a lot to offer […]
A team of South Alabama’s largest industrial employers have adjusted manufacturing efforts from delivering global goods to producing local medical supplies amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Global manufacturing companies Austal USA, Airbus, and AM/NS Calvert, all with operations in Mobile, Ala., diverted part of their core manufacturing operations to produce medical […]
While Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury acknowledges that the coronavirus pandemic is the “gravest crisis” for the aerospace industry and that Airbus will have to “right-size” business operations in general, we are proud to say that we have no intention of closing Mobile – it has been and remains a strategic part […]
You might not think of them as “aircraft carriers”, but that’s what the Airbus ships do as they carry aircraft parts around the world, including to the Mobile Final Assembly line here in Mobile. SimpleFlying.com reports: The Mobile Express crosses the Atlantic Ocean once per month, carrying major A320 Family […]
At the 2020 Singapore Air Show, Airbus unveiled an innovative new design for a blended wing aircraft that could significantly reduce fuel consumption. The MAVERIC (model aircraft for validation and experimentation of robust innovative controls) is a blended-wing body airplane. Wired Magazine reports: As the name suggests, the triangular Maveric blurs […]
In the global trade wars, American airlines are deliberately seeking out planes manufactured at Airbus’s U.S. plant, in Mobile, Alabama, where they will pay no tariffs. Bloomberg reports: American Airlines Group Inc. is “doing everything we can to talk to Airbus to try to get [jets] out of Mobile … instead of Hamburg,” […]
Boeing’s 737 is no longer the world’s most popular airplane. The Airbus 320 family has officially received more orders, despite its relative newcomer status to the world of aviation. Business Insider reports: Through the end of October, Boeing had recorded 15,136 orders for 737 models, including all generations of the […]
Team Mobile helped to host and sponsor the annual Girls in Aviation Day event at the AIDT training center near our Final Assembly Line, for our third year of taking part in this inspirational event. Airbus partnered with the Association for Women in Aviation Maintenance (AWAM) Gulf Coast Chapter 22 to create exciting […]
If Brookley Field, home of the Airbus Engineering Center and the A220/A320 production facility in Mobile, looks a little cleaner, all thanks go to the Team Mobile members and their friends and families who came out for the 32nd annual Alabama Coastal Cleanup on September 21. Arlington Park and Brookley […]
