Mobile Alabama new Airbus A220/CSeries Final Assembly facilty
Airbus A220 (CSeries) assembly line project gaining momentum in Alabama
MOBILE, Alabama – On the campus of Airbus' Alabama manufacturing facility, construction crews are completing the early phases of a project that represents the next chapter of the aerospace company's U.S. growth plans.
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June 18, 2019 - by Jerry Underwood for madeinalabama.com
Work on the A220 aircraft assembly line in Mobile is moving forward rapidly, just months after high-ranking Airbus executives joined state and local leaders at an official groundbreaking ceremony at the site.
"We are well into construction," said Greg Ellis, vice president for program development at HPM, the Birmingham-based firm overseeing the project. "The site is full of tower cranes and tons of yellow equipment. It looks like ants on a hill right at the moment."
For HPM, the new project is a déjà vu moment. The firm oversaw the construction of Airbus' A320 Family manufacturing facility at the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley industrial park, a $600 million investment that gave the aircraft maker its first U.S.-based commercial aircraft assembly site.
Airbus A220/CSeries new facility construction is progressionsource: HPM
The facility now being built on the Mobile campus is also strategically significant as it will allow Airbus to produce a second aircraft type in Alabama — the single-aisle A220 passenger jet...