Five trends lifting Alabama’s aerospace industry into new era
Alabama’s aerospace industry has already flown to the moon with the Saturn V rocket. Now, it’s ready for a new set of missions that will keep this critical sector of Alabama’s economy soaring in revolutionary ways. With aviation and aerospace officials from around the globe gathering at next week’s Paris Air Show, it’s time to…
In Kaiser hangar complex, Birmingham sees aerospace potential
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Economic developers think a sprawling hangar complex just off the main runway at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport can help Alabama’s largest city make a return flight to an aviation sector that’s taking off in the region. The 1.8 million-square-foot complex, last operated by Kaiser Aircraft Industries, stands on 180 acres just off…
Top economic developer to lead Alabama Paris Air Show mission
MONTGOMERY, Alabama – Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield is leading an Alabama delegation to next week’s 2015 Paris Air Show as part of a strategic, team-focused effort to build on the state’s increasingly prominent position in the global aerospace and aviation sector. The Alabama team arrives at the industry’s most important business-development and trade show just…
Alabama aerospace companies position for unmanned aerial systems market growth
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have proven themselves in war. Now, researchers and companies, including some in Alabama, are working to find commercial applications. Drones, as they are often called, have been on display at this week’s Paris Air Show. The U.S. military has used the pilotless craft in a number of foreign…
Alabamians work to land orders for micro propulsion system at Paris Air Show
PARIS, France — Alabamians Brad Caban, president of Aero-mark aerospace manufacturing and maintenance, and Brent Trotter, chief engineer at the company’s Fairhope division called Amro, arrived at the Charles de Gaulle Airport Sunday with their Paris Air Show display in tow. It fit into a small black box about the size of bowling ball. Caban…
NASA, Alabama aerospace hub developing SLS, most powerful rocket for space
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Airbus’ passenger jet production center will launch Alabama into the commercial jet manufacturing business in 2015. But an Alabama aerospace hub has long played a critical role in a different kind of flight – space travel. More than four decades after going to the moon with the Alabama-designed Saturn V rocket, NASA is…
Boeing Alabama operations take aim at missile threats, help develop Mars rocket
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Boeing Co.’s commercial jet business has racked up billion-dollar orders at the Paris Air Show this week. The company’s Alabama operations are concentrating on different tasks – making a rocket powerful enough to get man to Mars and defending against enemy missile threats. A lot has changed in the 51 years since…
Airbus announces orders for A320 family, shows off new innovations in Paris
PARIS, France — Governor Robert Bentley as well as representatives from Mobile and Baldwin Counties and the Mobile Airport Authority all held meetings with various executives at Airbus this week at the Paris Air Show. Those meetings were largely focused on ongoing plans for the Airbus final assembly line at Mobile Brookley Aeroplex, which will produce…
Alabama’s successes so far this year at the Paris Air Show
As lunchtime approaches in the U.S., business is beginning to wrap up on the third day the 2013 Paris Air Show. With dozens of meetings complete, Alabama Secretary of Commerce Greg Canfield highlighted three major successes for Alabama at this year’s international aerospace trade event. 1. Progress with Airbus suppliers “Over the past three days…
Alabama cities at the Paris Air Show: Huntsville, Mobile, Baldwin County, Montgomery and more
PARIS, France — In addition to Governor Robert Bentley representing the state in meetings this week at the Paris Air Show, a number of Alabama cities and counties sent representation to meet with companies at the show, particularly municipalities with existing aerospace industry businesses that see opportunity to expand. Of course both Huntsville and Mobile…
