ALABAMA’S AVIATION/AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
OVERVIEW Airbus Begins Production of First Alabama’s aviation/aerospace industry has been integral to U.S. Space and Defense U.S. – Built A320 programs for more than 50 years. in Mobile Today, Alabama is home to hundreds of aerospace, aviation, and defense-related (2015) companies supporting both government and commercial markets and has attracted investment from companies around the globe. This marks another important milestone for the Alabama manufacturing facility. Since it began production in July 2015, 27 A321 aircraft have been delivered from the facility.
Airbus Press Release (May 2017) HIGHLIGHTS http://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press- releases/en/2017/05/airbus-begins- production-of-first-u-s-built-a320-in- mobile.html Alabama ranks 12th among US states for total employment in Aerospace Products and Parts Manufacturing (NAICS 3364).
Aerospace Products and Parts exports were valued at over $2.1 billion in 2018, an increase of over 48% over the previous year.
Alabama’s aviation, aerospace and defense sectors are made up of equipment Airbus launches A220 manufacturers (OEMs), maintenance, repair & overhaul (MRO), material and production on new component manufacturers, engineering and technical service providers, research Alabama assembly line and development (R&D) companies, and other product and service providers – over 300 companies. (2020)
Alabama is home to Airbus’ first American jetliner production facility. Airbus launched production of A220 aircraft at its newly constructed Final
Assembly Line hangar at its Alabama manufacturing facility in May 2020.
https://www.madeinalabama.com/2020/05/ airbus-launches-a220-production-on-new- alabama-assembly-line/
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COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION
In 2012, Airbus announced that it would build the company’s first American jetliner production facility in Mobile. Final assembly and production on the Airbus A320 family of aircraft began in 2015. Airbus began delivering aircraft to Airbus Assembly Line View customers in early 2016. FAST FACTS
Location: Mobile, Alabama Announced: July 2, 2012 Production Start: 2015 Products: A319, A320, A321, & A220 aircraft Investment: $600 million Job Creation: 1,000 direct jobs
ALABAMA : PART OF A GROWING SOUTHEAST INDUSTRY
Airbus and Alabama are part of a well‐established and growing Southeast industry in aircra manufacturing.
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HIGHLIGHTS, AEROSPACE PRODUCTS AND PARTS
Average Employment: Aerospace Products and Parts Manufacturing 2019
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Sta s cs www.bls.gov. 2019 data United Launch Alliance
Average Weekly Wage: Aerospace Products and Parts Manufacturing 2019 $2,000 $1,800 $1,600 $1,400 $1,200 $1,000 $800 $600 $400 $200 $0 Aerospace Products & Parts All Manufacturing Industries (Private) Manufacturing (Private) Airbus Engineering Center Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Sta s cs www.bls.gov. 2019 data
Dollar Value of Alabama Exports: Aircraft, Spacecraft and Parts 2019
$3,000,000,000
$2,500,000,000
$2,000,000,000
$1,500,000,000
$1,000,000,000
$500,000,000
$0 GE Aviation jet engine components factory 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Source: Alabama Department of Commerce, Interna onal Trade Division, 2020
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AVIATION, AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE AROUND THE STATE
Huntsville and North Alabama Mobile and Southwest Alabama In 2014, Alabama Aircraft Support Huntsville is one of the country’s Mobile’s Brookley Aeroplex is one (Enterprise) broke ground on a $12 principal centers for space and the largest industrial complexes on million aircraft maintenance hangar defense technology. the Gulf Coast and is home to a facility at Enterprise Municipal number of aviation and aerospace Airport. Huntsville is home to Redstone companies including Airbus Arsenal and NASA’s Marshall Americas Engineering, Star Commercial Jet, an MRO Space Flight Center where the Aviation, VTMAE, Continental (maintenance, repair, and overhaul) Saturn V rocket was designed and Motors, and Safran. services provider recently began the next-generation Space Launch operations at the Dothan Regional System is being developed. Brookley Aeroplex was selected as Airport in a 400,000 sq. ft. aircraft the location for Airbus' first servicing and maintenance facility. Cummings Research Park American jetliner production (Huntsville) is one of the world's facility. Production on its A320 Other notable companies in southeast leading science and technology family of aircraft began in 2015 and Alabama include Vector Aerospace business parks. the first Alabama-assembled (Andalusia), DRS Technologies jetliner, a A321, was delivered in (Andalusia), and Sikorsky Aircraft Boeing and Lockheed Martin have 2016. (Troy). made major contributions to the space and defense industry In 2015, Airbus Defense and Space advancement in Huntsville for over selected Mobile-based Airbus DS 50 years. Military Aircraft Inc. as its new worldwide support center for the In 2015, GE Aviation announced C212 aircraft series. that it will invest more than $200 million to produce advanced In 2015, MAAS Aviation materials to support the aerospace announced a $39 million twin-bay industry. paint facility and Paris-based Hutchinson Corporation In 2015, Hexcel announced a $150 announced a $2 million aerospace million expansion at its facility in manufacturing center of excellence Decatur. in Mobile and 100 jobs.
Other notable companies in the Other notable aerospace companies Huntsville area include Aegis in the area include UTC Aerospace Technologies, SAIC, SES, Systems (Foley), and Segers Aero Raytheon, COLSA Corporation, (Fairhope). Teledyne Brown Engineering and United Launch Alliance (Decatur). Dothan and Southeast Alabama Enterprise Community College Montgomery and Central Alabama (avionics and aviation mechanics Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base training) and Fort Rucker - the (Montgomery) sits on the original Army Aviation Center of the United site of the 1910 Wright Brother’s States - play a strong role in the flying school. Today, Maxwell is the development of aviation jobs in home of Air University and is the southeast Alabama. U.S. Air Force's center for Joint Professional Military Education. In 2014, Lockheed Martin (near Troy) broke ground for its Long In 2014, GE Aviation (Auburn) Range Strike Systems cruise missile announced that it would spend $50 production. In 2015, the company announced the addition of 240 million on a new 3-D printing Alabama’s aerospace and initiative, a first-of-its-kind project employees at the facility by 2020. defense companies are located that will mass produce fuel nozzles throughout the state and are for jet engines. part of a growing aerospace infrastructure in the Southeast.
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RECENT EXPANSIONS AND NEW PROJECTS (PARTIAL LIST)
Jobs Investment Company County Product Created (Millions) 2019 Segers Aero Corpora on Baldwin Aerospace MRO 5 $4.3 (Expansion) DynCorp Avia on Covington Helicopter MRO 60 $152 (Expansion) Lockheed Mar n Space Lawrence Aerospace Product & Parts Manufacturing 72 $45.2 (Expansion) Globalstar Aero Dale Aircra Maintenance and Repair 25 $1 (Expansion) 2018 Airbus Mobile A220 jets 430 $300 (Expansion) Doncasters Southern Tool Calhoun Metal Products 50 $48 (Expansion) DynCorp Avia on Covington Helicopter MRO 60 $150 (Expansion) EOS USA Madison Remotely Controlled Weapons Systems 100 $2 (New) Lockheed Mar n Pike Missiles 60 $130 (Expansion) Resicum Interna onal LLC Baldwin Avia on Training and Maintenance 18 New Southern Sky Avia on Jefferson Avia on MRO 50 New Stewart Industries Interna onal Jefferson Avia on MRO 200 New 2017 Aerojet Rockeydyne Madison Rocket Engine, Mfg 700 $137 (Expansion) Con nental Motors Mobile Piston engine manufacturing ‐ $60 (Expansion) Dyne cs Morgan Mfg. parts for NASA & others 15 $7.3 (Expansion) Raytheon Company Madison Missiles & Space Vehicles, Mfg 200 N/A (Expansion) United Launch Alliance Morgan Rocket boosters ‐ $115 (Expansion) Blue Origin Madison Rocket Engine, Mfg 265 $90 (New) Dyne cs, Inc. Morgan Aerospace tes ng facility 10 $14.2 (New) Global Avia on Services Marshall Helicopter repair and overhaul 25 N/A (New) RUAG Space Morgan Enclosures to cover satellites 100 N/A (New) Safran USA Mobile Aircra engine nacelle systems 20 $1.0 (New) 2016 UTC Aerospace Systems Baldwin Nacelle Components 260 $20.4 (Expansion) Yulista Management Services, Inc. Madison Aircraft Parts 200 $13.5 (Expansion) The Boeing Company Madison Engineering, Advanced Manufacturing 400 N/A (Expansion) Commercial Jet Services Houston Aviation MRO 100 N/A (Expansion) 2015 Lockheed Martin Missiles/Space Madison Missiles & Space Vehicles 100 N/A (Expansion) Hutchison Aerospace Mobile Acoustic Insulation 100 $2.0 (New) DIEHL Aerospace Inc. Shelby Aircraft Product Support & Maintenance 4 $3.5 (Expansion) GE Aviation Madison Aerospace Composites 300 $200.0 (New) MAAS Aviation Aircraft Services Mobile MRO Paint Facility 80 $39.0 (New) Continental Motors Mobile MRO for Aerospace Engines 25 $1.0 (Expansion) 2014 GE Aviation Lee Additive Components for Jet Propulsion N/A $50.0 (Expansion) GKN Aerospace Elmore Advanced Composite Structures 30 $16.0 (Expansion) Aerojet Rocketdyne Madison Rocket Propulsion Development Office 100 N/A (Expansion) MAAS Aviation Aircraft Services Mobile Paint Shop for Airbus 34 $13.0 (New) Science and Engineering Services (SES) Madison MRO of Helicopters, Airplanes 450 $70.0 (Expansion)
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WORKFORCE TRAINING AND EDUCATION Top 5 - Alabama Industrial Development Training (AIDT) was established to help U.S. Training Agency new and expanding Alabama companies recruit and train an outstanding workforce. AIDT is consistently recognized for its excellence.
Institutions of higher education across the state work closely with aerospace and defense companies to align programs with industry needs. 29 four-year colleges and universities and 24 two-year community and technical colleges - strategically located throughout the state- provide Alabamians with educational opportunities to meet the emerging needs of industry.
Four universities—Auburn University, University of Alabama, Tuskegee University, and University of Alabama in Huntsville, offer degrees in Aerospace Engineering. The Alabama Aviation Training Center, operated by AIDT, is preparing workers for the
Airbus A320 Family Assembly Line (FAL). Alabama’s Auburn University receives the nation's first FAA authorization to operate an Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight School.
Alabama Aviation Centers Other Aviation Education Locations
Calhoun’s Community College Associate of Applied Aviation College at Science degree in Aerospace Technology offers a Snead State concentration in Structures and Assembly or Albertville Campus Welding. It prepares graduates for employment in the aerospace and related industries through classroom and hands-on laboratory instruction in propulsion structures and assembly or specialized welding.
The Aviation Education Center will be built near the Airbus Final Assembly Line at Brookley. To be managed by Airbus Americas Inc., it will feature The Academy offers courses in aviation, industrial classrooms, workshops and “innovation rooms,” maintenance, and welding. This $2.7 million facility is a cooperative partnership with Coastal Alabama Ozark Campus along with flight-themed exhibits and education programming to inspire young people to pursue Community College, the Fairhope Airport Authority, and the Baldwin County Board of Education to train Andalusia Campus careers in the aerospace industry. high school students, college students, and working age adults to pursue aerospace and aviation careers.
Aviation Education Alabama Aviation Center Center The Academy at the at Mobile Fairhope Airport
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MAJOR MILESTONES
1930s 1980s 2015
Maxwell Air Force Base became the The first Space Shuttle mission was The Airbus U.S. Manufacturing designated home of the U.S. Army Air powered into orbit by the main engine Facility commenced aircraft assembly Force Tactical School for professional and solid rocket boosters developed in Mobile. military education. by the Marshall Space Flight Center.
1940s Lockheed Martin moved its smart missile operations from Orlando, Redstone Arsenal was established in Florida to Troy, Alabama. Huntsville. 1990s 1950s The Army’s Aviation and Missile Werner Von Braun came to Command moved to Huntsville. Huntsville. 1998
Boeing announced that the Delta IV 2016 rocket would be built in Decatur. Airbus celebrated delivery of its first 2003 Alabama – assembled commercial Boeing Delta IV rockets were jetliner , an A321, to U.S. customer consolidated to Alabama for JetBlue. production. The facility is now part of Werner Von Braun the United Launch Alliance joint venture between Boeing and 2017 1960s Lockheed-Martin. Airbus begins assembly of the first Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) 2006 A320. opened at Redstone Arsenal, making NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville a major center for the in Huntsville was named as a key future development of rockets and 2020 Center for the development of Ares I space exploration. and Ares V Rockets. Airbus has added A220 production with its new final assembly line. Apollo 4 launched using the Saturn V 2007 rocket developed at MSFC. Airbus North America Engineering opened a premier engineering center Sources: in Mobile’s Brookley Aeroplex. Alabama Department of Commerce, Business Development and International Trade 2009 US Bureau of Labor Statistics Alabama Aerospace Industry Association Headquarters U.S. Army Space and USA spending.gov 1970s Missile Defense Command moved to Alabama Commission on Higher Education Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville. NASA The Alabama Space and Rocket Redstone Arsenal 2012 Center opened in Huntsville, Marshall Space Flight Center becoming the future site of the U.S. Alabama was chosen as home of Miscellaneous news articles/ announcements Space Camp and Space Academy. Airbus’ U.S. A320 family final assembly line - the company’s first- January 2020 The Lunar Roving Vehicle, built in ever production of jetliners on Huntsville, was driven on the moon. American soil.
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