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Airbus Plans First US Assembly Line in Alabama

Mobile plant could produce dozens of A320s per year

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 28, 2012 8:40 AM CDT

(Newser) – Airbus plans to invest several hundred million dollars in a new plant in Mobile, Ala., which would be the European plane manufacturer's first factory on US soil, sources tell the New York Times. The move would ramp up its competition with Boeing, which has... Read full story »

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Airbus Plans First US Assembly Line in Alabama

Mobile plant could produce dozens of A320s per year

Boeing • airline industry • Airbus • Alabama • factory • Mobile, Alabama • airplanes

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