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| Spirit AeroSystems and McConnell Air Force Base Area shown is about 2.5 miles across |
My Daily Kona has a post up about the Boeing 737 that lost its exit door. He opens by mentioning the door maker: Spirit AeroSystems. I'm thinking this could be somebody's small shop, hammering out airliner doors in their garage. Not quite:
Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc., based in Wichita, Kansas, United States, is an American aerostructure manufacturer, and is the world's largest first-tier aerostructures manufacturer. The company builds several important pieces of Boeing aircraft, including the fuselage of the 737, and 787, as well as the flight deck section of the fuselage of nearly all of Boeing airliners. Spirit also produces fuselage sections and front wing spars for the Airbus A350. - Wikipedia
As you can see from the satellite image at the top they are kind of a big deal. It was originally founded as the Stearman Aircraft. They also built the B-29, B-47 and B-52 bombers.
P. S, Yahoo Finance has a pretty good article about this incident.
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After Boeing took over Stearman in the mid 30s Boeing Wichita was huge, something like 1100 acres.
They built about 1600 B-29s there and about 470 B-52s. They closed the plant about 15 years ago and sold the land, well most of it, to several outfits including Spirit. But Boeing is still on the hook for groundwater contamination remediation.
xoxoxoBruce
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