NATO has agreed to buy two C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft from Boeing, extending the production line at the company’s Long Beach plant through late 2010, and perhaps longer. The factory employs 5,000 workers, roughly 1,400 of whom live in Orange County.
Boeing said in July that the government of Qatar had ordered an undisclosed number of the planes, which would keep the factory going well into 2010. Today’s announcement adds several months’ work to the plant’s production schedule, and more work might be coming.
“There continues to be strong interest in the international community in the C-17,” said Jerry Drelling, a Boeing spokesman.
Boeing has finished 192 of the 205 C-17s that it will likely build for the U.S Air Force. The Air Force will give one of those planes to NATO, and NATO will buy two others, Drelling says.
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NATO has agreed to buy two C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft from Boeing, extending the production line at the company’s Long Beach plant through late 2010, and perhaps longer. The factory employs 5,000 workers, roughly 1,400 of whom live in Orange County.
If Boeing stays in business that means I have a job next year after all.! I work for a subcontracted Boeing supplier. Whoo-hoo!
ocgurl, congradulations. I worked in aerospace, know how the work comes and goes with the contracts.
Need another order for 2-hundred.