Boeing’s Kansas facility has been in operation since 1929. The Chicago-based aerospace company won a $35 billion contract to supply the U.S. Air Force with aerial-refueling tankers last February.

Boeing said it will continue to have a significant impact on the Kansas economy and its aerospace industry. The Chicago-based company spent more than $3.2 billion with 475 Kansas suppliers last year.

It also is the home of Boeing’s B-52 bomber and 767 tanker aircraft programs, as well as other work. The Wichita and Kansas economies stand to lose over 9,500 jobs by the end of 2013.

Residents of Wichita, Kansas, are outraged after Boeing announced Wednesday that it will close a massive defense plant there. More than 2,000 highly skilled jobs will be gone by the end of next ...

Boeing said Monday it is studying the future of its Wichita, Kan., defense facility, and one option is closing it. The military modifications plant, which employs about 2,100 people, is where ...

Boeing is Kansas’ largest private employer; about 7,200 people work at the Wichita commercial plant, along with as many as 1,300 at the two smaller facilities in Oklahoma.

Boeing said it will continue to have a significant impact on the Kansas economy and its aerospace industry. The Chicago-based company spent more than $3.2 billion with 475 Kansas suppliers last year.

That study led Boeing executives to set in motion plans to close the Wichita plant by the end of 2013. Gone will be the facility’s existing 2,100 jobs and the promised tanker jobs.

Boeing announced in January that it would close its historic site in south Wichita by the end of 2013. The plant includes dozens of hangars and buildings on 400 acres of land.

Boeing said it will continue to have a significant impact on the Kansas economy and its aerospace industry. The Chicago-based company spent more than $3.2 billion with 475 Kansas suppliers last year.