The FAA has capped production of the 737, a crucial source of revenue, until Boeing proves it had addressed lax quality ...

April 22 (Reuters) - Spirit AeroSystems' (SPR.N), opens new tab chief engineer Sean Black will lead the supplier's site in Wichita, Kansas, after Boeing ... China's April factory output, retail ...

on Friday announced the furlough of 250-350 employees starting on May 12 for one month because of a backlog of parts for two Boeing 737 programs at the Kansas plant, The Wichita Eagle reported.

Spirit, based in Wichita, Kansas, builds the entire fuselage ... The fuselages are constructed at Spirit’s Wichita factory and then shipped by train to Boeing’s Renton, Washington, facility.

Boeing is set to acquire other parts of Spirit, including its Wichita, Kansas, headquarters where ... had been produced in Spirit’s Wichita factory before it was shipped by train to Boeing ...

Following these developments, Spirit AeroSystems is furloughing between 250 and 350 employees for one month at its fuselage plant in Wichita ... action was driven by Boeing’s 53-day workers ...

Europe’s Airbus has reached a deal to acquire manufacturing assets from Spirit AeroSystems as the struggling Kansas-based supplier nears its $4.7 billion reacquisition by Boeing. Both companies ...

Among those is the production of A220 pylons in Wichita ... the Boeing Co. reached a deal last year to reacquire Spirit AeroSystems for $8.3 billion. Boeing had sold its mammoth plant in 2005 ...

Two key plants involved in the transfer are Kinston, in North Carolina, where Spirit (SPR) makes a crucial part of the A350 fuselage, and a plant in ... planemakers. Wichita, Kansas-based Spirit ...

While Boeing pays $4.7bn (£3.5bn) to buy part of Spirit AeroSystems, Spirit is paying $439m (£328m) to Airbus to take over ...