The planemaker is loading its 737 final assembly lines to build 38 of the narrowbody aircraft a month, the maximum allowed by ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 the production capacity. Meanwhile, Airbus is extending $200m (£150m) of ...