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Financial Times • Jude Webber

Boeing to Take Over Spirit AeroSystems’ Belfast Plant, Sharing Production with Airbus

Boeing will acquire Spirit AeroSystems’ Belfast facility after attempts to find a buyer fell through, and plans to jointly operate the plant with Airbus. The move secures fuselage and wing production capacity for both planemakers and draws them under one roof in Northern Ireland.

2025-07-01T09:14:39.758815-07:00

Reuters

Boeing’s $4.7 Billion Spirit AeroSystems Deal Hits UK Antitrust Review

2025-06-30T02:59:07.909239-07:00

FlightGlobal

Honeywell Aerospace gears up for spin-out, CEO Jim Currier bullish on next chapter

2025-06-26T07:48:19.401323-07:00

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Silver Airways abruptly halts all flights and ceases operations after restructuring collapse

2025-06-10T22:46:01.807083-07:00

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Boeing to Take Over Spirit AeroSystems’ Belfast Plant, Sharing Production with Airbus Boeing will acquire Spirit AeroSystems’ Belfast facility after attempts to find a buyer fell through, and plans to jointly operate the plant with Airbus. The move secures fuselage and wing production capacity for both planemakers and draws them under one roof in Northern Ireland.

2025-07-01T09:14:39.758815-07:00

Boeing to Take Over Spirit AeroSystems’ Belfast Plant, Sharing Production with Airbus

Airline Geeks

Argentum Airways to Relaunch Silver Airways’ Florida, Bahamas and Alaska Network After Silver Airways ceased operations and headed into Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid unpaid fees, private equity-backed Argentum Airways has acquired its turboprop and regional jet fleet and plans to relaunch scheduled services between Florida, the Bahamas and Alaska under its new brand this summer.

2025-07-01T07:14:58.276134-07:00

Argentum Airways to Relaunch Silver Airways’ Florida, Bahamas and Alaska Network

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Baykar Completes Piaggio Aerospace Purchase, Plans Avanti Evo Relaunch and UAV Production Turkey’s Baykar Technologies has finalized its takeover of Italy’s 140-year-old Piaggio Aerospace, committing to restart production of the P180 Avanti Evo twin-turboprop at Piaggio’s Genoa plant. The deal also establishes Baykar’s Italian facilities as a hub for manufacturing Akinci and TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles.

2025-06-30T16:09:09.387240-07:00

Baykar Completes Piaggio Aerospace Purchase, Plans Avanti Evo Relaunch and UAV Production

FlightGlobal

RTX to sell Collins Aerospace controls unit to TransDigm amid DOJ lawsuit on Safran flight-controls deal RTX said it will offload Collins Aerospace’s sensing and controls division to TransDigm, even as a U.S. Justice Department antitrust suit threatens to block its separate $1.8 billion sale of the flight-controls business to Safran.

2025-06-30T10:11:48.947958-07:00

RTX to sell Collins Aerospace controls unit to TransDigm amid DOJ lawsuit on Safran flight-controls deal

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Boeing’s $4.7 Billion Spirit AeroSystems Deal Hits UK Antitrust Review The UK Competition and Markets Authority has launched an initial probe into Boeing’s planned £3.8 billion ($4.7 billion) takeover of Spirit AeroSystems, raising the prospect of delays or potential abandonment if deeper competition concerns emerge.

2025-06-30T02:59:07.909239-07:00

Boeing’s $4.7 Billion Spirit AeroSystems Deal Hits UK Antitrust Review

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FL Technics to Acquire JOB AIR Technic, Expanding Central Europe MRO Capacity Lithuania’s FL Technics, part of Avia Solutions Group, has agreed to acquire Czech MRO provider JOB AIR Technic, subject to closing conditions and statutory approvals. The deal grants FL Technics a 17,000 sqm facility with eight narrow- and wide-body bays at Leoš Janáček Airport Ostrava, expanding its Central European footprint.

2025-06-30T01:39:19.754333-07:00

FL Technics to Acquire JOB AIR Technic, Expanding Central Europe MRO Capacity

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Honeywell Aerospace gears up for spin-out, CEO Jim Currier bullish on next chapter Honeywell Aerospace is set to spin out from its corporate parent, aiming to unlock strategic and financial flexibility. CEO Jim Currier says the engines-to-automation specialist's robust performance and growth prospects in avionics and automation underpin his confidence as the standalone entity takes shape.

2025-06-26T07:48:19.401323-07:00

Honeywell Aerospace gears up for spin-out, CEO Jim Currier bullish on next chapter

Breaking Defense

US Defense Firms Pitch Coproduction, M&A and Local Subsidiaries to Win in Europe At the Paris Air Show, US defense executives outlined strategies to expand their share of Europe’s burgeoning arms market, proposing coproduction partnerships, targeted mergers and acquisitions, and the establishment of European-based subsidiaries to navigate procurement rules and trans-Atlantic tensions.

2025-06-25T10:11:38.847396-07:00

US Defense Firms Pitch Coproduction, M&A and Local Subsidiaries to Win in Europe

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