Allan McArtor, Chairman and CEO of Airbus Group Inc. (IW 1000/52) wants the U.S. to know that he’s happy to return a favor. In an op-ed on AL.com, he explained that when his company released its first airplane in 1974, the engines that powered the A300 were built in the United States.
So in 2015 he was glad to boost the U.S. manufacturing sector by opening the company’s first U.S. assembly plant. The U.S. is the largest market in the world for single-aisle aircraft, which is part of the reason Airbus chose Mobile to build its U.S. manufacturing facility.
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