Editing Mobile, Alabama (section)

====Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley====
The [[Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley]] is an industrial complex and airport located {{convert|3|mi|km|0}} south of the central business district of the city. It is the largest industrial and transportation complex in the region, having more than 70 companies, many of which are [[aerospace]], spread over {{convert|1650|acre|0|abbr=on}}.<ref name="overview">{{cite web |title=Overview |work=Brookley Aeroplex |url=http://www.brookleyaeroplex.com/aeroplex.php |access-date=June 30, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102064612/http://www.brookleyaeroplex.com/aeroplex.php |archive-date=January 2, 2013 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Notable employers at Brookley include [[Airbus]] North America Engineering ([[EADS North America|Airbus Military North America]]'s facilities are at the Mobile Regional Airport), [[VT Mobile Aerospace Engineering]] (a division of [[ST Engineering]]), and [[Continental Motors, Inc.|Continental Motors]].<ref name="tenants">{{cite web |title=Tenants |work=Brookley Aeroplex |url=http://www.brookleyaeroplex.com/pdfs/tenants.pdf |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120904062251/http://www.brookleyaeroplex.com/pdfs/tenants.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 4, 2012 |access-date=June 30, 2012 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Plans for an [[Airbus A320 family]] aircraft assembly plant in Mobile were formally announced by [[Airbus]] CEO [[Fabrice Brégier]] from the Mobile Convention Center on July 2, 2012. The plans include a $600 million factory at the Brookley Aeroplex for the assembly of the A319, A320 and A321 aircraft. It was planned to employ up roughly 1,000 full-time workers when fully operational. Construction began with a groundbreaking ceremony on April 8, 2013, with it becoming operable by 2015 and producing up to 50 aircraft per year by 2017.<ref name="apconfirm">{{cite news |title=Airbus to Build 1st US Assembly Plant in Alabama |agency=Associated Press |author=Melissa Nelson-Gabriel |date=July 2, 2012 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/officials-ala-airbus-plant-employ-1000-16690789#.T_HRzJHhcqN |access-date=July 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120703090843/https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/officials-ala-airbus-plant-employ-1000-16690789#.T_HRzJHhcqN |archive-date=July 3, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="bbcconfirm">{{cite news |title=Airbus confirms its first US factory to build A320 jet |work=BBC News |date=July 2, 2012 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18675711 |access-date=July 2, 2012}}</ref> The assembly plant is the company's first factory to be built within the United States.<ref>{{cite news |title=EADS to Build United States Assembly Line for Airbus A320 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/business/global/eads-to-build-airbus-assembly-line-in-mobile-ala.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 2, 2012 |author=Nicola Clark|date=July 2, 2012}}</ref> It was announced on February 1, 2013, that Airbus had hired Alabama-based [[Hoar Construction]] to oversee construction of the facility.<ref name=airbusasby>{{cite web |title=Airbus Appoints Program Manager for its Mobile Assembly Line |url=http://www.airbus.com/newsevents/news-events-single/detail/airbus-appoints-program-manager-for-its-mobile-assembly-line/ |publisher=Airbus |access-date=February 7, 2013 |archive-date=February 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130206110927/http://www.airbus.com/newsevents/news-events-single/detail/airbus-appoints-program-manager-for-its-mobile-assembly-line/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>
The factory officially opened on September 14, 2015, covering one million square feet on 53 acres of flat grassland.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Arielle Emmett|title=Airbus Lands In Alabama|url=http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/airbus-in-mobile-180959124/|access-date=March 18, 2017|publisher=Air & Space Smithsonian|date=June 2016}}</ref>

On October 16, 2017, Airbus announced a partnership with [[Bombardier Aerospace]], taking over a majority share of the [[Bombardier CSeries]] airliner program. As a result of this partnership, Airbus plans to open an assembly line for CSeries aircraft in Mobile, particularly to serve the US market. This effort may allow the companies to circumvent high import tariffs on the CSeries family.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-16/airbus-to-buy-majority-stake-in-bombardier-c-series-jet-program|title=Airbus Snaps Up Bombardier Jet in New Challenge to Boeing|work=Bloomberg.com|date=October 17, 2017|access-date=November 7, 2017}}</ref> The aircraft was renamed the Airbus A220 on July 10, 2018.<ref>{{Cite press release |url= https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2018/07/airbus-introduces-the-a220-100-and-a220-300.html |title= Airbus introduces the A220-100 and A220-300 |date=July 10, 2018 |publisher= Airbus}}</ref> Production started in August 2019; the first A220 from the new line is due to be delivered to Delta in the third quarter of 2020.<ref name=Airbus20190805>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Airbus begins U.S. production of A220 aircraft |url=https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2019/08/airbus-begins-us-production-of-a220-aircraft.html |publisher=Airbus |date=August 5, 2019 |access-date=August 6, 2019}}</ref>