According to the Tri-Cities Business Journal, Tri-Cities Regional Airport was one of two airport finalists for Honda Aero Inc.’s corporate headquarters and state-of-the-art jet engine manufacturing plant. The Honda Aero facility will be constructed in Burlington, N.C. The plant will build jet engines for HondaJet and Spectrum Aeronautical’s Freedom.
The Parties think Chattanooga should be seeking airplane manufacturers as aggressively as car manufacturers. Chattanooga is geographically positioned to take advantage of the UT Space Institute and Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tullahoma, the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Oak Ridge National Labs in Oak Ridge, UT-Batelle in Knoxville, and Georgia Tech and in Atlanta. With Martin Marietta near Atlanta, the C-130 repair facility in Warner Robbins, Georgia, and Northrup Grumann in Alabama (just to name a few), materials suppliers and vendors are close by. Add to all of those resources Chattanooga's own SIM Center on the Campus of Chattanooga's University, and Enterprise South becomes a hospitable and accessible home for jet plane manufacturing. The range of jobs provided is greater -- high tech and low tech -- and all have strong pay.
Perhaps Chattanooga tried to get the Honda Aero plant, too, but no stories yet indicate so, and the plant is now headed to Burlington, NC.
For details see The Tri-Cities Business Journal
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