Rob Geckle, chairman and CEO of Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, speaks during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new hangar at Airbus’ U.S. Military Aircraft facility in west Mobile on Wednesday, March 6, 2024. Behind him are, from left, Jose-Antonio De La Fuente, head of Airbus U.S. Military Aircraft; Bradley Byrne, president and CEO of the Mobile Chamber; Chris Curry, president of the Mobile Airport Authority; and Mobile City Council member Gina Gregory.
A branch of Airbus that specializes in upgrading and overhauling military aircraft has expanded its operations in Mobile, cutting the ribbon Wednesday on a new hangar for an operation that has doubled its workforce in the last few years and continues to add skilled jobs.
Airbus U.S. Military Aircraft, a branch of Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, is not the biggest Airbus operation in Mobile or the one that attracts the most public notice. It is, however, the oldest, having set up shop at Mobile Regional Airport in west Mobile in 2005. That’s two years before Airbus opened an engineering center at the Brookley Aeroplex, a forerunner of the massive Final Assembly Lines it would later bring to Brookley.
