Kansas-based Spirit Aero, which acquired the Short Brothers manufacturing business from Bombardier in 2019, is the process of being carved up by Boeing and Airbus. The Belfast-based advanced ...

“We are doing all we can to find an outcome that protects both manufacturing and jobs in Belfast,” she said. Known as Short Brothers, the plant employs around 3,500 people, but the Airbus deal ...

Short Brothers plc trades as Bombardier Aerospace ... announced an organisational restructuring in its global aerospace business. The Belfast operations are now located in a new Aerostructures ...

Spirit operates the Short Brothers facility in Belfast – acquired from Bombardier in 2020 – which produces wings for the Airbus A220 programme as well as aerostructures for Bombardier ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a chilly hangar in Northern Ireland, Ulster Aviation Society co-founder Ray Burrows surveys ...

SHORT Brothers & Harland claims to be the first ... The first factory in Belfast was established in 1936 and its most famous plane, The Sunderland Flying Boat, made its debut just a year later.