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 ...

a boxy Short 330 and a Canberra spy plane – all developed at the Short Brothers factory in Belfast. As integral to the region’s manufacturing history as the nearby Harland & Wolff shipyard ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The Northern Ireland operation of Spirit AeroSystems looks set to be broken up this year, with Boeing potentially taking over the non-Airbus related part of the Belfast business if a buyer cannot ...

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 ...