WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Aircraft parts maker Spirit AeroSystems is investing $30 million in a new Wichita center.
The city’s largest employer announced the investment Monday at the Paris Air Show.
RELEASE: @SpiritAero creates new five-axis fabrication center of excellence https://t.co/oMyptsX9uA pic.twitter.com/AdVENXjSTe
— Spirit AeroSystems (@SpiritAero) June 19, 2017
Spirit’s vice president of fabrication, Alan Young, said in an interview last week that the facility, called the five-axis center of excellence, is expected to be operational later this year. Young says five-axis machines fashion “some of the most complicated parts on an airplane” including aluminum and titanium parts for an airplane’s fuselage, pylons and wing.  
It’s been a great day at #PAS17 with our Spirit team! pic.twitter.com/S4kZ22UIvu
— Spirit AeroSystems (@SpiritAero) June 19, 2017
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The expansion of the parts manufacturing and chemical processing isn’t expected to create more jobs or the need for more buildings. The center will be placed in an existing plant.