Airbus Group CEO Tom Enders and American enterprise head Allan McArtor want to see the company’s share of the U.S. defense market expand. But the CEO doesn’t expect any short-term large acquisition targets to that end any time soon. McArtor wants to expand the market in such areas as helicopters, where it already builds UH-72A Lakotas for the Army and other helos for the Coast Guard at its Columbus, Miss., plant. Airbus is also building a final assembly facility in Mobile, Ala., for single-aisle aircraft. Airbus is the largest customer within the American aerospace industry with its commercial wing accounting for more than $14 billion in purchases from U.S. suppliers in 2013. Reuters, 03/07/14.
(Central Mississippi note: Airbus Helicopters Inc. operates from the Golden Triangle airport in Columbus.)
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