Airbus Helicopter Inc. officials gathered at its Columbus, Miss., plant Tuesday to announce the news of a new production line of helicopters for the Golden Triangle region. The plant, which has produced UH-72As since 2005, will begin production in September of its AStar line of commercial helicopters in East-Central Mississippi. AHI will produce up to 60 helicopters annually at the Columbus plant. AStar is the best selling civil and commercial helicopter in America. Source: WCBI, 03/04/14.
[Central Mississippi note: AHI operates a 350K square foot helicopter production plant in the Columbus, Miss., Golden Triangle Industrial Park; and has produced nearly 300 UH-72A Lakota helicopters for the U.S. Army.]
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