Boeing shutting down C-17 military transport production early

[unhappycamper]

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/04/07/3137516/boeing-shutting-down-c-17-military.html?sp=/99/261/



A $318,000,000 C-17 gassing up.

Boeing shutting down C-17 military transport production early
By John Gillie
Staff writer
April 7, 2014 Updated 16 hours ago

Boeing will shut down production of the last major aircraft built in California in mid-2015, three months earlier than it had predicted, the company said Monday.

The closure of production at Boeing's 1.1 million-square-foot assembly plant in Long Beach will mark the end of production of large aircraft in California, once the center of the aircraft industry in the United States.

The C-17 Globemaster III, a four-engine military transport, is the last large aircraft built in the state that once boasted large aircraft factories in Santa Monica, Long Beach, San Diego, Burbank and Palmdale.

Boeing built 223 C-17s for the U.S. Air Force as well as multiple transports for Australia, the United Kingdom, NATO, Canada, India, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.

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Hmmmm. 223 x 318 = 70,914
Add some zeros: 70,914,000,000
And a dollar sign: $70,914,000,000

223 C-17s cost us over $70 billion dollars.

[SevenSixtyTwo]

1. Not good

For a great many employees both union and management I'm sure.