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Airbus Vows To Boost Business In Alabama If It Can Make Tankers There

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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

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By Jen DiMascio Airbus executives and Alabama politicians yesterday said that the company would produce commercial freighters in Mobile, as long as its parent, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (EADS),wins a contract from the U.S. Air Force to make aerial refueling tankers on the same production line. The announcement comes less than two weeks after both EADS with its lead partner Northrop Grumman [NOC] and their competitor Boeing [BA] submitted final bids to the Air Force for the…

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