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Boeing South Carolina is an airplane assembly facility built by Boeing in North Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Located on the grounds of the joint-use Charleston Air Force Base and Charleston International Airport , the site is the final assembly and delivery point for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner .
Some workers at a Boeing facility in South Carolina are being laid off from the company, nearly five months after President Donald Trump visited the plant, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
The company attributed the change to the need for efficiency, but given South Carolina's position as a nonunion state, it was widely viewed as a slap at the machinists union, which had staged a 58 ...
A.J. Jones, a quality inspector who has been at Boeing for 10 years, was among the workers picketing on a corner near Boeing's Renton campus. He said he was glad union members had decided to hold ...
Boeing is among the largest global aerospace manufacturers; it is the fourth-largest defense contractor in the world based on 2022 revenue [6] and is the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value. [7] Boeing was founded by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington, on July 15, 1916. [8]
The current terminal on the south end of the airport was built in the 1980s on land acquired by Georgia Pacific. [6] View of Charleston Field, a U.S. Air Force base. In October 2009, Boeing announced that it would build a major plant on 265 acres (107 ha) at the airport as a second final assembly site for its 787 Dreamliner commercial aircraft ...
Boeing said its engineers have determined that misconduct did not create “an immediate safety of flight issue.” In an email to Boeing's South Carolina employees on April 29, Scott Stocker, who leads the 787 program, said a worker observed an “irregularity” in a required test of the wing-to-body join and reported it to his manager.
Boeing previously insisted that moving headquarters was in the company’s best interests, noting Boeing builds products other than commercial aircraft, including from its defense and space business.