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Article: EADS North America Announces Finalist Sites for U.S. Aerial Refueling Tanker Industrial Facility.
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- Business Wire
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- May 5, 2005
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ARLINGTON, Va. -- EADS North America's competition to select a U.S. industrial site to support the KC-330 advanced tanker program has been narrowed to locations in four states, which have been asked to provide additional information in a Request for Proposal (RFP) issued today.
The selected site would become the center of industrial activity for the KC-330, which EADS North America is offering to the U.S. Air Force as a replacement for the KC-135 refueling fleet. The facility will begin operations in 2006 with the establishment of an aircraft engineering center.
Finalist sites and states receiving RFPs are Mobile Downtown Airport, Mobile, Alabama; ...