Bombardier Aerospace is expanding its aircraft service center in Tucson, hiring 116 workers recently with plans to add more, the company and economic-development officials announced today.
The Montreal-based company — which had about 630 employees at the start of the year — credited state and local officials with responding to growth concerns at its Tucson International Airport site.
Among those efforts, the Arizona Commerce Authority has allocated federal stimulus money to build a new security fence, to allow Bombardier to easily move about its part of the airport property without special Transportation Security Administration badging.
“Bombardier continues to see strong demand for its aircraft services and wants to meet that demand by strategically adding jobs in key service centers throughout our network,” says Gary Martin, a Bombardier vice president who made the joint announcement at a Commerce Authority meeting in Phoenix.
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