Airbus announced plans for the $600 million U.S. Manufacturing Facility in 2012, and construction began at the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley the following year.  The first U.S.-made Airbus commercial aircraft - an A321 - is scheduled for delivery next spring. 

By 2018, the facility will produce between 40 and 50 single-aisle aircraft per year.  Airbus' market forecast indicates a demand over the next 20 years (from all manufacturers) for some 4,700 single-aisle aircraft in North America alone.

Fabrice Brégier and members of the new Airbus workforce in Mobile were joined at the inaugural ceremony today by Airbus Group CEO Tom Enders, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley, Senator Jeff Sessions, Congressman Bradley Byrne, and scores of other dignitaries, airline and aerospace executives, and local leaders. 

The industry- and community-wide event convened under the theme, "Let's Get to Work - Together!" and culminated in the ceremonial placement of a placard on a component of the first aircraft to be produced in Mobile. The placard reads, "This aircraft proudly made in the U.S.A. by the worldwide team from Airbus."

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