Mobile -- Hoping it will help carve a greater share in the US market for the European aircraft maker, Airbus broke ground Monday on its first US assembly plant in Mobile, Alabama.
"It represents the real transformation of Airbus into a truly global company," chief executive Fabrice Bregier said at a ceremony to mark the launch of construction.
"We'll be manufacturing aircraft in Asia, in America, in Europe," he said. "Thanks to Mobile, the sun will never set on Airbus."...
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