Boeing may announce C-17 shutdown
Published: Fri Aug 18th, 2006Source: www.chron.com
LOS ANGELES - Workers at Boeing Co.'s sprawling Long Beach aircraft plant are expecting bad news Friday about the fate of the C-17 cargo plane _ and their jobs.The company is expected to tell subcontractors to stop producing parts and supplies for the massive cargo plane because Congress has not funded enough orders to keep the line going past 2008.
Boeing has been spending millions of dollars to keep the supply line full, hoping Congress would order hundreds more C-17s. The Air Force has already said it does not need more than the 180 already on order, but lawmakers have been pushing hard to keep the plane in production.
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