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FREDERICKSON, WA—Boeing will build the carbon-fiber composite tail of the 777X jet at its assembly plant here. The facility already builds the similar tail of the current 777.

MOBILE, AL—Do you want to work at the new Airbus assembly plant here? Here’s your chance. The company has begun hiring its next wave of manufacturing workers. Some of the jobs available include aircraft mechanics, cabin installers, and aircraft systems installers.

GREENSBORO, NC—Honda Aircraft Co. has revealed the first production HondaJet. The aircraft is now ready for ground tests.

NORTH CHARLESTON, SC—After falling behind on 787 fuselage production, Boeing’s assembly plant here has hit targets set by management, and workers are on track to earn a one-time bonus of 8 percent of a year’s pay.

MOBILE, AL—Airbus posted two new job openings Tuesday for its A320 assembly plant under construction here: a customer manager and a station coordinator.

FORT WAYNE, IN—BAE Systems has begun constructing a $39 million assembly plant here.

DETROIT—The assembly plant where Rosie the Riveter showed that a woman could do a “man’s work” by building World War II-era bombers has been saved from the wrecking ball by a group that wants to build a museum on the site.

DENVER—Autonomous Avionics has opened a new assembly plant here to make small unmanned aerial vehicles.

Based in Hayden, ID, Unitech Composites and Structures (UCS) has been fabricating complex components for fixed and rotary wing aircraft since 1979.

MUNICH, Germany—Researchers in Germany have developed a novel, snake-like robot capable of tightening bolts in even the most difficult-to-access cavities of an aircraft’s wing structure.