Texas to Get 3,000 Boeing-Related Jobs

Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced this week that Vought Aircraft Industries will consolidate several of its aircraft manufacturing facilities in Dallas, creating 3,000 new Texas jobs. As many as 2,000 of those jobs might be building parts for Boeing planes, including the 7E7.

Texas will grant Vought, headquartered in Dallas, $35 million from the Texas Enterprise Fund. Vought will use that money to modernize its plant at the former Dallas Naval Air Station.

Texas economic development officials said much of the state's money will be used to equip the Dallas Vought plant to produce major subassemblies for the 7E7 jetliner.

Boeing has named Vought and its partner, Italian aerospace company Alenia, as major suppliers for the new twin-engine jet. Together Vought and Alenia will produce the airliner's composite center and aft fuselage and horizontal tail.

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