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The state of Wisconsin is taking legal action against an airplane manufacturer that received $4 million in state loans and millions more in tax incentives in 2012 to build a plant in Superior that was to employ 665 people.

Five years after the loans were made to Kestrel Aircraft, the manufacturing plant hasn’t been built, there are no aircraft manufacturing jobs in Superior, and Kestrel – now part of ONE Aviation, headed by Northland aviation mogul Alan Klapmeier – hasn’t made a loan payment to the state in 11 months and is in default.

In a memo Monday from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. obtained by the News Tribune, state officials told the company they are “moving forward with legal action” because of “Kestrel’s inability to show measurable progress toward obtaining financing.”

“We will pursue any and all remedies available to us to protect the state’s investment,” the memo says.

Meanwhile, one year after being offered $1.5 million in public financial incentives to expand to the Grand Rapids airport, a subsidiary of ONE Aviation still hasn’t accepted the money.

Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board officials confirmed this week that Albuquerque, N.M.-based ACC Manufacturing Inc., which makes composite airplane parts for its parent company, ONE Aviation, hasn’t used the $1.5 million Iron Range loan.

ONE Aviation – formed in 2015 by the merger of Kestrel Aircraft and Eclipse Aerospace – also hasn’t moved any work into a vacant hangar at the airport purchased by the Grand Rapids Economic Development Authority last year with a $293,000 loan

Article source: http://www.pressherald.com/2017/10/12/wisconsin-suing-kestrel-aircraft-over-loan-debt-stalled-financing/

(Reuters) – Bombardier Inc’s CSeries jetliner supports 22,700 jobs in more than nine U.S. states, and its aerospace division spent $2.4 billion with more than 800 U.S. suppliers last year, a measure of its economic impact as it battles with Boeing Co over allegations of receiving illegal subsidies and dumping, according to company officials and documents seen by Reuters.

The tallies would likely fall if the CSeries jetliner is effectively kept out of the U.S. market by U.S. duties, according to industry experts. Bombardier sources more than half of the purchased content of the CSeries from the United States, according to the documents reported by Reuters on Thursday.

The U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday proposed a 79.82 percent antidumping duty after a preliminary finding that the jets were sold below cost. Last week it announced a preliminary duty of nearly 220 percent to compensate for the subsidies.

Bombardier’s aerospace division operates facilities in eight states that provide service for business and commercial aircraft, parts distribution and training. Bombardier’s Learjet business unit headquarters also is in the United States.

Here are states with Bombardier operations and top 10 CSeries suppliers:

ARIZONA

Bombardier commercial and business aircraft service center

Honeywell International Inc

CALIFORNIA

Zodiac Aerospace SA

Senior Aerospace

TransDigm Group Inc

Parker Aerospace

CONNECTICUT

Bombardier business aircraft service center

Pratt Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp

FLORIDA

Bombardier business aircraft service center

GEORGIA

Bombardier commercial aircraft service center

ILLINOIS

Article source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-bombardier-commerce-factbox/factbox-bombardier-aero-tied-to-22700-u-s-jobs-2-4-billion-in-spending-idUSKBN1CB2BB

Five years after the loans were made to Kestrel Aircraft, the manufacturing plant hasn’t been built, there are no aircraft manufacturing jobs in Superior and Kestrel — now part of ONE Aviation, headed by Northland aviation mogul Alan Klapmeier — hasn’t made a loan payment to the state in 11 months.

In a memo from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. requested by the News Tribune, state officials on Monday told the company they are “moving forward with legal action against the company” due to “Kestrel’s inability to show measurable progress toward obtaining financing.”

“We will pursue any and all remedies available to us to protect the state’s investment,” the  memo notes.

Meanwhile, one year after being offered $1.5 million in public financial incentives to expand to the Grand Rapids airport, a subsidiary of ONE Aviation still hasn’t accepted the money.

Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board officials confirmed this week that Albuquerque, N.M.-based ACC Manufacturing Inc., which makes composite airplane parts for its parent company, ONE Aviation, hasn’t used the $1.5 million IRRRB loan.

ONE Aviation — formed in 2015 by the merger of Kestrel Aircraft and Eclipse Aerospace — also hasn’t moved any work into a vacant hangar at the airport purchased by the Grand Rapids Economic Development Authority last year with a $293,000 loan from the IRRRB to the city. ACC had pledged to build a manufacturing plant in the empty hangar employing at least 20 people making composite parts for ONE Aviation’s Eclipse jet by now.

IRRRB officials and state lawmakers on

Article source: http://www.superiortelegram.com/news/wisconsin/4342351-aircraft-company-plans-grounded

Klaus Strienz presents ideas for the development of a children and youth program to use for an “open house” at an airfield or at a large field in the community or near a school.

Editor: Klaus Strienz
Contact: Klaus Strienz, director of studies
Translation: M. Dell and Dr. Mervin K. Strickler (USA)

• The content of this web page can be downloaded in PDF format : Help! Children and youngsters are visiting the airfield!

Situation

It is apparent that children and youth are getting bored very fast when they do not have interesting activities to participate in. A realistic demonstration of this concept took place at the airfield “Friesener Warte“ in the north of Bavaria, Germany in July 2003. The editor is responsible for the school service of the German Aeroclub. The program of activities and learning experiences about many phases of aviation were planned and conducted with good teaching and learning practices in mind.

• Homepage of the gliding club for which this program was planned: http://www.segelflug.de/vereine/friesener-warte/

Strategy

The program is a step by step (1-9) approach to learning different aspects of flying. The first exercises explain the phenomena of air characteristics. Further activities explain the technical characteristics of an airplane. Next we introduce aviation communications (aviation terms).
For good educational reasons the activities are arranged in logical sequence. Each participant is given a paper with each numbered activity. The ideal plan is for each participant to visit the activities in the order shown on the paper. However circumstances of a larger group or availability of mentors may require

Article source: https://www.fai.org/page/help-children-and-youngsters-are-visiting-airfield