Chase Aviation Welcomes its New Neighbor... Boeing!

Boeing Offices and Hangar (CHS)

Chase Aviation Company welcomes it's new neighbor at Charleston Int'l Airport, Boeing! Yes, their offices are a little bigger and a little nicer, but in real estate, you never want to have the most expensive place on the street!
The North Charleston Facility will be the final assembly point for Boeing's 787 Dreamliner that has already received over 800 firm orders including a recent order of 50 aircraft from Dubai Airlines.
The new Final Assembly building features 642,720 square feet of covered space, roughly the equivalent of 10.5 football fields. More than 18,000 tons of steel and one million cubic feet of concrete were used in its construction. At full production rate, the South Carolina Final Assembly facility will produce three 787 Dreamliners per month.  More information on the new facility can be read here.

This new facility is at the center of a contentious debate and subsequent lawsuit filed by the NLRB which claims that Boeing is opening the new plant in a right-to-work state in retaliation against members of The International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAM) for their past strike activity in the Seattle area. The claim came despite the fact that no union jobs were being transferred from Washington state, and Boeing noted that the new jobs in South Carolina didn't even violate terms of its union contract with the IAM, let alone federal law.  The complete article on this lawsuit can be found here.