| It appears that Raytheon Corp., which does lots of | | | | manufacturers there.For Salina Kansas there is not a |
| contracts for the United States military is shedding its | | | | whole lot going on in that city except maybe the Blue |
| Beechcraft brand of general aviation aircraft as that | | | | Beacon Truck Wash Company, although the town is |
| division is up for sale now. Of course this is rather | | | | growing the economic development Association |
| unfortunate for the economic development | | | | considers this a pretty big hit. A couple of years ago |
| associations of Salina Kansas and Wichita, Kansas, | | | | there were 7500 people employee in Kansas making |
| which both have aircraft plants there.In fact Raytheon | | | | general aviation aircraft were Beechcraft. That figure |
| aircraft Co. announced that it would be eliminating 600 | | | | is down from 9000 since 2001. Of course all the |
| or more jobs and although they announced that they | | | | aircraft manufacturing companies including Bombardier |
| would do this in January, now the company is for sale | | | | Aerospace and Cessna Aircraft Corp. have all had |
| and the aircraft manufacturing plants might close. This | | | | significant layoffs in Wichita. Please consider all this in |
| is rather unfortunate considering Wichita, Kansas has | | | | 2006."Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum |
| seen a real estate bubble burst and is still recovering | | | | board. |
| from the last wave of layoffs between all the aircraft | | | | |