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Burns & McDonnell is an American multinational construction, architecture and engineering firm based in Kansas City, Missouri, and has 100% employee stock ownership.It was established in 1898 by engineers Clinton Sumner Burns and Robert Emmett McDonnell.
Wichita plant as seen in 2005, just before Spirit Aerosystems took control. Spirit was originally formed as Mid-Western Aircraft Systems when Boeing sold its Wichita factory along with facilities in Tulsa and McAlester to the investment firm Onex Corporation in June 2005 for US$900 million in cash and the assumption of $300 million in debt, a total of $1.2 billion in enterprise value.
A lease between the federal government and the city was concluded and on 1 March 1942, the AAF Materiel Center, Midwestern Procurement District (Materiel Command) was established at Wichita Army Airfield. As soon as construction permitted, the headquarters of the district was established in the administration building of the municipal airport.
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Clinton Sumner Burns was born at Waverly Iowa on October 26, 1871, the son of Heman Hoit Burns (1842-1917) [2] and Laura Root Burns (1845-1881). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] His early education was obtained in the public schools at Port Byron NY where he lived with his grandmother and at Cornell University. [ 4 ]
The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), IFPTE Local 2001 is a professional labor union representing more than 24,000 engineers, technical workers and other professionals in the aerospace industry. SPEEA represents employees at The Boeing Company, Spirit AeroSystems, BAE Systems and Triumph Composite Systems.
On March 4, 2014, the Wichita City Council approved changing the name from Wichita Mid-Continent Airport to Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport, in honor of former president, general, and Kansas native Dwight D. Eisenhower. [14] [15] Groundbreaking ceremonies for the new terminal took place on September 13, 2012. [16]
A 10,010 lb (4,540 kg) MTOW limit was cited by engineering company Burns & McDonnell in 2005, [37] Popular Mechanics in 2007, [38] or GlobalSecurity.org. [ 39 ] Cessna simultaneously developed the Citation Mustang , [ 40 ] [ 34 ] [ 35 ] a six-place twinjet (2 crew + 4 passengers), followed by the Embraer Phenom 100 [ 40 ] [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 36 ...