Lake City / Charlotte / Wichita / Greensboro / Newburgh / Durham / Orlando / Morehead City / Raleigh / Norfolk / Savannah / Los Angeles / Macon / /
Company
Honda Aircraft Company / Triumph Group Inc. / Winston-Salem Business Inc. / 3M / Greensboro Part / Honda Aircraft Company Top Reasons Aviation Businesses / TIMCO Aerosystems / Greenwich AeroGroup / HAECO / Textron Inc. / Triumph Actuation Systems / Atlantic Aero / Piedmont Airlines / Services Cessna Citation Service Center Cessna Aircraft Company / Piedmont Aviation / GE / Purolator Advanced Filtration / Greensboro Partnership / Clarcor / Purolator / Piedmont Triad Partnership / FedEx / Piedmont Triad International / TIMCO Aviation Services / /
Continent
Europe / North America / /
Country
United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Reorganization / M&A / Person Travel / Company Expansion / /
Facility
FedEx facility / Piedmont Triad International Airport / North Carolina State University / Greensboro Citation Service Center / Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University / Guilford Technical Community College / Burlington Alamance Regional Airport / Greensboro airport / /
IndustryTerm
manufacturing facilities / airline flights / additive manufacturing / hydraulic-actuation systems / aerospace industry / aerospace industries / manufacturing / supply chain / airline industry / airline customers / large airline hub / aviation infrastructure / business services / additive manufacturing research / manufacturing parts / manufacturing/ / aerospace supply chain / aerospace markets / /
Movie
Quality of life / /
NaturalFeature
Smoky Mountains / /
Organization
T.W. Andrews High School / North Carolina Aerospace Alliance / Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University / PTI Airport Authority / North Carolina State University / T.W. Andrews Aviation Academy / Guilford Technical Community College / /
Person
Cessna Caravan / Russell Stellfox / Winston-Salem Whiteheart / Kevin Baker / Ted Johnson / Rick Reed / Kip Blakely / Jim Heasley / Triumph / High Penny Whiteheart / Dan Lynch / Michimasa Fujino / /
Position
executive director / President / general manager / Cessna Citation Service Center / Entrepreneur / mechanic / supervisor / president and CEO / managing director / vice president of sales and marketing / certified civil engineer / deputy director of the airport / general manager / general manager of the operation / vice president industry and government relations / mechanic / director / Piedmont Triad Airport Authority / /
Why Greensboro’s Aviation Cluster Is Thriving Some just dream. Others dream and do. Some just plan. Others plan and act. Some just survive. Others survive and thrive. This is the story of an aviation cluster