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Lull in Global Express sales trickles down to Marshall Aero

Marshall Aerospace, now finishing its sixth Global Express completion for Bombardier,
is having to find alternative work for its Cambridge, UK facili

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

May 7, 2008

Marshall Aerospace, now finishing its sixth Global Express completion for Bombardier,
is having to find alternative work for its Cambridge, UK facility as sales slow for the ultra-long-range business jet. The company is contracted to complete six more green Globals, but it is now unclear when it will get this work.

To date, just over 80 Global Expresses have been delivered out of 112 on firm order. Marshall has been told that Bombardier intends to keep the remaining completions at its own facilities in Montreal and Tucson, Ariz. In the late 1990s the airframer had appointed Marshall as a completion center to accelerate Global deliveries at a time when orders were booming.

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