Fairhope Airplane Plant to Close

L-3 Crestview Aerospace is closing its 41-worker Fairhope aircraft plant, a spokesman for parent L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. confirmed Tuesday.

Lance Martin, the spokesman, said all Fairhope workers have been offered jobs at the main factory in Crestview, Fla., about 110 miles east of Fairhope.

Crestview Aerospace, a unit of New York-based L-3, is sending assembly work on UH-1Y “Huey” helicopter bodies to the 1,000-worker-plus facility in the Florida Panhandle because it has room for the work, allowing L-3 to cut the expense of the Fairhope plant.

L-3 Crestview to close local plant

Who knew there was even an airplane plant in Fairhope?