The company is adding square footage, staff and new capabilities for battery servicing, painting and a host of other MRO services for business aircraft.
Groundings started less than 24 hours after Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, a three-month-old 737 MAX 8 crashed six minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa in clear weather March 10.
The aircraft, operating as flight ET302 to Nairobi, departed Bole International Airport at 08.38 a.m. local time with 149 passengers and eight crew members onboard.
Boeing has established a $3 million permanent endowment for scholarships covering training costs for the university’s aviation maintenance and flight programs.