Boeing makes its Globemaster III C-17 planes in Long Beach. (Boeing Co.) |
Workers may get word later this year on the future of the long-endangered Boeing aircraft plant in Long Beach that has been churning out Globemaster III C-17 cargo planes for the Air Force since the early 1990s.
In a report filed this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said that at the end of last year it still had orders from the Air Force for three additional C-17s, plus two orders from international customers.
Boeing also said it had “probable” orders for an additional 19 planes, including six for the Air Force and 13 from other countries. With a recently reduced workforce, the company said, it produces about 10 planes a year.
Under the current order outlook, work probably would run out in the third quarter of 2014, Cindy Anderson, a spokeswoman for the Chicago-based planemaker, told Bloomberg News.
The company renewed expectations of a shutdown if the potential orders do not materialize, saying it is “reasonably possible” that a decision will be made this year to end C-17 production “at a future date.”
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