PARIS (AP) — European aircraft maker Airbus announces plans to shed 15,000 jobs, mostly in Europe, over the next year.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — One of the 15 people injured in a explosion at the Beechcraft aircraft manufacturing facility in Wichita remains hospitalized.

STRATFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut aircraft manufacturer is partnering with a major labor union to train the next generation of aerospace employees.

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. (AP) — A former grocery store in Middle Georgia is now serving high-tech aircraft manufacturing for the military.

The inside of the brick building — a former Publix store in Warner Robins — is full of gleaming new futuristic machinery.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Spirit AeroSystems will lease space in a new building at Wichita State University's Innovation Campus.

The aircraft manufacturing company will occupy an 8,000-square-foot (2438-meter) office on the second floor of the new Partnership 2 Building.

Tom Gentile the company's CEO. He told The Wichita Eagle that the new space first physical location on the school's campus.

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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Union members have voted for a deal that would keep Sikorsky Aircraft manufacturing U.S. Navy helicopters in Stratford, Connecticut, for at least the next 16 years.

More than 2,000 Teamsters voted Sunday for the state deal that includes a 25 percent pay cut for workers hired starting in 2017. The deal had been reached between Sikorsky, Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration and Sikorsky's new owner, Maryland-based Lockheed Martin.