Officials at Spirit AeroSystems disregarded safety concerns raised by former employees and instructed them to undercount defects they found on plane fuselages, a federal lawsuit alleges.

WICHITA — It takes more than 200,000 fasteners to hold a Boeing 737 together, and many of them are installed manually by mechanics at Spirit AeroSystems. "You can run your finger down and feel ...

Boeing announced plans to acquire Spirit AeroSystems for $4.7 billion in an all-stock transaction. Spirit is part of the aerospace giant's supply chain. Boeing, located in Arlington, Virginia ...

PARIS, June 22 (Reuters) - Spirit AeroSystems (SPR.N), opens new tab will suspend factory production on Thursday at its plant in Wichita, Kansas, the company said, after workers rejected a ...

Europe’s Airbus has finalized an agreement to take some assets from Spirit AeroSystems, both companies said Monday, completing a critical part of a transatlantic carve-up of the struggling ...

The Federal Aviation Administration and Spirit AeroSystems, a supplier of fuselages to Boeing and wings for Airbus, said Friday they are each investigating the scope and impact of the issue ...

WASHINGTON — Boeing has reached a deal to acquire Spirit AeroSystems, one of its key suppliers, reuniting the aerospace giant with the factory that makes the fuselage for the 737 Max jet in ...

Boeing will buy Spirit AeroSystems, a subsidiary it spun off in 2009. Spirit produces 737 fuselages for Boeing, and was partly responsible for the manufacturing of the Max 9 that lost a door plug ...

By Niraj Chokshi Boeing said on Monday that it had agreed to buy a major supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, ending a nearly two-decade experiment in outsourcing production of major components of its ...