Mobile Downtown Airport

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The Mobile Downtown Airport ( IATA: BFM, ICAO: KBFM, also known as Brookley Complex and Brookley Field) is an industrial complex and airport, 5 km south of downtown Mobile, Alabama. The complex is located on the western shoreline of Mobile Bay and is managed by the Mobile Airport Authority.

The airport has of 2,926 m and 2,377 m in length that have a tower and two take-off and landing runways on instrument landing systems. Besides the airport, the complex is home to several aerospace manufacturers and offers direct access to rail, road and sea routes.

Use

On the Brookley Complex aircraft from FedEx, U.S. Airways and United Airlines are repaired. Federal Express uses the complex also operates three daily cargo flights to Memphis.

Extension

EADS North America chose the airport area for a development office with 250 employees. EADS and Northrop Grumman plans published in early 2008, after which the tanker KC -30 ( or KC- 45A) that is based largely on the Airbus A330 MRTT, is to be assembled ready for United States Air Force on the grounds of over 1000 employees. But the contract for the tanker fleet of the United States was ultimately Boeing.

2 July 2012, Airbus announced that it would build on the Mobile location an assembly line for the Airbus A320 family. Construction is to be in the summer of 2013, and with the production wants to begin 2015. By 2018, the capacity of the plant will be increased to 40 to 50 aircraft per year. Overall, Airbus plans to invest about 600 million U.S. dollars and receives from the state of Alabama financial and logistical support worth 158 million U.S. dollars.