Bombardier has sold its Northern Ireland operations to US firm Spirit Aerosystems in a deal reportedly worth more than $1 billion in cash and assumed liabilities. In May, Bombardier announced it would sell off its Belfast factory as it looked to create a ‘single, streamlined, and fully integrated’ aviation business unit. The Belfast facility employs approximately 3,600 people in Northern Ireland. A major supplier to Airbus and Boeing, Spirit, based in Wichita, Kansas, is not only buying the Belfast operation but will also purchase a Bombardier factory in Morocco and a repair facility in the US. Bombardier’s Belfast plant creates

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