as nyse spr industry aerospace and defense founded 1927 current name from 2005 headquarters wichita kansas united states key people tom gentile ceo duane hawkins coo sanjay kapoor cfo products aerostructures space systems revenue 6.8 billion year end 12 31 2014 number of employees 16 000 07 26 2013 website www.spiritaero.com spirit aerosystems inc. spirit based in wichita kansas is the world s largest first tier aerostructures manufacturer . the company builds several important pieces of boeing aircraft including the fuselage of the 737 portions of the 787 fuselage and the cockpit section of the fuselage referred to as section 41 by boeing of nearly all of its airliners . spirit also produces fuselage sections and front wing spars for the airbus a350 . 1 spirit s main competition comes from vought aircraft industries now known as triumph aerostructures vought aircraft division 2 utc aerospace systems alenia and kawasaki heavy industries . contents 1 history 2 mergers 3 spirit aerosystems 4 facilities 5 references 6 external links history edit spirit was formed when boeing commercial airplanes sold its wichita division to investment firm onex . boeing defense space & security retained its military business in wichita which lies on neighboring land . the wichita division was responsible for construction of many important aircraft in boeing s history including the b 29 superfortress b 47 stratojet and b 52 stratofortress . spirit can trace its legacy back even further to stearman aircraft which was founded on the same site ; stearman later became part of boeing . spirit also includes north american aviation s former tulsa and mcalester facilities both in oklahoma . in june 2016 it was announced that tom gentile was named ceo replacing larry lawson . 3 mergers edit on january 31 2006 bae systems announced it had agreed to sell its aerostructures business based at glasgow prestwick airport and samlesbury aerodrome to spirit . 4 the bae unit which was renamed spirit aerosystems europe ltd. is a major supplier to raytheon 5 % airbus 80 % and boeing 15 % . the transaction was completed on april 1 2006 . spirit paid gbp 80 million for the business . 5 spirit aerosystems edit in 2010 96 % of spirit s revenue came from its two largest customers 85 % of sales were from boeing 11 % from airbus . in 2009 these two customers represented 96 % of sales for spirit as well . 6 after planning to take spirit public 7 at initial public offering on november 21 2006 the firm s stock rose 10 % on the first day . 8 in november 2006 onex owned 58 % of spirit which resulted in 92 % of voting power as its shares conferred supervoting power . 8 the chief architect of the onex purchase of spirit was nigel s. wright who was later chief of staff for the canadian prime minister until his resignation as part of an expense scandal . in august 2014 the onex group sold all of its remaining shares of spirit . over the course of the nine year investment the onex group received aggregate proceeds of approximately 3.2 billion on its initial 375 million investment . 9 former house majority leader richard gephardt d mo serves as a labor consultant for spirit and sits on its board of directors . 10 11 facilities edit glasgow prestwick plant . saint nazaire france manufacturing plant . wichita kansas headquarters ex stearman boeing mcalester oklahoma ex north american rockwell boeing tulsa oklahoma ex north american rockwell boeing samlesbury england united kingdom small office on a bae systems site prestwick scotland united kingdom ex scottish aviation bae bae subang malaysia manufacturing plant kinston north carolina manufacturing plant global transpark jinjiang city china joint venture saint nazaire france manufacturing plant moscow russia joint venture nashville tennessee engineering design center references edit spirit aerosystems from cornfields to a350s . flight global . 2010 . retrieved 2010 07 18 . history triumph aerostructures vought aircraft division . triumph group inc. 2010 . retrieved 2015 08 18 . johnsson julie . largest boeing supplier selects a new ceo . the salt lake tribune . the salt lake tribune . retrieved 10 june 2016 . onex spirit aerosystems to acquire bae systems aerostructures . official press release . spirit aerosystems completes purchase of bae systems aerostructures unit . http www.sec.gov archives edgar data 1364885 000095012311016606 d78727e10vk.htm spirit aerosystems planning initial public offering . the wall street journal . june 30 2006 . a b update spirit aero aercap lift off post ipo spr aer . the wall street journal . november 21 2006 . onex sells remaining stake in spirit aerosystems yahoo finance . retrieved 2016 02 03 . richard a. gephardt joins onex team spirit aero news release 2005 04 29 pdf spirit aerosystems holdings inc spr people . retrieved 2016 02 03 . external links edit official website spirit gets first shot at non boeing job wichita business journal october 16 2005 v t e onex corporation subsidiaries hawker beechcraft spirit aerosystems tomkins plc carestream health corporate directors daniel c. casey william a. etherington peter c. godsoe serge gouin ewout r. heersink arianna huffington john b. mccoy j. robert s. prichard heather m. reisman gerald w. schwartz arni c. thorsteinson retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title spirit aerosystems & oldid 740009788 categories companies listed on the new york stock exchangeaircraft manufacturers of the united statescompanies based in wichita kansas navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran aisbahasa indonesia edit links this page was last modified on 18 september 2016 at 14 16 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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