Triad aims to fly high in aviation.

AuthorWood, Suzanne
PositionSPONSORED SECTION

Guilford County leaders recently decided that one of its burgeoning industries, aviation and aerospace, merited its own dedicated business recruiter. The region currently is home to about 200 such companies employing roughly 20,000 people. But it has the potential to grow even larger, in part due to 800 acres of undeveloped, runway-accessible industrial sites at Piedmont Triad International Airport, which already employs about 5,200.

The Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority and the Piedmont Triad Regional Partnership in April 2017 hired Mississippian Jim McArthur as senior director of aviation. While he's based at the Greensboro Chamber, McArthur's responsibility includes the 12 counties that comprise the Piedmont Triad Regional Partnership.

Although McArthur wasn't focused exclusively on aerospace and aviation in his previous position as the No. 2 official at the Mississippi Development Authority, he worked on a number of large projects including several involving aerospace and advanced manufacturing.

Mississippi can claim its own healthy aerospace and aviation sector, serving as home to NASA's Stennis Space Center near the Gulf Coast and such top manufacturers as Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, GE Aviation, Raytheon, Boeing and Airbus. Aviation-related manufacturers in the Triad include Honda Aircraft Co., located at the airport. Attracting more could...

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