Tue, Jun 28, 2005
First Time THAT'S Happened In Two Decades
I admit it's getting better
A little better all the time
Yes I admit it's getting better
It's getting better since you've been mine
Getting so much better all the time
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better
Getting so much better all the time
-- John Lennon/Paul McCartney "Getting Better"
Imagine being a cop in Kerrville,
TX, working the night shift. You drive by the Mooney plant and see
lights. Is it trouble? A crime in progress?
Nope. It's the second shift, something that hasn't been seen in
a Mooney plant in some 20 years.
"The demand for the airplanes has been caused by the new Garmin
G-1000 glass-panel avionics suite, the new three-bladed propeller,
Mooney's obvious recovery from its financial problems, and a
general improvement in the economy and the general aviation
industry in general," explained Mooney Aerospace Group Vice
Chairman J. Nelson Happy in an interview with the San Antonio
Business Journal.
Happy said Mooney has hired 50 new workers to staff the second
shift and plans to hire more.
If Mooney's director of assembly has anything to say about it,
the good times will continue to roll. "It's not something we
see an end to in the near future," Cullen told the Journal. "Our
demand for aircraft is increasing every month," Cullen says. "We're
really in a growth mode and need to keep up with the demand. And
that second shift (job expansion) allows us to do that."
Overall, Mooney employs 366 workers, a number Cullen says will
grow. "Our demand for aircraft is increasing every month. We're
really in a growth mode and need to keep up with the demand. And
that second shift (job expansion) allows us to do that."
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