Fri, Oct 31, 2003
The Lancair Company today announced
a $2.5 million facilities expansion plan that will increase
production capacity and rate at the company’s Bend, Oregon
manufacturing plant.
The expansion, which is already underway, will add approximately
40,000 square feet to the facility’s existing 140,000 square
feet. The increased floor space will facilitate refinement of the
company’s manufacturing process. One benefit will be
increased manufacturing efficiency achieved through reducing
materials handling time by more than 70%.
“The facility expansion will allow us to continue to
perfect our production process,” said Lancair President Bing
Lantis. “Ultimately we’ll be able to do more with less
people while maintaining our extremely high quality
standards.”
The ultimate benefit of the expansion program will be an
increase in The Lancair Company’s production capacity
allowing the company to accelerate to one aircraft per day. The
expansion will also allow for parallel production of the Columbia
350 and 400 models as well as the possibility of additional models
in the future.
“This is exhilarating for us and our customers,”
Lantis continued.
“We’re delivering aircraft at an everincreasing rate
and we’re making significant capital investments to position
ourselves for the future. It’s a very exciting time at The
Lancair Company – a time greatly anticipated by thousands in
the general aviation community.”
Lancair is implementing the expansion program in a series of
stages and plans to complete the entire project by the end of the
second quarter of 2004.
Founded in 1995, The Lancair Company manufactures the Columbia
line of all-composite, high performance certified aircraft. Based
in Bend, Oregon, the company is currently delivering the
all-electric, normally aspirated Columbia 350. The Lancair Company
is also in the process of certifying a turbocharged version of the
Columbia dubbed the Columbia 400.
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