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    Aircraft parts maker Spirit announces 2,800 layoffs

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    Workers walk away from the Boeing factory in Renton, Wash., where the company's 737 Max airplanes are built, with a painted exterior door of the factory in the background, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. As Boeing prepares to shutter much of the huge factory near Seattle that builds the grounded 737 Max jet, the economic hit is reverberating across the United States. The 737 Max, which analysts say is the largest manufactured product exported from the U.S., was grounded worldwide in March 2019 after the second of two deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed a total of 346 people, and on Monday, Dec. 16, 2019, Boeing announced that it would halt Max production in January 2020 with no date for it to resume. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

    WICHITA — The suspension of production of the Boeing 737 Max is taking a growing toll on suppliers in Kansas as aircraft parts maker Spirit AeroSystems is laying off 2,800 employees at its Wichita, Kansas, facility.

    Wichita bills itself as the “Air Capital of the World” for its concentration of aerospace manufacturers, which includes more than 40 aerospace companies provide parts and services for production of that aircraft.

    Spirit AeroSystems is the city’s largest employer and earlier this week asked employees if they would take voluntary buyouts.

    Dozens of smaller aerospace companies, mostly clustered in south-central Kansas, are also beginning to shed jobs.

    Employees will be paid for the 60-day notice period. Affected employees will leave the company beginning Jan. 22.

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