A new facility where future aerospace workers can gain necessary career skills opened last week in Everett: the Washington Aerospace Training and Research Center. This week, the first 20 students will file into a large building at Paine Field to start course work for an aerospace manufacturing core certificate. Students will become familiar with aircraft; they’ll learn about hand tools and manufacturing processes; they’ll read blueprints and get an introduction to composite materials. “This is the beginning,” Linda Lanham, director of Aerospace Futures Alliance, told a crowd who gathered last week at the training center.
Switching teams: Whidbey Island Bank acquired Lynnwood-based City Bank in April, and now it’s taking on a piece of shuttered Frontier Financial Corp., too. The Whidbey bank recruited eight former Frontier Bank staffers, according to a statement Thursday. Like City Bank, Frontier was shut down by regulators in April. It was bought by California-based Union Bank. Whidbey Island Bank touted its new team of recruits, led by former Frontier Senior Vice President Tim Coulter, as a sign that it’s dedicated to community banking in Snohomish County.
New 737: The Boeing Co. will go ahead with an all-new single-aisle jet, to replace its popular 737, if the company decides it can do so effectively by the year 2020, the company’s chief executive said. But if Boeing determines that an efficient replacement for the 737 can’t be produced until 2025, the company will look to put new engines on the 737, Jim McNerney, Boeing’s chief executive, said during an investors conference. In the short term, Boeing aims to take back the aircraft deliveries title from rival Airbus once it begins deliveries and ramps up production on its new 787 Dreamliner.
Mike Benbow, Herald Writer
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