Gulfstream recently laid off approximately 446 employees from 11 locations, reducing its workforce by about 3.5 percent. The company is still hiring in areas such as manufacturing and maintenance, but reducing business support and administrative functions positions, Gulfstream Director of Corporate Communications and Media Relations Heidi Fedak told Fox News on Wednesday.
“In order to ensure Gulfstream’s continued long-term success, we must consistently evaluate the size and structure of the business and adjust accordingly,” said Fedak. “We will continue to hire and add resources in areas aligned with our strategic growth plan, while judiciously consolidating, integrating and streamlining resources that no longer align with that plan.”
As previously reported by AVweb, Gulfstream opened a new 202,000-square-foot service center at the company’s headquarters in Savannah, Georgia, in September. According to Fedak, the company will continue hiring technicians for the Savannah location and for its Appleton, Wisconsin, service center—which opened last August —along with filling positions at planned facilities in Palm Beach, Florida, and Van Nuys, California. The Palm Beach and Van Nuys locations are expected to open in 2020.
Great aircraft goof in new movie, The Irishman. It is 1975. Robert De Niro boards and is seated in a Cessna 421C MY 1979 (tail N212RV) with a partial glass cockpit retrofit circa 2000’s. No wonder he looks so glum! He is in an aircraft that hasn’t been built yet! Pilot sits down and pretends to move his hands in front of the instruments as the engines both miraculously start and spool up and down without him at any time touching the throttles and with no instruments coming to life. I guess it was an early venture into autonomous flying. Someone wasn’t paying attention to detail. But the movie was worth watching. 🙂 Howard