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Commander Premier Aircraft Corporation,
who is relocating its airplane manufacturing firm from Bethany, Okla.,
to the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport has also leased at Cape Girardeau
warehouse facility for a parts and small assembly operation.
Tom Kelsey, commercial broker with Lorimont Place, Ltd. announced
that that Commander had leased a 23,760 square foot warehouse facility
at 2365 Rust Avenue in Cape Girardeau.
Kelsey said he understood this facility would be used for
Commander’s extensive parts inventory being transferred from Oklahoma.
The Lorimont broker said the warehouse is already being utilized by
the new Cape Girardeau plane manufacturer with truckloads of parts and
inventory arriving daily. The
facility would be used for shipment of replacement parts orders for the
four-seat, single-engine Commander planes that sell for about $600,000
each. The facility would also be used for small parts
assembly to be shipped to the airport for building new aircraft.
The company will operate its primary manufacturing out of the former
Renaissance Aircraft hangar, a 52,000-square-foot
building leased from the city under an agreement finalized recently.
Commander Premier Aircraft Corp
expects to employ 45 people the first year and expand to about 100 jobs
within three years. Projections
are to build 15 planes in 2006 and up to 30 a year after that.
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