COMMANDER PREMIER AIRCRAFT LEASES WAREHOUSE FACILITY
2365 Rust Avenue - Cape Girardeau, MO
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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