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Delaware County will celebrate its first-ever Delco Gives Day on May 8-9. More then 285 nonprofits have signed up to participate in the…
Two contracts, one by the U.S. Army to modernize the Chinook helicopter fleet, and another by the German government for 60 new Block II…
On Monday, the first updated Chinook helicopter rolled off the assembly line at the Boeing Ridley plant, writes Pete Bannan for the Daily ‘Times.
The…
Delaware County first-ever Delco Gives Day, hosted by The Foundation for Delaware County on May 8-9, now has a presenting sponsor–Power Home…
Drones and space sensors are the predominant reasons the Boeing Ridley plant benefits from a shift in thinking from the U.S. Army, writes Loren…
The Foundation for Delaware County announces four Delco Gives Day sponsors are on board for the May 8-9, 2024 event.
These game-changer sponsors…
The U.S. Army is renewing and extending a Chinook production contract for its helicopter fleet, built at the Ridley Park Boeing plant, writes Kathleen…
UPS recently informed its employees that it will require full-time office attendance, joining a small group of big companies that are pushing for five…
Since Jan. 3, 110 Delaware County nonprofits have registered for Delco Gives Day for a chance to reap the benefits of a 24-hour online…
The Foundation for Delaware County announces the launch of Delco Gives, a community giving initiative designed to unite residents, businesses, and organizations in a collective…
The in-flight blowout of a door panel on an Alaska Airlines flight on Jan.5 has grounded all Boeing 737-Max 9 passenger aircraft…
The Foundation for Delaware County announced that the Housing Opportunities Program for Equity (HOPE) has received an $80,000 grant from Boeing Philadelphia.
The Boeing…
The Boeing Ridley Park plant is furloughing 80 union employees in December, writes Pete Bannan for the Daily Times.
This is the second layoff this…
The Foundation for Delaware County has a new Delco Gives Day scheduled for May 8-9, 2024.
Delco Gives Day will be a 24-hour…
Defense contractor Boeing is paying $8.1 million to settle allegations it failed to comply with contractual manufacturing specifications when creating composite components for the…
Boeing’s Ridley Park helicopter plant has received a contract valued up to $793 million to build the final CH-47F Block I Chinooks with…
More than 25 juniors from Chester Charter Scholars Academy got a taste of college life at Neumann University from June 19-22, as part of…
You could say the Pennsylvania Institute of Technology is not the same school it was when it started 70 years ago, and you’d be…
Essington-based Piasecki Aircraft Corporation (PiAC), a pioneer in advanced rotorcraft technology, has acquired the former Lockheed Martin Sikorsky Heliplex facility in Coatesville.
PiAC will…
The Ridley Park Boeing production could be curtailed, with the plant forced to shut down two main assembly lines unless it can increase orders of…
A U.S, Army decision to award a lucrative contract to Texas-based Bell Texatron for its Valor aircraft over Boeing’s Defiant X will…
An Army proposal to stop production of Boeing’s Chinook helicopters was rejected by a House panel that controls defense spending, a victory for Delaware…
The Boeing helicopter plant in Ridley Park, with 4,000 employees, reached the last stage of production for its first CH-47F Block II Chinook…
Not surprisingly, Boeing’s Ridley Park helicopter factory has seen an uptick in orders as a result of the Ukraine war, writes Joseph N. DiStefano…
Boeing investors are focused on the company making money again after a tough few years but they should be asking instead when Boeing will have…
There’s a lot of public cash going to three Pennsylvania military contractors, including Boeing helicopter division based at the engineering and factory complex in…
The replacement helicopter for the aging Black Hawk fleet won’t be Boeing’s Defiant X model out of Ridley, according to the U.S…
William Rice of Morton flew 34 combat missions in Europe and received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2007 for his service as a Tuskegee Airman…
The Foundation for Delaware County announces that the Housing Opportunities Program for Equity (HOPE) has received a $100,000 grant from Boeing Philadelphia.
The HOPE…
A study is underway to look at how to make Route 291 in Delaware County safer and more user-friendly for the communities it passes…
The U.S. Army has grounded its CH-47 Chinook helicopter fleet of 400 due to an engine fire risk from fuel leaks.
Army officials…
Boeing’s Ridley Park plant, poised to manufacture the new Defiant helicopter, is the Philadelphia area’s largest industrial employer.
It has been building and…
In one place, you can take off in a glider. In the other, a Boeing 737.
Two different scenes. Same township name, writes Carl LaVO…
Boeing’s Ridley Park plant has a good shot at manufacturing the U.S. Army’s new generation of Black Hawk helicopters, writes Ryan Mulligan…
So what actually is being built at the Boeing plant in Ridley Park?
Over 4,000 people work at the nearly 3-million- square-foott…
A new $8.5 million permanent Space exhibit developed with a $3 million donation from Boeing will be lifting off in the fall of 2023…
I’m flying this week.
I’m not afraid of flying. I actually love to fly. It feels cosmopolitan and cultured. And who doesn’t…
The Ridley Boeing plant has come into a potentially lucrative $5.27 billion deal to produce 60 new Chinook CH-47F military helicopters for Germany…
Bruce W. Arden, an expert in the early years of computer science who once lived in Upper Darby, died Dec. 8 in Livona, Mich. He…
The Foundation for Delaware County announces the Housing Opportunities Program for Equity (HOPE) received a $100,000 grant from Boeing Philadelphia.
“Housing stability is the…
It’s looking a lot rosier in 2022 for American Airlines’ Philadelphia hub when it comes to European travel. In fact, the airline projects the…
Boeing has signed a nearly $2 billion contract with the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence for 14 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters, writes Michael Tyrrell…
Two Sun Valley High School alum have come up with a device that uses ultraviolet light to kill any coronavirus that may be lurking about…
The air cargo industry was already growing before the pandemic. Now it’s booming, writes Keith Schneider for The New York Times.
Philadelphia International Airport…
Wayne-based Eastern Airlines will begin flying out of Philadelphia International Airport Dec. 14 as the airport’s newest carrier, writes Laura Smythe for Philadelphia…
The Federal Aviation Administration has cleared Boeing’s 737 Max to again carry passengers once modifications, maintenance and inspections are performed on the planes, writes…
The impact of the pandemic has led Boeing to lower its 10-year outlook on aircraft demand by 11 percent over last year, writes Gillian…
Boeing’s Ridley rotorcraft plant faces a tough decade ahead as two of its key programs lose military funding, writes Loren Thompson for Forbes.com…
More Chinook helicopters will be manufactured at Boeing’s Ridley Park plant now that the company has won a $265 million contract from the Pentagon…
Delaware County is gently easing into reopening as the county moves to Gov. Tom Wolf’s Yellow Phase.
A “Bringing Back Delco Task Force” will…
Former Ridley Park Township Councilman Kenneth K.J. Braithwaite was confirmed by the U.S. Senate Thursday as the new Secretary of the Navy, writes…
Boeing’s Ridley Park plant is once again open for business after it shut down for two-and-a-half weeks for an enhanced COVID…
Boeing is halting its production lines for two weeks of the H-47 Chinook cargo helicopter and the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft to…
Boeing Co. said Monday it is keeping its production lines open for the Osprey craft and Chinook helicopters at its Ridley Park plant, writes Joseph…
Pennsylvania’s swing state status means the amount of military money spent in the state could influence President Trump’s re-election chances here, writes…
With a location in Ridley Park, Boeing is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, and satellites. Boeing has recently…
Local bipartisan support in Congress has resulted in restored funds for Boeing’s Army Chinook CH-47 helicopter upgrades, writes Joseph N. DiStefano for The…
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Numerous problems at American Airlines caused flight cancellations to nearly double in June, writes Ellie Rushing for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The airline, which operates 70…
With a bit of fanfare, Boeing workers and representatives, and the region’s U.S. House delegation opened a new $130 million factory at the…
As we observe the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing this Saturday, July 20, it’s important to note that Delaware County was…
Boeing Co. arrived at the world’s largest aerospace extravaganza, the Paris Air Show, battling the biggest crisis in its history. It departs having secured…
The military’s Future Years Defense Program doesn’t fund upgrades for Chinook Ch-47F helicopters at Boeing Corp.’s Ridley Township factory, as the…
This year marks the 85th anniversary of the day in 1934 when Bill Boeing resigned from the aviation enterprise he had founded only 18 years…
A new Leonardo facility in Northeast Philadelphia will train pilots, crews, and mechanics in partnership with Boeing’s plant in Ridley Park, writes Joseph DiStefano…
The long delay being considered by the U.S. Army on production of an upgraded Chinook helicopter could have devastating consequences for Boeing’s workforce…
With a location in Ridley, Boeing is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, and satellites. Boeing has recently secured…
The Delaware County Chamber of Commerce, Ridley School District students, Sen. Tom McGarrigle, and Ridley Township Commissioner Bob Willert visited The Boeing Company last Friday…
The U.S. Air Force’s $325 million contract for new UH-1N helicopters will keep hundreds of jobs at the Boeing factory in Ridley…
With a location in Ridley Park, Boeing is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, and satellites. It also provides…
Boeing has won a five-year contract worth $4.2 billion that will bring more production to the company’s plant in Ridley Park, writes…
Two Delaware County companies are among the region’s best for diversity, governance, and transparency, factors increasingly considered by investors, writes Erin Arvedlund for the…
Since the 1960s, the Chinook helicopter has been built and rebuilt at the Boeing plant in Ridley Township, along the Delaware River, writes Joseph DiStefano…
Penn State Brandywine recently welcomed seventh-grade and ninth-grade girls from Greater Philadelphia for its annual STEM Options Day, writes Michael McDade for Penn…
With a location in Ridley Park, Boeing is a multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, and satellites. It also provides leasing…
The renewed economic sanctions on Iran planned by the Trump Administration are an issue for Western companies planning to do business there, writes Joseph DiStefano…
Delaware County Community College’s 11th annual STEM Career Night will introduce prospective students from Chester and Delaware counties to the exciting world of Science…
Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems, has the following Delaware County career…
By virtue of his exploits on the basketball court at Darby-Colwyn High School in the mid-1970s, Marty Milligan earned the label of All…
With a location in Ridley Park, Boeing is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, and satellites.
Materials, Process &…
Boeing has joined forces with northeast Philadelphia chopper maker Leonardo to pitch a new helicopter to the Army to replace its aging UH-1n Huey…
Every year, it seems our communities are shaken by the tragic loss of a brave first responder, whether he or she serves as police officers…
The “de-malling” of Granite Run Mall, upscale apartments in Media, a major Hollywood production in Chester Township, and new hotels coming to Upper Darby…
A state grant worth $30 million might clear the way for Boeing to land a major military contract in Ridley Park that would provide work…
Patrick Shanahan, an executive at Boeing, has been nominated by President Trump for Deputy Defense Secretary, writes Thomas Gibbons-Neff for The Washington Post.
Shanahan…
Despite an onslaught of defense spending from the political guns of President Donald Trump, layoffs continue to threaten Boeing Corp.’s war helicopter facilities in…
Boeing, the global aeronautical giant with a facility in Ridley Park, will continue its successful collaboration with Bell Helicopters on the V-22 Osprey after…
Breaking the cycle of poverty requires both hard work and innovative approaches, both of which are exemplified by the longstanding partnership between the Community Action…
For more than two decades, one of the most reliable partners the Community Action Agency of Delaware County has had is Boeing, writes Edward T…
Employees at Boeing’s Ridley Park plant gathered to celebrate the company’s centennial and 50 years of success at its Delaware County site, writes…
A part of the Delaware County community since 1971, Oliver Heating, Cooling, Plumbing & Electrical is celebrating 45 years of successful business, writes Peg DeGrassa…
Boeing recently signed an agreement with Iran Air, signaling the latter’s intent to spend $25 billion on Boeing planes, writes Jon Gambrell and Nasser…
Delaware County’s rich helicopter heritage continues to fly high despite dwindling defense funding, the rise of drones and robots, and former helicopter factories turned…
The Boeing Company is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, and satellites. It also provides leasing and product support…
The situation has turned around dramatically for Boeing’s Dreamliner after its shaky start three years ago when it was grounded due to questions over…
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry and its Center for Workforce Information & Analysis recently released an employment situation report, and it speaks to…
Boeing – the world’s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space, and security systems – secured a major modification contract from…
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