GE Aviation, a subsidiary of Fairfield manufacturing giant General Electric, said it has selected Lafayette, Ind., as the location to build a $100 million facility for jet engine assembly.
The facility will assemble so-called “LEAP” engines, which stand for leading engine aviation propulsion and are the result of a collaboration between GE and French company Snecma.
The engines will power the Airbus A320neo, Boeing 737 MAX, and COMAC C919 aircraft for airlines around the world, GE said.
The factory will employ 200 by 2020. It’s the seventh such facility GE has built in seven years. All have been in the South and Midwest, including Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Ohio and North Carolina.
