Bloomfield manufacturer Kaman Aerospace could add about 200 jobs to Jacksonville, Fla., and invest $28 million in its Northside facility for making military helicopter cockpits there if it receives roughly $3.2 million in local and state tax incentives, The Jacksonville Business Journal reports.
The Jacksonville Economic Development Commission’s board is expected to vote Thursday morning on whether to offer the incentives to the aerospace unit of Kaman Corp., the paper reported Tuesday on its Web site.
Kaman said the new jobs would pay about $46,000 annually, the paper said, citing a JEDC report.
Kaman Aerostructures, a division of Kaman Aerospace, builds and assembles parts ranging from flaps to fuselages, but its most high-profile work is building all the cockpits for the three models of Black Hawk helicopter made by Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford.
Kaman Aerostructures employs more than 400 in Jacksonville.
