Belfast’s Spirit AeroSystems has revived plans to extend its main base here to build increase the production of wings for Airbus passenger jets.

B elfast used to be known as a place where weapons were fired rather than made. But a nondescript factory in a suburb of ...

The Short 330 was developed in 1976 by Short Brothers, an aerospace company from Belfast. The aircraft design was based on ...

The investment builds on Belfast's proud tradition of aeronautical engineering and will see the creation of a ...

The city had no searchlights and only 16 heavy anti-aircraft guns. Liverpool, by comparison, had 96. Belfast also had the lowest number of public air raid shelters of any major city in Britain.

suffered an emergency incident at Belfast City Airport at around 4pm on December 22, as it attempted to land in 'adverse weather conditions'. It appeared that the aircraft's nose wheel collapsed ...

It adds: "We blend technologies from aeroplanes and airships with different types of propulsion to create sustainable aircraft with unique capabilities." The Liverpool to Belfast route is one ...