[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION: Tinker AFB (OK) takes over former GM plant

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New life for former GM plant in Oklahoma

ROCHELLE HINES
Associated Press/Long Island Newsday
August 17, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Tinker Air Force Base officials gave political and 
business leaders and the media a look Monday at the new addition to the 
Tinker Aerospace Complex inside the shuttered General Motors Assembly Plant.

Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., and state Treasurer Scott Meacham were on hand 
for a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house at the addition, where 
workers will repair and maintain engines from Air Force and Navy 
aircraft such as the TF33 and the F-117.

The 76th Maintenance Wing operations and other defense missions will be 
housed at the facility. Several operations already have moved into the 
building, and the 76th Commodities Maintenance Group began transferring 
its sheet metal shop into the building last week.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/new-life-for-former-gm-plant-in-oklahoma-1.1375014

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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