A Hawker de Havilland employee puts the finishing touches to an MD-80 series elevator, a contract that Hawkers have held for many years.

HdH Boosting International Manufacturing

Hawker de Havilland 60th Anniversary Special Feature

International Manufacturing, a Major Hoh Success Story

In today’s highly competitive international aerospace environment, any company that can claim almost half a billion dollars worth of manufacturing subcontracts must have done something very right indeed. That’s the record of Hawker de Havilland at Bankstown since its first tentative steps into the international arena at the end of the 1960s.

HdH have been building wing ribs for the A300, A310 and more latterly the A320 and hope to become 1umor partners on the soon-to-be-launched A330l340 aircraft.

HdH’s story of continuing success in high-technology aerospace exports should be an object lesson for those Australians who doubt our country’s industrial ability to compete internationally.

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