Textron Aviation lays off more workers

Textron Aviation has announced more layoffs.

The Wichita Eagle reports (http://j.mp/2g0tkYq) that the layoffs occurred Thursday. But the company isn’t providing details about how many people were let go from the company, which has three campuses in Wichita.

Textron manufactures business jets as well as turboprop airplanes and also operates a plant in Independence. Company spokeswoman Rosa Lee Argotsinger said Textron’s streamlining with “workforce reductions in order to improve our overall operating efficiency.”

Textron Aviation doesn’t routinely disclose how many Wichita employees it has, but said last December it had about 9,000 employees in Kansas.

The company also announced an unknown number of layoffs in October.


Information from: The Wichita (Kan.) Eagle, http://www.kansas.com.