Airbus Mobile Second A320 Final Assembly Line

Airbus has been building commercial aircraft in Alabama since 2015. The site has tripled since then, and the newest piece of it doubles what Mobile can turn out.

The second A320-family final assembly line at the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley was inaugurated on October 13, 2025, giving the campus three assembly lines total: two for the A320 family and one for the A220. It’s a 350,000-sq-ft building combining manufacturing, office and logistics space, and it feeds directly into the company’s target of 75 A320-family aircraft per month across its global network by 2027.

Project Scope

Brasfield & Gorrie built the assembly line itself, with Hoar Program Management running the program including procurement of design and construction providers. BRPH handled architecture on the FAL, and BL Harbert International teamed with FSB on related structures across the wider expansion.

Gulf Coast soils drove the foundation design. Brasfield & Gorrie self-performed more than 2,000 displacement piles for the FAL alone, along with over 1,200 cubic meters of foundation concrete.

The assembly building is one piece of a larger package. The broader Mobile expansion delivered more than a million square feet of double-bay A320 hangars and quad-bay A220 hangars, two additional paint shops, a distribution center, an expanded transhipment hangar and delivery center, and a new welcome center.

Why It Matters

This is what reshoring looks like when it isn’t a press release. Mobile now employs more than 2,000 people across 2.5 million sq ft, and the new line adds roughly 1,000 jobs on top of that. The first A320 off it went to United Airlines in early 2026.

For contractors, the interesting part is the delivery structure. Airbus ran the expansion through a program manager rather than a single prime, splitting scope across multiple general contractors working concurrently on a live aerospace campus. That model shows up more and more on large industrial work, where the owner wants parallel packages and is willing to carry the coordination risk to get schedule.

Mobile’s first A320 line opened September 14, 2015, and has delivered 600 aircraft since. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey and Airbus Commercial Aircraft CEO Christian Scherer opened the second one a decade later, almost to the month.

Project Team & Details