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Northrop Grumman Aircraft Door Center celebrates successful year
Company employees are also active in community projects, activities
By Wayne Raoen
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Integrated Systems and
Aerostructures Sector Air
craft Door Center facility
in Perry is part of
Northrop Grumman Corp.,
one of the world's premier
defense electronics firms with
healthy military aircraft, com
mercial aircraft, and information
systems businesses.
Since 1991, airplane compo
nents for the Boeing 747 have
been built in Perry. Early in
1997, the corporation announced
it had been selected by The Boe
ing Co. to produce aircraft doors
for the Boeing 737, 757. and 767
airplanes, as well as additional
doors for the 747.
This new production of 28
additional doors, which will
extend into the next century, is
being consolidated with the cur-
Create a special feeling with gifts
and accessories from Impressions
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
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Whether you're looking for a gift or a
splurge to brighten your own day, Impres
sions is a good place to start.
Located at 912 Carroll St., Impressions
is a sunny downtown Perry shop with an
carefully chosen collection of accessories
for your home, your bath, and even your
wardrobe.
Also, you can count on Elizabeth Flow
ers and her staff to have something new
for you to see almost every time you visit.
Brighton leather accessories are among
the newest lines at Impressions. These sil
ver-trimmed belts, watches, wallets and
“bandits" (leather bracelets) have a dis
tinct style of their own. Flowers said the
items are popular with teens as well as
women of all ages.
Impressions also offers Brighton sun
glasses. and will present a line of
Brighton handbags and jewelry beginning
this fall.
Shoppers ?t Impressions can also buy
engraveable silvei jewelry by Tiger Lily
and Heartstrings. There’s a complete line
of Vera Bradley travel luggage.
The main thing which catches most
shoppers’ eyes on entering the shop is the
wide array of colorful items for home and
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rent passenger and cargo door
work at the Aircraft Door Center
in Perry.
In March, 1998, the company
announced it had signed a mem
orandum of agreement with Boe
ing to produce two additional
passenger doors for each 747 jet
liner, making Northrop Grumman
the sole supplier of aircraft doors
for the 747 and bringing to 41
the total number of doors pro
duced in Perry.
The Aircraft Doors Center has
accomplished a great deal over
the past year:
V delivering a door every 40
minutes:
V delivering 64 ships sets of
floor beams this year;
V completing the first build of
the newly designed 737 Main
Deck Cargo Door;
V completing the 747 Fuselage
Frame Assembly work.
Today the site has become not
bath. Impressions offers everything from
teapots to decorative trays, from framed
prints to silver picture frames, from stain
less flatware o hand painted flower pots,
and new items are coming in all the time.
Flowers said a new line of pottery by St.
Simons Island potter Heather Shadron
Branch will be in soon.
What else? Here’s just a sampling of
the other lines available: Thymes Limited
bath items, Wilton Armatale American
made metal servers, Arthur Court decora
tive aluminum servingware and china by
Port Meirion, Villeroy & Boch and Ralph
Lauren.
Other lines include Coasterstone coast
ers. kitchen utensils by Oxo, home fra
grances by Clare Burke, bath and body
products by Upper Canada, Howard Miller
clocks and candles of every color, style
and fragrance.
Flowers and her staff also prepare
beautiful gift baskets loaded down with
Georgia gourmet products and other
items from the shop. They also offer deliv
eries, gift selection and a bridal registry.
Kay Parkerson, Jackie Burrow and
Katie Moore are ready to help you at
Impressions, which is open Monday
through Friday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
and on Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5
p.m. The telephone number is 987-2255.
Houston County
... now and in the future
The Aircraft Door Center employees are proud of their com
munity and volunteer efforts, such as; United Way, Walk
America (March of Dimes), Canned Food Drive and Relay For
Life (American Cancer Society).
only one of the largest civilian
employers of Houston County
but also a partner in the commu
nities where employees live.
The Aircraft Door Center
employees are proud of their
community and volunteer efforts,
such as; United Way, Walk Amer
ica (March of Dimes), Canned
Food Drive and Relay For Life
(American Cancer Society).
The employees are proud to
say Northrop Grumman employ
ees have been awarded “Number
One Team” in dollar contribu
tions to those efforts.
In addition to supporting vol
unteer efforts. Aircraft Door Cen
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READY TO IMPRESS Store owner
Elizabeth Flowers inspects a display oj
decorative Brighton leather accessory
ter employees support education
al programs through their Part
ners in Education program. High
School Involvement Program, and
volunteer efforts through PTOs
and other school sanctioned pro
grams.
Members of the Northrop
Grumman team at the Aircraft
Door Center also participate on
the Perry Area Chamber of Com
merce and serve on countywide
boards such as the Airport
Authority and "Kids Journey" of
Houston County.
The Aircraft Doors Center in
Perry reports to the Aerostruc
tures business unit of the
Wed., Aug. 4, 1999, Houston Home Journal -
Special Photo
PUTTING IT TOGETHER
A Northrop Grumman
employee assembles
parts for aircraft frames
at the plant located in
Perry.
Northrop Grumman Integrated
Systems and Aerostructure Sec
tor, headquartered in Dallas.
ISA is a premier aerospace sys
tems integration enterprise with
capabilities to design, develop,
integrate, produce, and support
complete systems, as well as air
craft, airborne electronic warfare
aircraft, air combat aircraft, and
commercial aerostructures.
Northrop Grumman Corp.,
headquartered in Los Angeles, is
a leading designer, systems inte
grator and manufacturer of mili
tary and surveillance and combat
aircraft. The company also pro
duces defense electronics and
systems, airspace management
and information systems, marine
propulsion, precision weapons,
space systems, and commercial
and military aerostructures.
The plant is located along the
North Perry Parkway near 1-75 at
Exit 43A (138).
Home Journal Photo by Charlotte Perkina
belts at Impressions, a store for gifts and
accessories for home, bath and wardrobe.
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