Business View Magazine | December 2019

200 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2019 close to 16 years. They have approximately 185 students at any given time and graduate close to 70 percent of those. Many of their graduates then stay in the area, if not on the airport then down at Philadelphia International working for the airlines.” But the bulk of the 1,300 employees that work at Northeast Philadelphia work at Leonardo, the Airport’s largest tenant. “They account for about 900 of our employees,” Brewer says. “Most of them are either mechanics or engineers. They’re a helicopter production company. They make several model helicopters – the 109, 119, 169. They’ve recently partnered with Boeing to make a military helicopter, the MH-139. It’s built, tested, and flown here, and then it goes down to Boeing where it gets all the armament put on. Leonardo also has a new helicopter called the AW609. It’s going to be the first-ever civilian tilt rotor helicopter and it’ll be made here on the Airport. We’re hoping to see the first delivery of that going out to the buyer in late 2020.” Back Hangars Plane Parking