Boeing at home in Grant Co.
Kandyce Pratt, an aircraft mechanic for Boeing, besides one of the company’s 737 MAX aircraft currently stored in Moses Lake. Pratt and her husband Ed Connor, who also works for Boeing, relocated to Moses Lake from the West Side.
“This feels like home now. We both want to stay,” she said.
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Valdis Martinsons, Moses Lake site director for Boeing, in front of the company’s giant hangar at the Grant County International Airport. Built for a cost of $8 million in 1956, and capable of holding eight large B-52 bombers or KC-135 tankers, the hangar is now the centerpiece of the company’s 737 MAX storage and maintenance operations.
MOSES LAKE — When Boeing first started moving 737 MAX aircraft to the Grant County International Airport, it was only going to be for a few months.
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