# Boeing to buy Spirit AeroSystems in $4.7B stock deal

Boeing will acquire Spirit AeroSystems, the world's largest standalone aerostructures company, in a $4.7 billion stock deal. Airbus will take over core activities at four Spirit AeroSystems plants.

- Type: Acquisition
- Announced: 2024-06-25
- Where: Wichita, Kansas, United States
- Value: $4.70B
- Status: announced
- Products: aerostructures
- Sectors: [Aerospace Components](https://endata.com/sectors/aerospace-components.md)

## Companies

- [Boeing](https://endata.com/companies/685.md) (acquirer)
- [Airbus](https://endata.com/companies/1653.md) (acquirer)
- [Airbus](https://endata.com/companies/1653.md) (partner)
- [Spirit AeroSystems](https://endata.com/companies/16652.md) (target)

## Sources

- [reuters.com](https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spirit-aeros-plants-focus-boeing-airbus-near-deal-carve-up-supplier-2024-06-25/), 2024-06-25: "Boeing agrees to buy the world's largest standalone aerostructures company in a $4.7 billion stock deal."
- [flightglobal.com](https://www.flightglobal.com/airframers/boeing-agrees-to-acquire-spirit-aerosystems-report/158961.article), 2024-06-30: "Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems have reportedly agreed to terms under which Boeing will acquire the struggling Wichita-based aerostructures supplier for $37.25 per share."
- [reuters.com](https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/boeing-agrees-deal-buy-spirit-aero-3725-per-share-sources-2024-06-30/), 2024-06-30: "Boeing will pay $37.25 per share for Spirit Aero, in an all-stock deal."
- [boeing.mediaroom.com](https://boeing.mediaroom.com/news-releases-statements?item=131443), 2024-07-01: "We’ve reached a definitive agreement to acquire Spirit AeroSystems."
- [investors.boeing.com](https://investors.boeing.com/investors/news/press-release-details/2024/Boeing-to-Acquire-Spirit-AeroSystems/), 2024-07-01: "By reintegrating Spirit, we can fully align our commercial production systems, including our Safety and Quality Management Systems, and our workforce to the same priorities, incentives and outcomes – centered on safety and quality."
- [reuters.com](https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/boeing-buy-spirit-aero-47-bln-deal-after-months-talks-2024-07-01/), 2024-07-01: "This is an opportunity to bring back critical airplane manufacturing work on Boeing airplanes into our factories."
- [seattletimes.com](https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-to-acquire-troubled-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-with-airbus-parts-split-off/), 2024-07-01: "This is an opportunity to bring back critical airplane manufacturing work on Boeing airplanes into our factories."
- [sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12927/000119312524172682/d838733d425.htm), 2024-07-01: "On June 30, 2024, The Boeing Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger... to acquire Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc."
- [aviationpros.com](https://www.aviationpros.com/aircraft/news/55092996/in-depth-boeing-to-acquire-troubled-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-with-airbus-parts-split-off), 2024-07-01: "Boeing said the merger is an all-stock transaction at an equity value of about $4.7 billion."
- [sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1364885/000110465924076561/tm2418602d3_425.htm), 2024-07-01: "We announced an agreement through which Boeing will acquire Spirit. We also announced that we have signed a binding term sheet under which Airbus will assume ownership of certain Spirit assets."
- [indiablooms.com](https://www.indiablooms.com/phoenix/public/finance/boeing-agrees-to-acquire-spirit-aerosystems-in-47bn-deal/details), 2024-07-01: "We believe this deal is in the best interest of the flying public, our airline customers, the employees of Spirit and Boeing, our shareholders and the country more broadly."
- [pbs.org](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/boeing-to-acquire-key-supplier-spirit-for-4-7-billion-amid-push-to-improve-safety), 2024-07-01: "We believe this deal is in the best interest of the flying public, our airline customers, the employees of Spirit and Boeing, our shareholders and the country more broadly."
- [aviationpros.com](https://www.aviationpros.com/aircraft-maintenance-technology/aircraft-technology/news/55092996/in-depth-boeing-to-acquire-troubled-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-with-airbus-parts-split-off), 2024-07-01: "This is an opportunity to bring back critical airplane manufacturing work on Boeing airplanes into our factories."

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