A Legacy Rooted in American Aviation
Few cities can offer an aerospace and defense company what Grand Prairie can: a market shaped by nearly a century of aviation leadership. Lockheed Martin alone employs roughly 5,000 people here, and that scale reflects a local workforce with real, deep experience in aircraft design, manufacturing, and systems integration — talent your company can tap into from day one.
A Concentration of Industry Leaders
Locating in Grand Prairie means locating alongside the companies that define the industry. Vought Aircraft Industries — formerly Vought Systems of Northrop Grumman before its 2001 acquisition by the Carlyle Group — is capable of building every part of an aircraft and serves as a team member on nearly all major commercial aircraft programs in development today. Add in companies like Turbomeca and Sagem, manufacturing microjets and avionics systems, and longtime suppliers like Control Products and Texstar producing everything from navigation systems to F-16 canopies, and you have a supply chain most regions spend decades trying to build.
A Supply Chain Built Over Decades
That's the advantage of choosing Grand Prairie: an established network of airframe, avionics, and precision-component expertise already in place, plus a skilled labor pool ready to support your operation. As the industry moves toward emerging technologies, your company grows alongside an ecosystem built to evolve with it.
Did You Know? The North American Aviation plant that opened in Grand Prairie in 1941 was the first aircraft production facility in the nation built entirely windowless, fully air-conditioned, and artificially lit — an innovation that set the standard for wartime aircraft manufacturing.
