Over a month ago, the airport announced that they are building a new terminal and runway. Construction starts in a couple of years. Funding is lined up. Our Engines campus is in the way of this expansion. The way things are going lately, does our leadership even know about this? Are we moving production somewhere close? Or are we going to find a new home in another state?
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Not true, at MTOW the 757 gets cleanly airborne from DVT at full balanced field length with about 1000 ft to spare.
Also the 757 isn't long for the world. HTF-NG doesn't fit, too big. A new large test AC will be needed.
Flight test can't go to Deer Valley airport. Their runway is too short for the 757.
Engines is okay for a good long while in their current site.
Flight test is moving much sooner. They are going to Mesa in the next year or two. Why they chose Mesa over Deer Valley is a decision nobody has coherently explained to me yet.
No 4th runway yet: destinationphx2050.com
We're still safe at engines.
Instead of planning ahead like a normal multibillion dollar company, we are now panic spending $500 Million dollars to hastily shove the entire airport operation into a shiny new facility in Tempe by 2028.
Get ready for years of absolute chaos, missing parts, and endless executive PPT's gaslighting everyone into believeing that getting evicted by the airport is a "strategic modernization initiative".
Good luck to everyone trying to cram an entire engines campus into Priest and Warner while management pretends this was the plan all along!
The growth would be west of Terminal 3. "Engines" is situated north of Terminal 4. HONA has decades left on their lease with the City of Phoenix. The infrastructure investment there is significant and would require $$$ to replace anywhere else. Mexicali has proved you can't just build 7 miles over the border and yield productive results. Besides HSE&F probably wouldn't like shovels going into the dirt there at Engines if you know what I mean.