Month: January 2012

Building on aircraft repair. LSI finds plenty of military talent in Pensacola.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

When the Department of Defense closed the Naval Aviation Depot in 1993, Pensacola lost 2,600 civilian jobs, abruptly ending its 80-year history of repairing aircraft. But nearly two decades later, that legacy of aircraft repair is undergoing a renaissance of sorts in a large metal building on Olive Road in north Pensacola.Now under the banner…