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Local News - Local - July 19, 2012
Aero-Flite plans here encouraging


Covering business happenings here for the last 23 years, I've seen many companies' ambitious predictions of workforce expansion fail to materialize, typically due to unforeseeable market shifts, unrealistic expectations, or strategic retrenching.

For that reason, I was skeptical several years ago when British Columbia-based Cascade Aerospace Inc. said it expected to employ several hundred people within five years at a U.S. offshoot aircraft maintenance and modification facility it...


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