Triumph Composite Systems Inc. will lay off 10 employees permanently at its Spokane facilities, effective July 20.

Following an earlier layoff last month, this brings the total to 22 permanent layoffs at the facility since the coronavirus pandemic spread to Washington state, according to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notices filed with the Washington state Employment Security Department.

Triumph Composite Systems makes composite flight deck interior assemblies and floor panels for airplanes in a 394,000-square-foot facility at 1514 S. Flint Road, about a mile north of the Spokane International Airport. The operation here serves as a component of Triumph Aerospace Systems, which is a subsidiary of Berwyn, Pennsylvania-based Triumph Group Inc.

A representative of the company couldn’t be reached immediately for comment.

The company had 310 employees as of March 2019, according to its most recent response for the Journal’s list of leading Spokane-area manufacturers.

Triumph Group announced in its fourth-quarter earnings conference call on May 28 that it had furloughed over 4,200 employees and permanently laid off 700 salaried positions, which together represents nearly half of the company’s workforce.

Triumph’s fiscal year ends March 31.

The reductions came as the company looked to reduce operating costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has pummeled the aerospace industry and constricted the commercial aerospace sector in particular.

In the conference call, CEO Daniel Crowley says Triumph has been taking aggressive measures to “right-size” the company and will pursue military and freighter contracts to help offset losses from the commercial aerospace sector.

Since then, Triumph has recalled about 2,000 of the 4,200 furloughed employees and has resumed operations at all 36 of its factories.

In early 2019, Triumph launched a comprehensive review of its structures business. The company since has divested its 10 build-to-print machine shops, five fabrication shops, two metal finishing facilities, and its 2 million-square-foot Nashville large structures plant.

In total, Triumph company has reduced the number of aerospace structures sites to nine from 34 and has reduced staffing by over 4,000 employees, according to a press release from the company.

Moving forward, Triumph plans to close its wing program and plant in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in or around September, as well as its facility in Hawthorne, California, by the end of 2020.

In 2021, the company plans to close its Grand Prairie, Texas facility, according to its Q4 earnings presentation.