The phrase "airplane unit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific component or section of an airplane, or in contexts related to aviation or aircraft manufacturing.
Example: "The maintenance team is currently inspecting the airplane unit to ensure all systems are functioning properly."
Alternatives: "aircraft component" or "aviation unit".
The bright spot was the military business, which surpassed the airplane unit with revenue of $6.3 billion, up 18percentt.
The bride's father works in Auburn, Wash., as an analyst for the fabrication division of the commercial airplane unit of Boeing.
First Choice, a vacation provider, will buy six 7E7's, while Blue Panorama, a Rome-based charter airline, will buy four, Marlin Dailey, vice president for European sales at Boeing's commercial airplane unit, said at a London news conference.
James F. Albaugh, chief executive of Boeing's commercial airplane unit, said his company would raise the production rate of the 737 model to 35 aircraft per month from 31.5 early next year, to 38 in the second quarter of 2013 and finally to 42 in the first half of 2014, to service a backlog of 2,100 orders.
The airplane unit wasn't keeping up with Gulfstream, so on the block it went.
Warren E. Buffett, the company's chairman and chief executive, has said Berkshire's energy business and the Geico car insurer are thriving amid the recession, though its jewelry, home building and airplane units have suffered.
The cuts at Boeing are coming in its commercial airplanes unit, which is expecting fewer orders.
Relations between the engineers and the company had grown increasingly bitter in recent days, and Alan Mulally, head of the company's commercial airplanes unit, said on Monday that some engineers were "maliciously attacking our company and deliberately trying to destroy our reputation" by telling airlines and government officials that new airplanes were unsafe for delivery.
The insurer American International Group reported late Thursday that it lost $4 billion in the last three months of 2012 as it absorbed billions of dollars of losses related to damage caused by Hurricane Sandy and the sale of its airplane leasing unit.
The American International Group agreed on Sunday to sell up to 90 percent of its extensive airplane leasing unit to a group of Chinese investors in a deal that valued the business at about $5.28 billion.
SEATTLE, Oct. 2 — The Boeing Company has promoted the longtime head of its sales team for the Asia-Pacific region to vice president of the commercial airplane sales unit here, the company said on Monday.
