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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Business
Matthew Kelly

Hunter areospace manufacturing facility set to be lost overseas

English cricket legend turned UK trade envoy Sir Ian Botham visited Martin-Baker Australia at Williamtown in late 2022. Pictured with Andrew Eden, managing director of Martin-Baker Australia. Picture by Max Mason-Hubers.

More than a hundred high tech jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in export revenue stand to be lost overseas because of planning uncertainty surrounding the Williamtown aerospace precinct.

British-based ejection seat company Martin-Baker has been performing maintenance, repair and overhaul work for the RAAF's Super Hornet, Growler, Joint Strike Fighter and PC21 aircraft at Williamtown since 2017.

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