Bankstown. Quickstep gets new contract

Quickstep Holdings, based at Bankstown Airport, has secured its second long term agreement with Northrop Grumman to manufacture parts for the international F-35 Lightening Strike Fighter program, allowing the company to manufacture more complex parts for the aircraft. The company said the Bankstown site is the most advanced independent composites manufacturing facility in the southern hemisphere. It will begin production of advanced carbon fibre composites for the F-35 and C130 Hercules in the fourth quarter of this year.