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SEC files insider trading charge
- An Italian engineer, who allegedly reaped more than $2.1m in profits ahead of the merger deal by defence contractor Finmeccanica, has been charged by US regulators
£103m targeted for aircraft wing R&D
- Airbus will lead a three-year programme with the government and regional development agencies aimed at strengthening the UK's commercial aerospace industry
EADS to complete UK site sale in weeks
- GKN aiming to take 100 per cent control of the Airbus UK wing component and sub-assembly manufacturing site at Filton, near Bristol
DRS puts Finmeccanica firmly on global radar
- Italy's largest aerospace and defence group hailed its acquisition of a leading US military supplier as a 'strategic' deal that would let it market American products around the world

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