Agreed, where I was growing up in the U.S. we had a bunch of regional parts manufacturers and Boeing contracts were always prized My dad was a union guy working at one of those factories for a while before it got bought out by a larger multinational corp. AFAIK they ended up shifting a lot of that manufacturing out of the U.S. into Mexico while downsizing the U.S. operations. That’s kind of how it goes in that industry :/
Haha reminds me of Death Star Repairmen, classic fan film
https://youtu.be/abpyt86Wqeg?si=mz2TBUA2D2t2Rn4T