General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant

Fairfax Assembly is a General Motors automobile factory at 3201 Fairfax Trafficway, Kansas City, Kansas. The 4,900,000 sq ft (460,000 m2) plant currently employs over 2,400 hourly and salaried employees. Employees are represented by UAW Local 31.[1]

This article is about the current automotive plant on a former airfield. For the history of the airfield, the adjacent WWII federal land, and the post-war Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac plant, see Fairfax Field. For the history of the former airport, see Fairfax Airport.
The plant from the south. The runway of the old airport is on all sides

Fairfax

The original Fairfax assembly plant was located next to Fairfax Airport which was the former location of the North American Bomber Production Plant where the B-25 Mitchell was manufactured during World War II. After the war GM purchased the building and converted it to an automobile assembly plant, and was under the management of GM's newly created Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac Assembly Division created in 1945. In 1952, alongside car production, the plant produced F-84F jet-powered fighters.

Fairfax II
President George W. Bush shaking hands with Fairfax assembly line workers on March 20, 2007

The original Fairfax plant ceased production in 1986, and production was moved to Fairfax II. Fairfax II is located on the former Fairfax airport in a $1 billion project. The new plant began production with the 1988 model Pontiac Grand Prix. In 2003, production of the Chevrolet Malibu was added. On August 23, 2005, the Fairfax facility built its 10 millionth car.

Production of the second generation Buick LaCrosse began at the plant in 2009 and continued through 2016. In January 2013, GM announced $600 million in upgrades to the plant including a new 450,000-square-foot paint shop and a new stamping press. The renovations, which were aimed at reducing water consumption and chemical waste, were not expected to interfere with production.[2] In 2019, the all-new Cadillac XT4 was added.[3]

See also

References
  1. https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/company_info/facilities/assembly/fairfax.html Fairfax Assembly & Stamping Plant
  2. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/01/28/4035503/gm-plans-600m-upgrade-at-kansas.html#storylink=cpy Archived 2013-01-31 at the Wayback Machine
  3. https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/company_info/facilities/assembly/fairfax.html Fairfax Assembly & Stamping Plant

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