Asia’s ascent toward the top of the world’s aerospace market is being powered by a former colonial airbase in northern Singapore.
Once known for making mosquito coils and hair wigs, Singapore is now a hub for manufacturing the massive engines propelling Airbus Group SE’s superjumbo A380 and Boeing Co.’s Dreamliner. Those efforts are centered across the water from Malaysia at the Seletar Aerospace Park, a former mangrove swamp cleared for a British landing strip.
