Del Marsh sells aerospace company

Staff Report

Aerospace Coatings International is under new ownership.

The Oxford company, which employs 130 people, belonged to state Sen. Del Marsh, R-Anniston, until mid-October. Officials of the company say the business has been sold to the Wencor Group, a Utah.-based aircraft parts company. Neither Marsh nor officials of his former company would disclose the amount of the sale.

“I don’t think that’s something Wencor would like me to reveal,” Marsh said.

Marsh, president pro tem of the Alabama Senate, founded the company, which refurbishes worn or broken airplane parts, in the 1990s.

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