Aerospace Industry Ventura County

About 120 Ventura County jobs will be lost as a result of the sale of most of the Moorpark division of Metal Bellows, a producer of parts used in aerospace and heavy industry. Metal Bellows' parent, Parker Hannifin Corp., closed a deal last week to sell almost all of the Moorpark operation and a sister unit in Sharon, Mass., to Chicago-based Senior Flexonics Inc. Parker Hannifin, based in Cleveland, is best known as a producer of industrial and aerospace control devices.

Two investor groups have sold their shares in Whittaker Corp., a Simi Valley-based supplier of aircraft parts and systems. Money manager Paul Blavin and his affiliates sold their 8.54% stake, a total of 969,376 shares, at $27.51 each, according to papers filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. An investment group that includes Waveland Partners LP also sold its entire 6.98% stake, 798,432 shares, for $27.45 apiece, according to the SEC. The Waveland group, headed by David S.

Abex Aerospace to Close Oxnard Plant: Abex Aerospace Co., which closed a plant in Santa Maria earlier this year, will shut down its operations in Oxnard, eliminating about 550 jobs. The company said that, because of a dwindling aerospace market, it will close the factory where hydraulic aircraft parts are made. It said the shutdown will come sometime in the next nine to 15 months.

About 120 Ventura County jobs will be lost as a result of the sale of most of the Moorpark division of Metal Bellows, a producer of parts used in aerospace and heavy industry. Metal Bellows' parent, Parker Hannifin Corp., closed a deal last week to sell almost all of the Moorpark operation and a sister unit in Sharon, Mass., to Chicago-based Senior Flexonics Inc. Parker Hannifin, based in Cleveland, is best known as a producer of industrial and aerospace control devices.

The Westlake Village plant of Control Products Corp., which makes illuminated control panels for helicopters and other aircraft, will close its doors for good on July 3, according to John Pettersen, vice president and general manager. The company, which was founded in Venice in 1958 and moved to Ventura County in 1977, is a victim of the aerospace squeeze and environmental regulations, Pettersen said.

Abex Aerospace, the Oxnard concern that has been the subject of rumors that it might be shut down, probably will remain in business, but in a different form than in the past, a company official predicts. Abex, whose 650 employees currently produce hydraulic pumps, valves and other equipment for the aerospace industry, will move out of defense work.

Concern for the safety of its employees has prompted a company based in inner-city Los Angeles to decide to move to Ventura County, marking one of the first such relocations in the wake of the recent Los Angeles riots. The Robert M. Hadley Co., a 63-year-old concern that produces transformers and other items for the aerospace industry, has offered its 120 employees in South-Central Los Angeles a chance to transfer from the firm's main plant to a branch facility in Ventura, said John R.

Two investor groups have sold their shares in Whittaker Corp., a Simi Valley-based supplier of aircraft parts and systems. Money manager Paul Blavin and his affiliates sold their 8.54% stake, a total of 969,376 shares, at $27.51 each, according to papers filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. An investment group that includes Waveland Partners LP also sold its entire 6.98% stake, 798,432 shares, for $27.45 apiece, according to the SEC. The Waveland group, headed by David S.

Litton Industries, facing cutbacks in defense budgets, will transfer its Aero Products division to an existing Litton operation in Canoga Park this fall as scheduled but will close its 600-employee plant in Moorpark, where it is the city's second-largest employer. Litton had planned to move its Data Systems operations, which employs 1,500 people in Agoura Hills and Van Nuys, to Moorpark. Instead, it will consolidate the Data Systems operations at its Agoura Hills facility.

With the area already reeling from loss of defense and aerospace jobs, federal officials said that budget cuts proposed by the Clinton Administration would eliminate about 145 jobs next year and slow environmental cleanup work at Rockwell International's laboratory near Simi Valley. The proposed cuts in support for nuclear research could idle 115 Rockwell employees involved in testing non-nuclear components for atomic reactors, said John Belluardo, a spokesman at the U.S.

With the area already reeling from loss of defense and aerospace jobs, federal officials said that budget cuts proposed by the Clinton Administration would eliminate about 145 jobs next year and slow environmental cleanup work at Rockwell International's laboratory near Simi Valley. The proposed cuts in support for nuclear research could idle 115 Rockwell employees involved in testing non-nuclear components for atomic reactors, said John Belluardo, a spokesman at the U.S.

Abex Aerospace to Close Oxnard Plant: Abex Aerospace Co., which closed a plant in Santa Maria earlier this year, will shut down its operations in Oxnard, eliminating about 550 jobs. The company said that, because of a dwindling aerospace market, it will close the factory where hydraulic aircraft parts are made. It said the shutdown will come sometime in the next nine to 15 months.

Abex Aerospace, the Oxnard concern that has been the subject of rumors that it might be shut down, probably will remain in business, but in a different form than in the past, a company official predicts. Abex, whose 650 employees currently produce hydraulic pumps, valves and other equipment for the aerospace industry, will move out of defense work.

Concern for the safety of its employees has prompted a company based in inner-city Los Angeles to decide to move to Ventura County, marking one of the first such relocations in the wake of the recent Los Angeles riots. The Robert M. Hadley Co., a 63-year-old concern that produces transformers and other items for the aerospace industry, has offered its 120 employees in South-Central Los Angeles a chance to transfer from the firm's main plant to a branch facility in Ventura, said John R.

The Westlake Village plant of Control Products Corp., which makes illuminated control panels for helicopters and other aircraft, will close its doors for good on July 3, according to John Pettersen, vice president and general manager. The company, which was founded in Venice in 1958 and moved to Ventura County in 1977, is a victim of the aerospace squeeze and environmental regulations, Pettersen said.

Litton Industries, facing cutbacks in defense budgets, will transfer its Aero Products division to an existing Litton operation in Canoga Park this fall as scheduled but will close its 600-employee plant in Moorpark, where it is the city's second-largest employer. Litton had planned to move its Data Systems operations, which employs 1,500 people in Agoura Hills and Van Nuys, to Moorpark. Instead, it will consolidate the Data Systems operations at its Agoura Hills facility.

Authorities are asking the public's help in locating relatives of a man whose body was found among a thick clump of bamboo reeds on the beach at Surfer's Knoll in Ventura. Dennis Michael Ziegler , 57, died about a week ago from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the head, said Craig Stevens, senior deputy coroner at the medical examiner's office. Ziegler's body was spotted about 6 p.m. Tuesday by a man strolling on a stretch of coastline across from Ventura Harbor.