Several major firms will form the UK Aerospace Technology Institute, including Airbus and the aerospace division of Rolls Royce, which has its main UK facility in Derby.

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The BAE division that would work with Lockheed is its prestigious combat-aircraft facility at Warton in northwest England.

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But a spokesman for the state Division of Military and Naval Affairs says it has no plans to vacate the facility because it's the only armory in the Adirondacks.

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