Georgia is known for selling pecans, poultry, peanuts and pine trees around the world, but its exports of planes and their parts are the ones really bringing home the cash for the state. 

While filling up more shipping containers, agricultural products (excluding pulp and paper) accounted for less than 10 percent of the value of the state’s record $37.6 billion in exports last year. 

“Transportation equipment”, mostly made up of aircraft and their components, brought in nearly $10 billion, showing how the state has quietly taken off as an international aerospace powerhouse, with products being sent to nearly every country. 

“There are very few places where something that was made and developed in Georgia is not (sold),” said Steve Justice, director of the state’s Center of Innovation for Aerospace. 

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