North State Aviation, an aviation maintenance business at the Smith Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem that officially began in 2011 with a handful of employees, notified the state that it will permanently close its facility at the Smith Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem starting this week and lay off 345 people due to an “unforeseeable significant downturn in business.”
Company officials told the state in a WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act) notice that North State Aviation…