The United States was ranked first in the world in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ 2017 Aerospace Manufacturing Attractiveness Rankings, and Florida was No. 6 among the best states for the aerospace and defense industry manufacturing.

While Florida fell four spots this year to sixth place, that’s due in part to a change in PwC’s methodology for the creating the listings, said Scott Thompson, who leads PwC’s U.S. Aerospace and Defense group.

In its report, PwC said the global aerospace and defense…