Production is set to restart this week on Cessna’s high-performance Corvalis 350 and 400-series aircraft, five months after the company shut down its plant in Bend, Ore.

The plane’s carbon-fiber fuselage and wings will be made at a Cessna plant in Mexico, while the rest of the assembly work will happen in Independence, Kan., in the same plant where Cessna makes its other single-engine piston planes, the Wichita Eagle reported. About 30 of the 200 people who used to work at the Bend plant have moved to Kansas and will keep their jobs; the rest were laid off. Cessna’s purchase of the bankrupt Columbia Aircraft Manufacturing’s assets in 2007 was a strategic move to give Cessna an aircraft model that could compete with Cirrus Aircraft. But with the slowing economy, orders for the Corvalis line dried up. By now, officials say, most of the stock of completed Corvalis planes have been sold, with only a handful left. Production on the new line will start slowly before ramping up in the spring and reaching full speed in 2011, Cessna says.