July 1 - Boeing said on Monday it would buy its struggling supplier Spirit AeroSystems in a $4.7 billion deal which was finalized after months of talks, as the aerospace giant tries to solve a full-blown safety and regulatory crisis that has engulfed its key supplier as well.

(Reporting by Mike Stone and David Shepardson in Washington, Allison Lampert in Montreal and Shivansh Tiwary, Abhijith Ganapavaram and Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur, David Gaffen and Matthew Lewis; Editing by Mrigank Dhaniwala)