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Aug 14, 2012 (newstodate): Air Maintenance Estonia, based at Tallinn Airport, is on schedule with its new maintenance hangar project at the airport.
The new hangar will cover a total of 14,000 sq m including three maintenance bays, back shops, offices and facilities, and the bays will be designed to allow for heavy maintenance work on both Airbus and Boeing aircraft simultaneously.
-We are right now signing the acceptance papers and taking over the new hangar, and the very first aircraft has been moved in to test and check the space, says David Williams, new AME managing director & CEO since April 2, 2012.
-After that, the first aircraft to enter the new facility will be towed in on September 3, followed by the official opening on September 5, 2012.
-We are currently installing equipment and systems, and the entire process has been fully on-time and on-schedule.
-With our new facilities we will have the capacity to serve not only scheduled maintenance customers but also perform non-planned maintenance jobs for ad-hoc customers and aircraft leasing companies that often require fast response to calls for checks and maintenance when aircraft are in the process of allocation to new operators, or return from customers after the expiry of leasing contracts.
-These tasks require a high level of flexibility and capacity that was not earlier at our disposal with our former facility.
-Much attention has also been given to establishing efficient workshops to support also aircraft interior maintenance and cabin reconfiguration, supported by our own engineering competencies.
Further down the line is also the construction of a third hangar to be used for aircraft painting.
Under a JV with a yet-unannounced partner, this facility is expected to become operational within six to 12 months after the inauguration of the new maintenance hangar.
The new hangar will cover a total of 14,000 sq m including three maintenance bays, back shops, offices and facilities, and the bays will be designed to allow for heavy maintenance work on both Airbus and Boeing aircraft simultaneously.
-We are right now signing the acceptance papers and taking over the new hangar, and the very first aircraft has been moved in to test and check the space, says David Williams, new AME managing director & CEO since April 2, 2012.
-After that, the first aircraft to enter the new facility will be towed in on September 3, followed by the official opening on September 5, 2012.
-We are currently installing equipment and systems, and the entire process has been fully on-time and on-schedule.
-With our new facilities we will have the capacity to serve not only scheduled maintenance customers but also perform non-planned maintenance jobs for ad-hoc customers and aircraft leasing companies that often require fast response to calls for checks and maintenance when aircraft are in the process of allocation to new operators, or return from customers after the expiry of leasing contracts.
-These tasks require a high level of flexibility and capacity that was not earlier at our disposal with our former facility.
-Much attention has also been given to establishing efficient workshops to support also aircraft interior maintenance and cabin reconfiguration, supported by our own engineering competencies.
Further down the line is also the construction of a third hangar to be used for aircraft painting.
Under a JV with a yet-unannounced partner, this facility is expected to become operational within six to 12 months after the inauguration of the new maintenance hangar.