Learjet and its parent, Bombardier, have started another multi-million-dollar expansion, this time with a new 6,500m2 (70,000ft2) paint and completion centre at Wichita.
"By the time this facility is complete in early November, it will be able to handle 130 aircraft a year," says Learjet president Mac Beatson. "Of those aircraft, 60 will be new Learjet 45s. The rest will be a combination of customer aircraft in for work at our customer-service centre," he adds.
Only two weeks earlier, Bombardier and Learjet opened a $10 million expansion to the Bombardier Flight Test Center, located at the Learjet site.
The centre was expanded to handle aircraft of the size of the Canadair Global Express and the de Havilland Dash 8 Series 400.
Source: Flight International
