Switzerland-based AMAC Aerospace has bolstered its in-house design offering and is showcasing its capabilities at MEBA using a fully outfitted Bombardier Global Express on the static park.
The Cayman Islands-registered aircraft – currently up for sale – is the first project to have been entirely designed by its own team and the firm believes it highlights its potential in the field.
“This demonstrates AMAC’s ability to provide A to Z turn-key solutions for an aircraft of this size,” says Waleed Muhiddin, vice-president strategic operations and business development.
Meanwhile, AMAC has added another pair of narrowbody reconfigurations to its backlog of nose-to-tail completion projects.
The first is of an airliner-outfitted Airbus A320 for an undisclosed Middle Eastern customer. AMAC will take the twinjet and transform it into a VIP-configured version.
In addition, the Basel firm has signed a separate deal covering work on a Boeing Business Jet for a Middle East-based client.
AMAC will convert the major compartment of the cabin into a VIP lounge with a separate club-seating area.
“These two recent contracts give us a comfortable orderbook until the beginning of 2016,” says Muhiddin.
The new work will add to the building momentum at AMAC. To accommodate the growth it has recently broken ground on a fourth hangar at its Basel airport site.
It will be of a similar size to its two existing widebody hangars and will provide AMAC with a total of 38,100m² of floor space.
AMAC anticipates that when the new hangar is finished in late 2015 it will be utilised for predominantly widebody maintenance work.
Currently in the hangar for VVIP completions are a Boeing 747-8I scheduled for delivery to a Middle Eastern customer in the first quarter of 2015 and an Airbus ACJ319 for an Asian client. Another green 777-200 VVIP completion project for a head-of-state client is scheduled to arrive later this month 2014.
Source: Flight Daily News
