Business aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul group StandardAero is to push into Europe for the first time and is close to concluding a partnership deal with an engine overhaul specialist.
Marc McGowan, vice-president of strategy and business development for the Dubai Aerospace Enterprise-owned company, said the tie-up will allow it to extend its brand into the region, and pick up airframe work for its US operations.
In other announcements at the show, StandardAero said it had been awarded its seventeenth outfitting contract for an Airbus Corporate Jet since becoming an authorized service and completion center for the airframer in 2003. Its sixteenth completed ACJ - an ACJ319 - has just been delivered to charter operator Privajet.
It has also expanded its network of mobile service teams throughout North America to 11, with a twelfth facility planned by the end of the year. Joe Brady, mobile service team director, said the additions would make it easier for StandardAero to "respond quicker to AOG [aircraft on the ground] situations".
The Tempe, Arizona-based company is celebrating its 100th anniversary. It was founded as Standard Machine Works in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1911.
Source: Flight Daily News
