France's TAT Group is kicking off efforts to establish a major independent European maintenance presence with the re-launch at Le Bourget of TAT Industries. TAT Industries is made up of several repair and overhaul shops, with activities mainly in France but also in the Caribbean and Singapore, and employs over 1,100 people. Area sales manager Antoine Brilhault says the company performs airframe and component maintenance on the DC-10, MD-11, MD-83, entire Boeing 737 family, Fokker 100 and F28 and ATR family turboprops. It is looking at adding Airbus A320 maintenance to its list of capabilities.
The TAT Group is owned by the Marchais family, who founded it in 1969. Its most recent acquisition was AOM Industries, the aircraft overhaul arm of AOM French Airlines, in September 2000 from the SAir Group (now Swissair).The company's latest contract is with EADS Airbus, which has chosen TAT to paint Finnair¹s A320 fleet. The work starts in August at the rate of at least one A320 per month. The French ministry of defence has also selected TAT for stripping and painting Transall transport aircraft.
Source: Flight Daily News
