AgustaWestland,
a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce the opening of a new Repair and
Overhaul facility for its subsidiary Agusta Aerospace Services, thus further
expanding its Customer Support activities in Europe..
The R&O facility has a surface of 2,016 m² and is located in Zaventem close
to Brussels airport. The facility includes NDI test capability, test benches
for each transmission approved, a painting room, inspection room and offices.
R&O is conducted for all of Agusta Aerospace Services’ customers, as
required, including management of vendor items.
Agusta Aerospace Service undertakes R&O covering the range of
AgustaWestland’s light twin models including A109 legacy, AW109 Power and
GrandNew, the B204/205/206 and AB212/412 helicopter types, with EASA-Part 145
approval from the Belgian CAA (BCAA under BE.145.22). The facility achieved FAA
approval in 2007
Daniele Romiti, AgustaWestland CEO, said: “This facility is called to support
our existing and expanding product range playing a key role in the important
European market and in other regions. Agusta Aerospace Services is and will be
a major part of the effort of providing our customers with the best and most
comprehensive range of support services available. We’ve increasingly become a
total capability provider and we are committed to further strengthening this
strategy to allow our growing customer base to maximize mission effectiveness
and improve efficiencies.”
The new facility will now become a Centre of Excellence for AW109 transmissions
and will help serve the customers in Europe and abroad while getting ready to
support the latest additions into the AgustaWestland product range in the
future, namely the AW189 and AW169 models. Belgian Army, Dubai Air Wing and Air
Transport Europe are examples of many customers who have been benefitting of
Agusta Aerospace Services’ activities so far.
(Source:
AgustaWestland; issued Sept. 23, 2013)
