ExecuJet Opens New MRO Facility at Subang Airport Near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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(02/04/24)
 Dassault Aviation has opened a upkeep,
restore and overhaul (MRO) facility at Subang Airport close to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Working underneath the ExecuJet model, the
state-of-the-art manufacturing facility service heart will have the ability to assist
10-15 Dassault Aviation, Bombardier and Gulfstream plane at one time, together with Dassault’s largest plane,
the Falcon 6X, which just lately entered service, and the bigger 10X,
which is anticipated to enter the market in 2027.

The 149,500 sqft purpose-built facility gives
clients the total suite of MRO companies from line upkeep and
AOG assist by way of to heavy upkeep checks, cabin inside
refurbishments, satcom
installations, avionics upgrades and different superior modifications.

The ability, which was customized to assist enterprise
plane and consists of superior options similar to a built-in
overhead crane for plane engine modifications, replaces a smaller
facility initially constructed for plane undercover parking.

The brand new hangar’s energy-saving design
components embrace massive home windows, permitting for extra pure gentle;
LED lighting; high-volume low-speed overhead followers for cooling; an
85kW rooftop photo voltaic system and water tanks for harvesting
rainwater.

“The advantage of having a purpose-built MRO facility is it could actually
embrace new options to assist MRO exercise (for instance, a
built-in overhead-crane for plane engine modifications) and it may be
future-proofed,” mentioned Ivan Lim, Regional VP Asia at ExecuJet MRO
Providers. “We additionally designed the hangar and workshops to optimize
the workflow by way of the power. The 105,000-ft2 hangar can
accommodate as much as 15 medium and huge enterprise jets
concurrently, together with the ultra-large-cabin Dassault Falcon 6X
and Falcon 10X. Our earlier facility at Subang Airport was
smaller and the hangar was initially designed for plane
undercover parking.”

Along with Kuala Lumpur, Dassault is:

– constructing a brand new U.S. flagship MRO location in
Melbourne, Florida to assist Falcons working in North and South
America. This heart will open in 2025;

– including capability within the Northeast U.S. with
one other approved service heart, Professional Star Aviation, situated close to
Boston;

– relocating a facility in Sorocaba, close to São
Paulo, Brazil to the newly opened Catarina Worldwide Govt
airport; and

– supporting the Indian market with a brand new
approved service heart in New Delhi, Indamer.

Final 12 months, the corporate opened a significant new ExecuJet
MRO heart at Dubai World Central airport. This 165,250 sqft
(15,350 sqm) facility will vastly enhance service to clients in
the Center East.

Dassault can also be increasing the variety of MRO
places that may carry out C checks and different main inspections
and deal with expertise retrofits such because the EASy IV flight deck,
the FalconEye Mixed Imaginative and prescient System, and the FalconConnect
high-speed Web connectivity bundle.

“Over the past half decade, we’ve greater than
doubled our international assist capability and significantly modernized
our MRO functionality,” mentioned Jean Kayanakis, Dassault Aviation’s SVP for worldwide
customer support. “We now have greater than 60 service places and
15 components distribution facilities all over the world, together with the GoTeams essential to assist plane within the discipline 24/7 wherever
they might be. That is a part of a technique geared toward holding us as
shut as potential to our clients and providing all of the companies
wanted to maximise the up-time and worth of their Falcon fleets.”

In a separate growth, EASA and the US FAA
have licensed ExecuJet MRO Providers Malaysia to carry out line
upkeep and supply AOG assist for Falcon 6X plane
all through the area.

The ExecuJet MRO community is an entirely owned
subsidiary of Dassault Aviation.

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