Sun, Apr 25, 2010
Marks Completion Of A $14 Million Project
Hawker Beechcraft Services (HBS) celebrated the grand opening of
its expanded and enhanced aircraft maintenance facility at
Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (IWA) in Mesa, AZ on Thursday. HBS
recently completed the final phase of a $14 million project that
added a second 26,000 square foot hangar and expanded customer
accommodations and administrative offices to the Mesa site, which
was selected to serve as the company's regional service center in
the Southwest. The operation is expected to generate up to 110 new
jobs over five years.
"Mesa is an ideal maintenance
destination for several reasons," said Christi Tannahill, vice
president, Hawker Beechcraft Global Customer Support, "including
its customer-friendly atmosphere and average of 325 days of
sunshine per year. We're pleased to be open for business and look
forward to welcoming customers from throughout the region and
across the U.S. to this state-of-the-art facility."
The recently opened addition includes a
newly constructed 26,000 square foot hangar and 22,000 square feet
of back shops, a spacious customer lobby and administrative
offices. The new space supplements existing facilities opened by
HBS in January of 2009 to provide owners and operators in the
Southwest with a full-service Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO)
location offering airframe, avionics, engine and Aircraft on Ground
(AOG) support for the company's entire aircraft line. It is staffed
with a factory-trained and highly-experienced team of maintenance
technicians.
The enhanced customer space offers
guest offices for customers to use while their aircraft are being
serviced, with each workspace equipped with full office amenities
such as computers, Wi-Fi access, printers and phones.
Over the last two years, HBS has made a
number of customer interface, service efficiency and infrastructure
improvements, including the opening of new paint facilities at its
Chester, United Kingdom, service center and most recently at its
new, state-of-the-art service center in Indianapolis.
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