When business is "not all that good," sometimes the smartest thing one can do is to fight the urge to curtail your activities with the rest of your competition and get ahead before they do likewise. A Manitoba airline continues to develop and expand its service offerings, with the launch of an airframe structural repair center to provide service to the local, regional and national aviation industry.

Under the guidance of Satbachan Soor, a certified S Licenced AME, the repair center has been opened in the Skyward hangar property. Soor, who previously operated Saskatoon Aircraft Rebuilders has relocated to Winnipeg to undertake this new offering by Skyward. “We will specialize in the smaller commuter aircraft and insurance claims” states Soor, “Other local airframe repair service providers tend to focus on larger projects.”

While the center will be maintained under the existing Skyward structure and not as a separate entity, to identify the various aspects of the Skyward operation, a working name of SkyStructures is being used internally to identify the new operation. Gordon Peters, Skyward Director offers, “ The development of this center will further extend the services that Skyward can offer, not only for our own fleet but to external aircraft operators as well.” Peters further went on to state, “We now have the complete range  of aviation maintenance offered through our Winnipeg operation, that being, mechanical, structural and avionics engineers.”

Skyward is a Manitoba company operating since 1987, providing scheduled and specialty Medevac services throughout Manitoba and a full service charter operation for destinations throughout Canada and the USA. Skyward is headquartered in Thompson, Manitoba.

FMI: www.skyward.mb.ca