Florida's Melbourne International Airport Welcomes Aviation Maintenance Company MidairUSA

Melbourne International Airport (KMLB) on Florida’s Space Coast, has added MidairUSA’s Maintenance and Engineering complex to its aviation cluster of companies. MidairUSA, which brings a significant maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) presence to the airport’s aviation and aerospace base, plans to build hangar facilities designed to retrofit Boeing 747 airplanes.

“MidairUSA is committed to creating a significant local workforce that will strengthen the airport’s growing aviation cluster,” said airport Executive Director Richard A. Ennis. “The opening of the MidairUSA complex represents another important step in the evolution of the Space Coast since the retirement of NASA’s shuttle program.”

Ennis says the region continues to attract major aviation and aerospace tenants seeking to take advantage of hiring a highly trained workforce with expertise in every facet of aerospace and aviation manufacturing, including rocket science. The airport has benefited from that skilled workforce with the addition of Brazilian companies Embraer, Archo Solutions Engineering USA, and AAR Airlift Group. These three alone have committed to add nearly 1,000 high-paying jobs to the region. Now aviation maintenance company MidairUSA, whose parent company Midair S.A. operates worldwide, has been added to the mix. 

On the horizon is the promise of another 900 jobs at the airport with Northrop Grumman’s planned Manned Aircraft Center of Excellence. Northrop Grumman announced in March plans to nearly double its local workforce by choosing Melbourne for one of five planned centers of excellence.

“We offer the ideal location to retain and attract a highly skilled workforce and a genuine business-first attitude that includes assistance with permitting processes,” Ennis said. “We have major airfield infrastructure in place for rapid development.”

(Pictured: William "Billy" Moore, president MidairUSA, and Richard A. Ennis, executive director Melbourne International Airport, sit in the cockpit of a Transaero Airlines Boeing 747-400 currently undergoing modifications at the airport.)

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