Hong Kong / SAR, March 27, 2012 – Jet Aviation Hong Kong recently expanded its service offerings to include interior services.
Located in Tsuen Wan in the Kowloon area of Hong Kong, the new 483.10 sq. m. (5,200 sq. ft.) interior shop is fully outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment throughout four equally divided work bays, adding comprehensive interior refurbishment capabilities to the company’s maintenance facility.
Each work bay provides broad support for upholstery, carpeting, faux finishing and eco-friendly spray-painting. The shop has also been outfitted with a clean room, a buffing area with the brightest lights available and a cyclone dust collection system, along with a rotary screw air compressor. This kind of production environment, coupled with the company’s highly skilled team of interior specialists, is designed to support the highest quality and service standards.
“There is great need for interior services in Asia,” said Nigel Parker, managing director at Jet Aviation Hong Kong. “As appreciation for the value of business jets as a powerful business tool grows, customers’ desire for aircraft interiors that meet their unique needs grows too. We provide a wide range of additional interior support offerings to our customers, including WiFi capability, certified iTouch and iPad connectivity, partial to full interior cabin sound-proofing, 3D and LED monitors, as well as wireless Bluetooth headsets and handsets.”
Jet Aviation Hong Kong is the company’s closest base to mainland China where maintenance, refurbishment and overhaul services can be performed. It also operates an aircraft management and charter operation in Hong Kong. The company currently has 18 aircraft in its Asian management fleet.
Jet Aviation Hong Kong offers line maintenance, inspections and defect rectifications, as well as AOG support, and has access to a 9,200 square meter (99,027 square feet) hangar. The company holds Hong Kong CAD maintenance repair station approval and an FAA repair station certificate #6JAY388B, and mainland China JMM approval for PRC-registered aircraft. In addition, it services aircraft registered in 11 other countries through Jet Aviation's maintenance approvals in Singapore, which include EASA #145.0461, Aruba DCA, Australian CASA, Bermuda DCA, Cayman CAA, Indonesia DGAC, Macao MAR-145, Malaysia DCA, Philippines ATO, Singapore CAAS and Thailand DOA.
Jet Aviation, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), was founded in Switzerland in 1967 and is one of the leading business aviation services companies in the world. Close to 5,000 employees cater to client needs from 25 airport facilities throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North and South America. The company provides maintenance, completions and refurbishment, engineering, fixed base operations, along with aircraft management, charter services, aircraft sales and personnel services. Jet Aviation's European and U.S. aircraft management and charter divisions jointly operate a fleet of more than 200 aircraft. Please visit www.jetaviation.com and follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/jetaviation
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