India's First Commercial MRO and Completion Centre

• Launch of Commercial MRO Service Capability at Hosur airport which is 10nm from Bangalore city

Full scope Engineers and Mechanics

Significant Customer Interest

• Setting up commercial MRO operations at Hosur Airport with 5 state of the art and fully equipped Hangars

• Background in Commercial MRO:-

Setting up maintenance base for Jet Airways to maintain their 737 classics for all their minor and major maintenance

Setting up 500 hours inspection checks. Deploying and training personals to maintain and comply as per regulatory requirements

Withdrawal of maintenance program for Jet Airways aircraft due to government regulations mandating scheduled operators to invest in their own engineering

CMRO Organisation approval is being processed with DGCA

• After the DGCA approval, AW has plans to obtain  GCAA,FAA and EASA approvals

In future, wide variety of commercial aircraft certified to DGCA, FAA, and EASA standards supported

• Business plans are for catering to airframe heavy maintenance of narrow and wide body airplanes including ATR.

•Building service capabilities for:- Avionics, Instruments, Electrical, Non Destructive Testing (NDT), Batteries, Wheels & Brakes and Hydraulics

• Air Works is in negotiations with International Third Party MRO providers for technical collaboration

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Comprehensive MRO capability being added to Hosur Airport

AVIONICS

COMPOSITE REPAIR

AIRFRAME REPAIRS

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Specific Airframe Heavy Maintenance Services are progressively being built up for

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Engine Care Solutions to be Provided Under Engine MRO in future

Current capability includes engine QEC dressing undressing and boroscopic inspection.

Full engine overhaul capability and module replacements in future to provide "total engine care" solutions to clients

Future capability to repair engine parts such as rotors, stators, combustors and engine casings which otherwise have to be replaced with expensive new parts providing substantial cost savings to airlines

Proposed AW Engine MRO services would initially cater to - IAE V2500 series, CFM 56 series, PW 120 &127 turbo prop engines removal and fitment and QEC build up

Capabilities	Equipment
Engine test bed and test cell for monitoring	High speed grinding and balancing equipments
Boroscopic inspection facilities	Ultrasonic and fluoride ion cleaning equipments
End of lease inspections	Grit basting machines for coating removals
Performance restoration capability	High temperature vacuum brazing
Engine refurbishment and full overhaul	EDM facility
Engine condition monitoring facility	Laser drilling facility
Engine lease or pooling facility	Plasma coating
AOG services	Thermal barrier coating
On site maintenance
Component and accessory repairs

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Requisite Machinery to Fulfill Future Demands Will be Installed

All machinery required for sheet metal work expected to be installed

Use of existing facility of TAAL for machine shop, plating and heat treatment

Machinery will include sheet cutting, bending and rolling machines

Hangar would have bridge cranes to facilitate removal of doors, control surfaces, vertical and horizontal stabilizers

Facility would also have boom lifts and scissor lifts to reach any point for maintenance

All types of NDT testing facility, degreasing plants and ultrasonic cleaning facility would be installed

Autoclaves

Auto clave to facilitate repairs of C ducts

Furnaces

Currently TAAL is having a facility for heat treatment capable of treating aluminum alloys to support sheet metal and structural fabrication

Automated Test Equipments

All field testers and equipments to support heavy maintenance as per manufacture's requirement would be made available for each type of aircraft under the MRO approval

Calibration facilities

Limited calibration facilities for pressure gauges and torque wrenches would be set up by early 2009

Corrosion Treatment

All requirements of anti corrosion treatment as per manufactures CPCP programmes would be available