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With plans afoot to start opera­tions by September 2008 with one existing hangar, Air Works India, on Tuesday announced its plans to launch a commercial maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility in Ho-sur.near Bangalore.

According to company execu­tives, with five state of the art and fully equipped hangars, Air Works MRO will offer services like air-frame, engine and APU mainte­nance; aircraft paint shop, engine repair and overhaul, passenger to freighter conversion, interior com­pletions, avionic upgrades, aircraft component repairs and spares.

The MRO facility is expected to support a wide variety of commer­cial aircraft certified to DGCA, FAA, and EASA standards. The company will complete two additional hang­ers byyear end designed to accom­modate wide body aircraft, and another two more by end of 2009. Going forward, Air Works India plans to invest an upward of $ 50 million for setting up the infrastruc­ture to support the commercial MRO initiative.

Also, the appointment of Fredrik Groth as the CEO was announced at the Faranborough air show. "Fredrik brings a deep understand­ing of airline customers and their market realities. It's time Air Works drew on his range of talents to head

• The M R0 facility is expected to support a wide variety of commercial aircraft certified to DGCA, FAA, and EASA standards
  
• The company will complete two additional hangers by year-end designed to accommodate wide body aircraft, and another two more by end of 2009
  
• Air Works India plans to invest an upward of $50 m to set up the infrastructure to support the commercial MRO initiative

our business in India." Suresh Soni, partner, Global Technology Invest­ment said. Echoing the sentiment, Ravi Menon, executive vice presi­dent and founding director of Air Works said, "This is a complex and challenging business and we are pleased to have Fredrik at the helm. We are experiencing exponential growth in this area and Fredrik's ex­perience in both commercial and MRO programmes shall provide Air Works the leadership and experi­ence to be successful."

The article has appeared in Chennai, Bangalore and Mumbai edition of The Financial Express.