AVALON – ExecuJet MRO Services, has been steadily growing its workforce in Australia thanks partly to more business coming from operators of Dassault Falcon aircraft.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Dassault Aviation acquired ExecuJet MRO Services Australia in 2019, Falcon aircraft accounted for a very small percentage of our maintenance business, but today it accounts for 15%,\u201d says Grant Ingall, Regional VP Australasia at ExecuJet MRO Services.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur workforce in Australia today is over 100 personnel including contract labour, while in 2019 we averaged 80. So we\u2019ve grown 25% in the last four years\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n
ExecuJet MRO Services Australia has heavy maintenance bases in Sydney, Perth and Melbourne as well as line stations in other cities, such as Brisbane in Australia and Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington in New Zealand to support Falcons on-demand.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have invested in tooling and training for maintenance of Falcon aircraft,\u201d says Ingall. \u201cWe have completed Dassault specialized horizontal stabilizer bushing measurement training and structural mapping training. Later this year we will be upgrading our non-destructive testing (NDT) capabilities. We will, for example, be able to perform the ultrasonic inspection of the horizontal stabiliser, a task we previously had to bring in specialists from Dassault to perform,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n
ExecuJet MRO Services, since the Dassault purchase in 2019, has – either trained or hired \u2013 altogether 15 engineers and technicians rated on Falcon types. \u201cExecuJet technicians and engineers are continuing to be sent from Australia to Dassault Aviation for advanced technical training including the new aircraft types such as the Falcon 6X,\u201d adds Ingall. The 6X is due to be certified and have entry-into-service middle of this year.<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), since February 2020, has approved ExecuJet MRO Services Australia as a factory-owned Dassault Aviation MRO organisation, to do line and heavy maintenance on all in-production types: Falcon 7X\/8X, Falcon 900LX and Falcon 2000LXS. ExecuJet is also approved by CASA to service some of the out-of-production models, namely the: Falcon 50\/50EX, Falcon 900\/C\/DX\/EX\/EX EASy and Falcon 2000\/EX\/LX.<\/p>\n
ExecuJet last year completed heavy maintenance C-checks on two Falcon 900EX aircraft. One is an Australian registered aircraft used by a mining company and the other is a VIP aircraft operated by Papua New Guinea\u2019s national carrier Air Niugini. The VIP aircraft is under FalconCare, a comprehensive Dassault Aviation maintenance cost program designed to help customers manage their maintenance budgets.\u00a0 Only factory-owned or Dassault authorised MRO service centres are permitted to work on aircraft under the FalconCare program.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AVALON – ExecuJet MRO Services, has been steadily growing its workforce in Australia thanks partly to more business coming from operators of Dassault Falcon aircraft. \u201cWhen Dassault Aviation acquired ExecuJet MRO Services Australia in 2019, Falcon aircraft accounted for a very small percentage of our maintenance business, but today it accounts for 15%,\u201d says Grant…
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