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FEATURE SELETAR

Growing Pains

Many of MRO companies that moved to Seletar do airframe heavy maintenance,
so they need land with runway access
By Our Special Correspondent

the GeneRaL Consensus in the the sea on two sides and surrounded by roads
aviation industry is that Seletar Aerospace and an expressway on the other two sides.
Park has been hugely successful. Many of maintenance, repair and overhaul
Big name players in the aviation industry, (MRO) companies that moved to Seletar do
such as Airbus Helicopters, Bombardier airframe heavy maintenance, so they need
Business Aircraft, Fokker Services, Hawker land with runway access. But the land at
Pacific, Jet Aviation, Pratt & Whitney and Seletar with runway access is in short supply.
Rolls-Royce have facilities there. Jurong This is a concern because some of the
Town Corporation (JTC), which manages the MRO companies at Seletar want to expand.
park, says there are more than 60 companies JTC in December released land under
at Seletar employing nearly 5,000 people. phase-three of the aerospace park’s
But there is no getting away from the expansion plan and this includes some land
fact that Singapore is land-constrained. This with runway access. “First two phases are
is particularly the case at Seletar, a relatively already developed or the land is reserved.
small airport on the north of the island that is But there is still phase-three that accounts
difficult to expand because it is locked in by for 40 percent of the total land at Seletar

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