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Gulfstream Adds Hangar in Europe, Opens Sales Office in Vienna

: Feb 7, 2019 - : 10:38 pm

Gulfstream Aerospace has enhanced its customer support resources in Europe and Asia, including the addition of hangar space for maintenance at Europe’s busiest business-aviation airport, Paris-Le Bourget.

At Le Bourget, the company has established access to and usage of an on-site hangar (H2). This supplements the Field and Airborne Support Teams (FAST) unit Gulfstream made available to operators at Le Bourget in 2017.

“Our ability to work in a hangar at Le Bourget will protect a customer’s aircraft from the elements and create an efficient working environment with room for tooling and equipment,” said Derek Zimmerman, president, Gulfstream Customer Support. “This added resource will help reduce downtime and facilitate a quicker return to service for Gulfstream aircraft in Paris.”

Gulfstream’s presence at Le Bourget includes up to three FAST technicians, who have the use of 16,500 square feet/1,533 square meters of hangar space. The European Aviation Safety Agency-trained technicians, who specialize in assisting operators in aircraft-on-ground situations, work under and are managed by Gulfstream’s company-owned service center at
London Luton Airport.

According to PrivateFly, Le Bourget was Europe’s busiest airport for business aviation in 2018, with approximately 54,000 aircraft movements.

New Sales Office: The company has also opened a new sales office in Vienna and made new sales team appointments in Europe.  The Vienna Sales office is located in the exclusive Goldenes Quartier in the heart of Vienna’s historic first district. Based there are Matt Sandidge, regional vice president of Sales for Central and Eastern Europe, Greece, Turkey and Israel, and the recently appointed regional vice president of Sales for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Michael Rusetski. Sandidge and Rusetski report to Trevor Esling, regional senior vice president of Sales for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Indian subcontinent, who is based in Gulfstream’s London Sales and Design Center.

Rusetski brings to Gulfstream 12 years of business-aviation experience in aircraft management and charter, aircraft sales, direct marketing and leasing. Before joining the company, he was in  charge of new aircraft sales for Cessna in CIS and ran an aircraft brokerage company with offices in Vienna; Long Beach, California; Johannesburg; and Moscow.

Gulfstream also recently appointed Gavin Thompson as regional sales manager for Europe, Russia and CIS. Thompson, who is based in London, joined Gulfstream from GainJet Aviation, where he had been worldwide sales and service manager since 2010.

 

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