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Portuguese Air

Force Signs Deal with

Collins Aerospace

Lufthansa Technik Plans Engine Part

Repair and Overhaul Site

Lufthansa Technik has acquired prop- Technik. “We look forward to building
erty in Miskolc, Hungary as parts of Lufthansa Technik Miskolc together
its plan to establish a new site for the and adding the new colleagues to our
repair and overhaul of aircraft engine worldwide network.”
parts. Dubbed Lufthansa Technik In the long term, Lufthansa Technik The Portuguese Air Force has
Miskolc, the new fully-owned sub- Miskolc will employ around 400 selected Collins Aerospace for its
sidiary of Lufthansa Technik AG will employees. Investments in the tri- C-130H Hercules military transport
commence operations in 2022 and will ple-digit million-euro range will hence aircraft modernization effort. Serving
utilize around 20,000 square meters not only encompass state-of-the-art as a contractor to OGMA – Industria
of production space. Customers of machinery for procedures such as Aeronautica de Portugal, Collins will
Lufthansa Technik´s Engine Parts & cleaning, thermal spraying and heat provide its Flight2 aftermarket avion-
Accessories Repair (EPAR) network treatment of engine parts, but also an ics solution, which delivers the most
are expected to benefit from this extensive training and qualification pro- cost-effective and lowest-risk CNS/
extended production capacity. “As the gram. Construction at the new site is ATM upgrade solution. “The Portuguese
fourth-largest city in Hungary, Miskolc planned to begin in 2021. Training and Air Force uses C-130s for a broad
offers a great number of highly-qual- qualification courses for its employees range of missions, including personnel
ified technical experts and moreover will already begin in 2019 and will partly and cargo transport, and even firefight-
a good infrastructure”, added Philip take place at the existing sites of the ing,” said Dave Schreck, vice president,
Mende, Head of Engine Parts and EPAR network in Germany, Ireland, Military Avionics & Helicopters for
Mobile Engine Services at Lufthansa Malaysia, China and the USA. Collins Aerospace. “Modernizing to
the Flight2 system provides their Air
2020 for a period of 10 years. Lim Serh Force with the latest generation of
Ghee, President of ST Engineering’s avionics aimed at optimizing their oper-
Aerospace Sector, said, “We are ations while making the most of their
delighted that this existing customer, budget and minimizing aircraft down-
whom we have worked closely with for time.” Flight2 transforms a federated
many years, has decided to continue analogue system into a modern digital
entrusting us with maintaining their air- glass cockpit that provides common-
craft, and take that relationship further ality to commercial aircraft. Included
by placing an additional aircraft type in the avionics upgrade is a full glass
ST Engineering under our care. Long-term partnerships cockpit with new primary flight displays,
Required Navigation Performance/Area
such as this allow us to build a deep
Bags New Airframe understanding of our customers’ needs Navigation flight management system
with high altitude release point, and
to better support them as their fleet size
computed air release point preci-
MRO Contract grows.” ST Engineering will be provid- sion airdrop software. As part of the
ing airframe maintenance services to
upgrade, Collins will leverage its Flight2
Singapore Technologies Engineering the customer at its US facilities located Mobility Mission Application (MMA)
in San Antonio, Texas and Pensacola,
Ltd (ST Engineering) announced Florida. The San Antonio facility is a architecture, which allows customers
that its Aerospace sector has signed well-established airframe MRO service to select from a super set of off-the-
an agreement with a contract value provider which just received the pres- shelf capabilities. Customers using the
of about US$600m (approximately tigious Federal Aviation Administration MMA architecture can tailor the system
S$813m) to provide aircraft heavy Aviation Maintenance Technician to meet specific mission requirements,
maintenance services to a major North Diamond Award of Excellence in 2018, comply with regional communications
American operator. ST Engineering will while the Pensacola facility comprises navigation surveillance/air traffic
support the operator, an existing cus- a new hangar with state-of-the-art management mandates, or simply
tomer, on a fleet of over 160 widebody infrastructure that began operations to maximize capabilities for a given
and narrow-body aircraft starting in in June 2018. budget.

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