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for customers within the APAC region,
Textron Aviation has doubled the value
of its parts inventory — comprising
nearly 6,000 unique part numbers
— at its regional parts distribution
hub within the Singapore Service
Centre. Further streamlining parts
distribution and efficiency, customers
can now order parts online direct
from the Singapore warehouse.
Textron Aviation’s Singapore
Service Centre is part of an
international support footprint
of factory-direct service centres,
equipping customers with direct
access to a team of expert service
representatives delivering timely
maintenance, inspections, parts,
repairs, avionic upgrades, equipment
installations, refurbishments and
other specialized services.
With more than 1,000 Beechcraft
and Cessna turboprops operating
throughout the region, Textron
Aviation expects to receive several
authorizations for turboprop
maintenance in the coming months —
including FAA-registered Caravansand King Airs registered in Malaysia,
Indonesia and the Philippines.
A number of the company’s
aircraft were on static display -
Cessna Citation Longitude, making
its APAC debut, the Beechcraft
King Air 350i and Cessna Grand
Caravan EX turboprops, as well as
the Cessna Citation Latitude, Citation
CJ4 and Citation Sovereign+ jets.Satair
At a signing ceremony Satair and UTC
Aerospace Systems celebrated a recent
long-term distribution contract for
primary and secondary flight controls
for the Airbus A300, A300-
600 and A310.
The 10-year contract
covers worldwide
distribution of spares and line-
replaceable units.
UTC Aerospace Systems is one
of the world’s largest suppliers of
technologically advanced aerospace
and defence products, and through
its Actuation Systems business
manufactures flight controls for a
number of commercial and military
fixed wing and rotorcraft platforms
around the globe.
Satair and Cobham Aerospace
Communications renewed their
distribution agreement across the
Asia-Pacific region, including China
and also extending into the Middle
East. The agreement covers a range
of aircraft intercommunications
equipment including radio
management panels, audio control
panels, audio management units
and related spares. Satair will
provide a high level service
covering inventory from Singapore
as well as the management of
repair and exchange services.
All Nippon Airways has signed
a multi-year IMS contract with Satair
for a long-term, fully integrated
end-to-end supply chain package
covering expendable material for the
airline’s growing A320 family fleet,
comprising A320CEO and NEO and
A321CEO and NEO.
The service includes planning,
sourcing, purchasing, logistics and
inventory management covering some
15,000 part numbers with a possible
increase in the part number scope to
follow. The coverage includes
all expendables materials
A Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft of Royal Malaysian Air Force - By Phuong D. Nguyen needs of ANA. •Part of a Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft belong to the Singapore Air Force
on display - By Phuong D. Nguyen.