Turkish Airlines opens MRO facility
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Turkish Airlines recently launched its new maintenance and repair center, an MRO facility, representing an investment of around US$ 550 million. This was being undertaken by Turkish Technic Inc Named HABOM at Sabiha Gökçen International Airport. The new facility aims to increase technical maintenance and repair capacity and capability available to both Turkish Airlines and third party customers.
HABOM facilities, when fully operational, will have 7,000 personnel and is expected to produce annual revenue of US$ 1.5 billion.
The opening ceremony was attended by the Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, finance minister of Turkey, Mehmet Şimşek, transport – maritime affairs and communications minister of Turkey, Lütfi Elvan, Turkish defense industry undersecretary, İsmail Demir, Turkish Airlines’ Board chairman, Hamdi Topçu, Turkish Airlines’ CEO, Temel Kotil and Turkish Technic Inc’ CEO, Ahmet Karaman.
The facility has the capacity to provide simultaneous maintenance, repair and overhaul services for 11 narrow body aircraft and three wide body aircraft. In the annex, many shops will provide maintenance, repair and overhaul services for aircraft components, including APUs and landing gear. With the HABOM facilities, Turkish Technic’s narrow body aircraft maintenance capacity will increase by 57%, wide body aircraft maintenance capacity by 43%, and closed area capacity by 193%.
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