Africa’s aviation future lies in local expertise – Aero

By Dickson Omobola

Nigeria’s oldest aviation company, Aero Contractors, has said Africa possesses the expertise and infrastructure to prolong its aviation manufacture locally, portion redeeming costs, creating jobs and retaining worth connected the continent.

The firm, which showcased its upgraded and expanding Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul, MRO, capabilities astatine the precocious held Aviation Africa Summit and Exhibition successful Kigali, Rwanda, described the installation arsenic 1 of the astir precocious successful West and Central Africa.

Speaking astatine the summit, which drew manufacture leaders, airlines, regulators and Original Equipment Manufacturers, OEMs, Head of the Approved Maintenance Organisation, AMO, Division astatine Aero Contractors, Engr James Ominyi, said: “Our improved capabilities and ongoing upgrades are attracting important attraction from airlines looking to trim costs and turnaround times by carrying retired their dense attraction checks wrong Africa.”

Also speaking, Chief Financial Officer of Aero Contractors, Charles Grant, said: “With implicit six decades of aviation heritage, Aero is gathering connected its bequest to service the adjacent procreation of African operators. Our upgraded MRO is simply a wide awesome that Africa has the expertise and infrastructure to prolong its aviation manufacture locally, portion redeeming costs, creating jobs and retaining worth connected the continent.”

Meanwhile, Aero’s Lagos-based MRO is 1 of the astir precocious facilities successful West and Central Africa and with capabilities covering enactment and basal attraction for Boeing 737 Classic and NGs, arsenic good arsenic determination jets and turboprops.

The facility, certified by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, provides chopper attraction for some scheduled and unscheduled checks, including the AW139 and different rotary platforms arsenic good arsenic robust workshops, including wheels and brakes, batteries, upholstery, structural repairs, and avionics, presently being upgraded successful enactment with planetary standards and mentation for EASA certification.

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