Aviation Week Show News - November 12, 2007 - (Page 18)

COMPLETIONS D U B A I 2 0 07 table features “a beautiful marketry top.” The A320 boasts the widest cabin of any singleaisle aircraft, giving the Gore Design team 1,033 square feet of space to utilize for comfort, luxury and practicality, the company says. 300-employee Gore has assigned 75 designers, engineers and craftsmen to the ACJ project. Gore Design claims clients including “the People’s Republic of China and world leaders in Central Asia and the Middle East.” Jet Aviation–Midcoast Jet Aviation is a longtime leader in large aircraft completions, with a well-known completions center in Basel, Switzerland. “Jet has several hangar extensions, some planned, some realized. A few months from now Jet will start building a widebody hangar at Basel that should be fully operational in 2008. It will hold an A380 or A340 plus some smaller aircraft. At Jet’s latest acquisition of Midcoast Aviation in the U.S., there is a BBJ/ACJsize hangar being built, which is the biggest building there,” Jörg Rockenhäuser, a partner in Jet parent Permira, told Show News. “We want to do an A380, but with healthy margins, and if it endangers other projects, it’s not necessarily a good thing to be the first,” Rockenhäuser said. Size aside, Permira Jet has expanded in the U.S. via its purchase of Midcoast Aviation. Midcoast claims a hangar large enough to house ten superlong-range or 16 midsize aircraft at one time, at St. Louis Downtown Airport in Missouri. The preengineered metal structure, the largest built by Midcoast to date, features two 270-foot by 135-foot aircraft bays separated by 40,000 square feet of supporting shop space on two floors, and incorporates a 5,000-pound freight elevator. “Our cabinetry and upholstery shops were relocated to the new building, bringing them closer to the aircraft they are supporting. Concentrating completions activities in the new building has alcontinued on page 57 This idea for a seating-area dining alcove is suggested by Boeing continued from page 55 “We feel very privileged to become an Airbus-Approved Outfitter,” said Fokker Services president Hans Berends van Loenen. “Completions is one of the strategic growth areas of our company.” “Strong demand for Airbus Corporate Jetliner Family aircraft means that there is a shortage of cabin outfitting capacity,” said Airbus customers COO John Leahy. “In approving Fokker Services, following a which is also is promoting a library concept by Teague for the 787. thorough audit of its capabilities, we will be able to offer further choice in this proximately six months. specialized field.” “The finest leathers, fabrics and wood veneers Fokker Services says it views the Middle East as will be used to give the interior a luxurious feelthe area to generate the largest demand for its VIP ing throughout,” Gore said. Plans for the lavatory completion services on large-cabin single-aisle include a shower and marble countertops. Special business jets. Market analysis done during 2006 provisions are made on board for the china, crysstrongly suggests that a combination of increasing tal and flatware used by the client. The conference oil revenues, changing travel patterns for many affluent Middle Eastern passengers, and upscaling from smaller business jets has resulted in a substantially higher demand for large-cabin singleaisle VIP aircraft. “Significant demand for such aircraft is also emanating from the Russian market,” Leahy said. Fokker Services is a unit of Netherlands-based Stork Aerospace (Stand W538). Gore Design Completions “To have the opportunity to customize an Airbus is truly an honor,” Gore Design Completions CEO Jerry Gore said as the firm publicized its first green ACJ job earlier this year. “This is really a dream project for our team.” The aircraft will reside in GDC’s 120,000-sq-ft San Antonio hangar for ap18 Gore accepts its first ‘green’ Airbus A320 Prestige for completion and painting. November 12, 2007 www.aviationweek.com/shownews http://www.aviationweek.com/shownews

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