Gulfstream Goes Down the Middle in St. Louis

Gulfstream has designated its Cahokia, Illinois MRO facility as a mid-cabin maintenance center of excellence, with a hangar, operations center, and technician team dedicated to its midsize business jets.

While Dallas will remain the airframer’s facility for mid-cabin completions, the location at St. Louis Downtown Airport will offer centralized support for the company’s fleet of 560 midsize aircraft including the G280, G200, G150, and G100, about 70 percent of which are based in the U.S. The 70,348-sq-ft hangar includes 30,000 sq ft of aircraft floor space and 20,000 sq ft of back shop space. It will be base for a service team manager and technicians responsible for airframe inspections and repair, avionics installations and upgrades, and interiors.

Refurbishment capabilities at the location include full cabinet fabrication and finish, upholstery, composites, and paint.

“The designation is our way of reinforcing our ongoing commitment to mid-cabin customers,” said Derek Zimmerman, president of the OEM’s customer support division, adding the location will become a one-stop MRO shop for the company’s mid-cabin. “The centrally located site has the personnel, skills, experience, tooling, manuals, and capability to produce the quality and efficient work expected by our customers.”