StandardAero recently hit a milestone in its engine services, receiving the 1,500th Honeywell HTF7000 series engine for major maintenance at its Augusta, Georgia service center. The MRO provider became an authorized maintenance channel partner for the engine in 2008 and obtained heavy maintenance authorization for its Augusta center in 2016.
With the event, StandardAero noted that it now has performed more major HTF7000 workscope events than any other company. Formerly known as the AS907, the HTF7000 powers a range of super-midsize jets, including the Bombardier Challenger 300/350/3500, Cessna Citation Longitude, Gulfstream G280, and Embraer Legacy 450/500 and Praetor 500/600. The engine fleet collectively surpassed 10 million flight hours last year.
StandardAero is expanding its MRO capacity at Augusta Regional Airport to keep up with increasing demand for HTF7000 engine support, the company said. “The grand opening of our expanded engine shop and new aircraft service hangar coming this fall, our growth in capacity enables us to support more HTF7000 operator engines than ever before,” said Chris Bodine, v-p and general manager of StandardAero’s Augusta facility.
In addition to heavy maintenance at Augusta, StandardAero provides minor-level authorized HTF7000 service at its (Fleetlands) Gosport, UK site and line maintenance for the engine at its centers in Houston; Springfield, Illinois; West Palm Beach, Florida; and Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It also provides mobile repair team support.