Atlas Air Service Named Textron Special-mission Sales Rep

Germany-based aircraft sales, maintenance, management, and charter provider Atlas Air Service has been appointed by Textron Aviation as an authorized sales representative for special-mission aircraft.

One of Europe’s leading providers of business aviation services—in operation for more than half a century—Atlas brings decades of technical expertise in maintaining Beechcraft and Cessna aircraft, as well as a proven ability to perform special-mission conversions, which are done at its Bremen facility. It is now also approved to sell these customized special-mission aircraft, which serve a wide variety of roles including airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; maritime and border control; search and rescue; air ambulance; atmospheric research; aerial surveys; training; and governmental flights.

In addition to those conversions, the company is also authorized to install complex OEM kits such as extended nose, drop hatch, or extended range. Atlas and its subsidiaries hold factory maintenance authorizations from Embraer, Gulfstream, Cirrus, Honeywell, and Williams International, with Part 145 repair station approval from EASA, FAA, Transport Canada, India, Isle of Man, San Marino, and other jurisdictions.

"Together with Textron Aviation, we offer our customers individually configurable solutions at the highest technical level, and we are now authorized to oversee projects from conversion in our own hangars through to the sale and delivery of the aircraft," said Atlas COO Gregor Bremer. "We can also retrofit factory-offered modifications in Germany."