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AMAC Delivers Completed VVIP Boeing 747-8i
By: Chad Trautvetter
Caption: The jumbo jet’s cabin includes custom furniture, monuments, exotic materials and artwork.
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Basel, Switzerland-based AMAC Aerospace delivered its first VVIP-configured Boeing 747-8i this week. The completions project took two years and hundreds of thousands of man-hours to bring to fruition.

The jumbo jet’s cabin includes custom furniture, monuments, exotic materials and artwork. In addition, the VVIP jet has peripheral exterior cameras, Live TV, satcom, water tanks, showers, beds and galleys. “We are all proud to see this project come to an end; we hope that the principal will recognize the level of detail coming from our skilled craftsmen and women," said AMAC project management head Christian Schirlin.

“We have really come a long way with this B747-8i. Our departments have relentlessly combed through thousands of documents from production, to analysis, to installation, to certification through to the acceptance tests and shakedown flights,” said AMAC COO Bernd Schramm. “New learning curves have enabled AMAC to refine and better our products and procedures and have given valuable insights in to what is feasible.”