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Bombardier's Singapore Expansion Nears Completion
By: Jerry Siebenmark
Caption: The Canadian airframer said it expects to complete a project in the second half of this year that quadruples the Singapore service center's size.
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Bombardier Aviation is progressing on an expansion that will quadruple the size of its Singapore service center, expected to be completed in the second half of this year. The expansion at Seletar Aerospace Park will give the Canadian airframer a 430,000-sq-ft (40,000-sq-m) center that Bombardier claims will be the largest OEM-owned business aviation service facility in the Asia-Pacific region.

Included in the expansion will be new customer facilities for business jet operators, a 37,000-sq-ft full-service paint facility, advanced interior finishing capabilities, and expanded component repair and overhaul services. Heavy structural and composite repair capabilities, a nearly 10,000-sq-ft integrated parts depot, and the addition of more than $15 million in parts inventory will round out the service center’s expansion.

Singapore is one of several service center expansion projects the Montreal-based company has undertaken or completed recently, including at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport in Florida, and more recently at London Biggin Hill, where Bombardier announced plans this week to construct a nearly 250,000-sq-ft service center to replace existing hangars there.

In related news, Bombardier’s Tianjin service center in China was awarded European Union Aviation Safety Agency Part 145 approval for line and base maintenance on Challengers and Globals, as well as component approval for batteries and wheels.