Story ID: 376
Jet Aviation Integrates Hawker Pacific Singapore
By: Chad Trautvetter
Caption: The Hawker Pacific operations at Singapore Seletar Airport have been successfully integrated into Jet Aviation.
Word Count: 330
The Hawker Pacific operations at Singapore Seletar Airport have been successfully integrated into Jet Aviation, the General Dynamics subsidiary announced late last month. This follows Jet Aviation's acquisition of Hawker Pacific last May, as well as the rebranding of Hawker Pacific FBOs in Australia to Jet Aviation in February. Both Jet Aviation and Hawker Pacific operated adjacent MRO and FBO facilities at Singapore Seletar.

As a single unified company, Jet Aviation’s expanded Singapore operation gains authorized service center status for Embraer and Dassault business jets, increases its available hangar space to nearly 20,000 sq m (215,278 sq ft), and more than doubles its headcount, now at 299 employees. Additionally, the move broadens the range of OEMs and aircraft types the location supports, while increasing its national aviation approvals to 19.

“We are delighted to see the two operations organized and functioning as one cohesive team,” said Louis Leong, Jet Aviation’s v-p of Asia and general manager at the Singapore facility. “It’s a big challenge to integrate two sites without disrupting customer services.”

With the integration of the Singapore facility now complete and recent rebranding of the former Hawker Pacific FBOs in Sydney, Cairns, Darwin, and Perth, as well as two facilities in Brisbane, only the Hawker Pacific facility in Shanghai—Shanghai Hawker Pacific Business Aviation Service Centre—continues to retain its original branding.

Following the acquisition of Hawker Pacific by Jet Aviation almost a year ago, the company also formed a new region in Asia-Pacific headed by Joe Reckling. Jet Aviation’s Asia-Pacific region now has more than 20 locations, including a regional MRO hub in Singapore, regional headquarters in Sydney, and some 1,100 employees, it said.

In total, Jet Aviation operates 34 FBOs across America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. In addition to its FBOs, Jet Aviation provides maintenance, completions and refurbishment, engineering, and personnel services. Its aircraft management and charter divisions jointly operate a fleet of 300 aircraft.
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