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Key Air Reinstates Maintenance Department Capabilities
By: David A. Lombardo
Caption: The company will maintain its management and charter aircraft as well as other aircraft based at Waterbury-Oxford.
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Key Air, an aircraft management and charter firm, is reinstating a maintenance department to expand service capabilities and support for its managed aircraft fleet. It will also offer maintenance services to tenant aircraft based at its Waterbury-Oxford (Conn.) Airport location. The MRO is performing on-site maintenance and repairs, in addition to its continued oversight, planning, scheduling and coordination of maintenance events and repairs. Key Air’s alliance with Pentastar Aviation to service its managed aircraft fleet will be phased out as Pentastar closes its Connecticut repair station to concentrate maintenance services at its Michigan-headquartered facilities.

Under the supervision of Key Air director of maintenance Jim Calabrese, the company has begun transitioning services and expanding the department’s personnel by adding Kenneth Schielke as its new maintenance manager and Tony Ryan, formerly a maintenance manager for Pentastar Aviation, as a senior mechanic/technician. “Returning to the full-service maintenance model expands our aircraft management service platform,” said Key Air president and CEO Alan DePeters.