Singapore, ST Aerospace expands at Singapore’s Seletar Aerospace Park (SAP) to cover a purpose-built General Aviation (GA) aircraft hangar, simulator center for pilot training, facilities for aviation technical training and a VIP facility for air charter customers.

Costing an estimated $26m, the facilities are expected to be ready by the end of 2012.  The investment value does not include the costs of fixed based training equipment and simulators that are planned for a later date ST Aerospace stated.

With a floor area of 3,960 square meters, the new GA hangar will double ST Aerospace’s existing capacity servicing business jets, helicopters and light aircraft.  In total, ST Aerospace plan to handle up to 24 GA aircraft and 11 narrow-body aircraft at any one time at its SAP facility.

In addition to serving third-party commercial customers, the new hangar will support ST Aerospace’s current fleet of air charter aircraft of two Bombardier Learjets, two Beechcraft King Air C90, one Eurocopter EC120 and one Gulfstream G550 aircraft.

ST Aerospace has also leased a 23,100 square meters plot of land opposite its current site,  accommodating training and support facilities for its commercial pilot and technical training businesses.  The new facilities planned to include a simulator center housing six full flight simulators and one full size fixed base simulator, as well as state-of-the-art computer-based training wired-up rooms for both Air Transport Pilot Licence and entry level ground training.  The training facility is designed for the Singapore Multi-crew Pilot Licence programme.  The first Airbus A320 simulator scheduled to be installed by the end of 2012.

The new site will house a VIP lounge for ST Aerospace’s air charter customers, training facilities for aviation technical training and an administration building for its MRO management and support staff.

Chang Cheow Teck, President, ST Aerospace commented “ST Aerospace has a long and rich history in Seletar that dates back 1975.   Over the years, our Seletar base has expanded beyond just providing aircraft MRO services to also include air charter and pilot training.  This capacity expansion will strengthen our global capacity to better support our customers in the various areas of our core business.”

Source: ST Aerospace