ExecuJet MRO Services Malaysia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dassault Aviation, has opened a purpose-built maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility at Subang Airport, built to serve business jet operators from across Asia. At 149,500ft2, the facility area is Malaysia’s largest business aviation MRO centre – more than twice the size of ExecuJet MRO Services Malaysia’s previous operation, which opened in 2009.
“We are expanding support for operators of multiple aircraft brands across the region. The Subang facility is key to that strategy,” said Graeme Duckworth, president of ExecuJet MRO Services Group, at the opening event.
ExecuJet MRO Services Group was established in South Africa in 1991 and then expanded internationally. Besides Malaysia and South Africa, it now also has MRO facilities in Australia, New Zealand, UAE and Belgium, as well as a franchise in China.
ExecuJet MRO Services invests in training its personnel to be internationally certified, so it is approved to perform line and heavy maintenance on aircraft registered with regional civil aviation authorities together with FAA and EASA, whether on Dassault, Bombardier, Embraer, Gulfstream, Hawker, and various other aircraft. Thus there is new training space at Subang to further these authorisations and grow the workforce. Ivan Lim, Execujet’s regional VP for MRO services in Asia said the company expects to grow the Subang workforce from 84 to 100 by year end, and to continue growing its numbers over the next five years.
The ExecuJet MRO Services Malaysia facility is among several development projects that fall under the Subang Airport Regeneration Plan (SARP), and represents a pivotal step forward in advancing the planned business aviation sector. Anchored on three key segments – aerospace, business aviation and city airport – one of the aims of the SARP is to transform Subang Airport into a regional hub for business aviation.
