Tue, Jan 27, 2009
Scotland Center Will Also House Simulator
Eurocopter UK announced Tuesday plans to build a major new
helicopter service centre at Kirkhill Commercial Park in Dyce,
Aberdeen. The center will bring the most up-to-date helicopter
support technology to one of the busiest off shore oil and gas
helicopter maintenance hubs in the world.
The facility, which will be designed and built for Eurocopter UK
by Knight Property Group, will offer logistical and technical
support and flight simulator training for the UK's main heliport
for the offshore oil industry. Home to major offshore helicopter
operators Bristow Helicopters, Bond Offshore and CHC, Aberdeen is
already a maintenance center for 59 Super Puma/ EC255 family
helicopters which fly an average of 85,000 hours per year in
offshore missions, representing some of the most intensive
helicopter traffic in the world.
The Eurocopter centre will comprise a 10,000 sq ft logistics
warehouse and 5,000 sq ft of offices as well as 5,360 sq ft of
flight simulator accommodation, which will house Eurocopter's first
UK-based EC225 Flight Training Simulator. Work at the site will
begin with ground breaking in April, and it is expected that the
facility will be completed by December 2009. The centre will occupy
the 1.2 acre site four at Knight Property Group's Kirkhill
Commercial Park.
"The new state of the art Eurocopter facility in Aberdeen
reinforces Eurocopter's commitment to investing in the UK, and to
bringing the best technical and logistical support to where our
customers need it most," said Markus Steinke, Managing Director of
Eurocopter UK. "We aim to have a network of local operations close
to our customers throughout the UK. With our already strong
presence in England, Wales and Ireland, we are pleased to be now
making a further commitment to Scotland."
Established in 1992, the Franco-German-Spanish Eurocopter Group
is a division of aerospace consortium EADS, and employs
approximately 15,600 people.
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