Tue, Jan 16, 2007
New Facility To Open In 2009
Cessna Aircraft Company announced Monday it will construct a new
Citation Service Center at the Williams Gateway Airport (KIWA) in
Mesa, AZ and relocate tooling and employees from the
company’s Long Beach, CA service center. The new facility
will open in a phased transition by the first quarter of 2009.
"Customer preference and our business need to expand made it
necessary for us to consider a move, and Mesa’s government
and business development leadership made our decision to come to
Williams Gateway fairly easy," said Mark Paolucci, Cessna senior
vice president for Customer Service. "With the new center in Mesa,
we will have plenty of room to expand as our business grows, our
employees will enjoy a high quality of life, and the Phoenix area
will prove popular with our business jet customers coming here for
service."
Cessna will build a 100,000 square-foot facility –- more
than twice the size of its Long Beach facility –- on part of
its 15-acre tract adjacent to three 10,000-foot runways. Cessna
will also have a 124,800-square foot aircraft ramp, more than 10
times the size of its current Long Beach ramp.
The Cessna Citation Service Center network consists of 10
company owned centers in the US (including Long Beach) and Europe,
and more than two dozen authorized service centers around the
world. Cessna’s customer service group is consistently ranked
as an industry leader in a number of independent surveys.
Williams Gateway is a former Air Force base that closed in 1993
and was redeveloped as an aerospace center, an education, research
and training facility, and reliever airport for Phoenix Sky Harbor
International Airport.
Cessna will join a number of aerospace companies at KIWA, such
as Boeing and Pratt & Whitney, and educational facilities
including Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Chandler-Gilbert
Community College.
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