They're Working On A New Design And Engineering Company
Yankee Pacific, LLC, of Rye (NH),
and Lufthansa Technik, AG of Hamburg, Germany, partners in a Tulsa
(OK) completion engineering center for BBJ and other large business
jets, have finished the reorganization of their working
agreement.
Yankee Pacific has completed the acquisition of 100 percent of
the assets of the Tulsa operations of Lufthansa Technik Completion
Engineering, LLC. The new company, Executive Aircraft Completions,
LLC, (EAC) will maintain its current offices, operations and
employees in Tulsa. Lufthansa Technik is continuing to perform VIP
completions in Hamburg, Germany, and will collaborate with EAC and
other industry companies.
Executive Aircraft Completions will continue to provide
Lufthansa Technik and other completion centers with its unique and
proprietary solid-modeling software-created design and engineering
packages, while Lufthansa Technik will continue performing major
VIP completions operations in Hamburg.
EAC provides full-service project management or turn-key design,
engineering and certification services that enable a completion to
take place in a newly-efficient and effective way, whether working
directly for the aircraft OEM or owner, or working in support of an
established completion center.
Ken Goldsmith, Yankee Pacific principal, said both companies
recognize the need to make completions capacity newly-efficient,
and expect a solid ongoing market, worldwide. "With our strong
ongoing relationship we have with Lufthansa Technik, we will
continue to support them with our unique expertise in design and
engineering of interiors for BBJs and other large-cabin
aircraft.
"We are currently completing a BBJ2 for a Middle-East client
through our original partnership arrangement. We see our
collaboration continuing to develop, and evolve new and efficient
approaches to the completions industry," Goldsmith added.
Goldsmith said in light of
increasing demand, Executive Aircraft Completions has introduced
its VIP Express™ interior for the BBJ. "This package meets a
real need for value and minimum downtime in BBJ completions. It
provides Boeing customers or completion centers with a fast-build,
fully-designed and -engineered interior for a mixed-cabin
completion, deliverable in less than five to six months from start
of work at a completion center. We are very pleased with the market
reaction to this package."
Rick Richardson, VP engineering and certification at EAC, also
said the current interior completion process can be improved in new
ways using Executive Aircraft Completions' proprietary
software.
"It assists designers, completion centers and their clients alike,
right from the initial concepts through production and
certification," he said. "The build-and-fit check process is
essentially eliminated, our solid-modeling software and processes
guarantees perfect fit from the very beginning, and that makes the
completion process extremely efficient, by reducing downtime and
cost. A qualified completion center can build and install our
fully-engineered designs and have them fit first time," Richardson
added.
Executive Aircraft Completions offers its design, engineering and
certification services to large cabin business jet owners and
manufacturers, designers, completions managers and completion
centers worldwide.