EBACE-Amac Opens Istanbul Facility, Prepares for PC-12 Sales
EBACE Convention News » May 16, 2012 by Neelam Mathews Kadri Muhiddin, executive chairman and CEO of Amac Aerospace. Photo by Mark Wagner May 15, 2012, 8:00 PM AMAC Aerospace’s recently acquired 16,000-sq-ft, $10 million hangar in Istanbul will be up and running by the end of this year, according to Kadri Muhiddin, executive chairman and CEO. The facility is to be used to provide maintenance support for the Pilatus PC-12NG , for which the company was recently appointed a fully authorized and exclusive sales agent in the Middle East. “In the interim, we will subsidize the work with small jets,” Muhiddin told AIN . AMAC has a total work force of 500 with sales of $1 billion. AMAC will market the Pilatus in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, Qatar, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Turkey. While only a handful of the turboprop singles are fl...