Aerospace Diary

AIN DEFENSE PERSPECTIVE  »  AUGUST 29, 2014 by    NEELAM MATHEWS Indian Air Force chief of staff Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha flew the Pilatus PC-7 Mk II at the Air Force Academy, Dundigal, Hyderabad in June this year. August 27, 2014, 10:17 AM As part of its offset agreement related to a purchase by India’s air force, Pilatus Aircraft has signed a 10-year contract with Tata Advanced Systems ( TASL ) for the Indian company to supply aerostructures for the  PC -12  NG  utility turboprop single. Tata will replace existing supplier  PZL -Swidnik of Poland. This is India’s first major private partnership, and results from the 30-percent offset obligation (worth about $165 million) that Pilatus incurred in its sale of 75  PC -7 Mk  II  trainers and associated systems to the Indian Air Force ( IAF ). The  PC -7 contract also requires Pilatus to cooperate with Hindustan Aeronautics ( HAL ) in creat...

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...