Asal Aeronautics Turkey, opens new painting hangar

Asal Aeronautics opened its new, one bay wide body painting hangar on May 2nd. The first aircraft to be painted was an Airbus A321 from Turkish Airlines, which had its livery changed to that of Star Alliance. Stripping and painting took only 6 days and was performed by high qualified workers from Toulouse, France, who have years of aircraft painting experience. Furthermore to the painting hangar Asal is operating a 3 bay maintenance hangar for Boeing and Airbus aircraft. Asal plans to carry out C-checks in 2012.