STTS appoints Aircraft Support Industries to take on building works of wide body painting hangar

In order to respond to the growing needs of the aerospace industry in terms of painting facilities and to offer customers in the Middle East greater proximity STTS has appointed Aircraft Support Industries (ASI) to take on the building works of its wide body painting hangar at the new Al Maktoum International airport. Delivery is finally expected early 2019. The state-of-the-art facility will mainly target MRO painting needs for all types of commercial wide bodies (A380, B777, A350, B787 etc.). The facility will provide approximately 6,000 m² of hangar space and 1600 m² of offices and workshops. This will be STTS’s first hangar in the region. The masterplan for the development includes for the future provision of a narrow bodied painting hangar adjacent to the A380 capable hangar on the same land plot.