Airbus Corporate Jet Centre Delivers an Ultra-customized and High Quality ACJ320 VVIP Cabin
Airbus Corporate Jet Centre (ACJC), the specialist in Airbus Corporate Jet VIP cabin completion and customised nose-to-tail services, has reached a new peak in customisation and quality for an undisclosed customer in the Middle East in delivering its 27th ACJ cabin.
The VVIP Airbus ACJ320, which is certificated to seat 27 passengers, has been entirely designed by the ACJC Creative Design Studio around a modern Arabic ambiance, matching the customer’s origins and tastes, and offering the latest cabin technologies.
The cabin’s customisation has been pursued to the extreme, through very subtle details. In every part of his cabin, the customer can find a discreet modern Arabic pattern, present on different materials. This includes decorative inlays on seat back-rests and leather embossing on head-rests, a bright finish satin frieze on valence panels, back-lit ornamental glass in partitions and the head-board of the master bed, and a finely-worked plinth that helps cooling air circulate inside the zones.
But the centrepiece of this pattern redundancy is based on another spectacular design innovation in cabinetwork: a modern Arabic motif that appears back-lit on one of the main lounge’s wooden partitions. “According to his mood, the customer can light-up, from a personal digital pad, this decorative divider, like a luminous mashrabiyya,” says Sylvain Mariat, Head of ACJC Creative Design Studio.
“Every part of the cabin has been a creative and engineering design challenge,” he adds. “We committed to our customer to create an unmatched TV Lift system, hiding the large 52” screen in a low sideboard, under a totally smooth glossy surface. In addition, the TV display needed to be electrically actuated when commanded to appear, and capable of rotating through +/- 15°. And we did it!”
“At the delivery phase, our customer told us that the level of cabin quality and the ergonomics were amazing,” says Joël Frugier, General Manager of ACJC. “This VVIP cabin is the third we have delivered to this customer, showing that ACJC aims at building a strong relationship with its clients, based on long-term confidence and commitment,” he concludes.
Airbus Corporate Jet Centre
Dedicated to providing quality cabin-outfitting and innovative packages of customised nose-to-tail services for Airbus ACJ family aircraft, the Airbus Corporate Jet Centre (ACJC) is small enough to provide personal service to customers, with around 260 employees, but is also backed by the full resources of its shareholder, Airbus, the world's largest manufacturer of modern airliners.
Based in Toulouse, France, Airbus Corporate Jet Centre is now the world leader for ACJ319/ACJ320 VIP cabin completion, having delivered 27 VIP cabins to prestigious customers in Asia, Europe and the Middle East (including 11 delivered by the workforce when it was part of EADS Sogerma).
The Airbus Corporate Jet Centre also specialises in tailor-made services and maintenance for ACJs, including the A320, A330 and A340 families. In 2009 the company launched VIP Pass, a package of nose-to-tail services developed for executive and private operators of Airbus corporate jets.
