TARMAC AEROSAVE Moves Toward US Market With a Comprehensive Offering

April 24, 2017
TARMAC AEROSAVE is positioning itself as a transit centre by providing a comprehensive service and ensuring maintenance in operational conditions: storage, maintenance and dismantling.

TARMAC AEROSAVE, Europe's leading aircraft storage and recycling company, based in Tarbes (France) and Teruel (Spain), has announced it will take part in its first MRO Americas show, in Orlando from 25 to 27 April 2017. With major extensions to storage and hangars, and more than 400 aircraft having already been held on its sites, TARMAC AEROSAVE presents a unique comprehensive offering for US operators transiting in Europe.

A “one-stop shop” range of services to the gates of Europe

TARMAC AEROSAVE offers the biggest aircraft storage capacity in Europe backed up by its strong MRO and dismantling capabilities. Both sites can accommodate up to 250 aircraft and the maintenance activity covers the main commercial platforms (Airbus, Boeing, ATR, Bombardier, Embraer). A dedicated engine workshop also covers the CFM56 family for both dismantling and repair workshops. With its environmentally friendly approach TARMAC AEROSAVE develops the most advanced dismantling and recycling techniques under its ISO 14001 certification and achieves over 90% valorization of the remaining airframes.

TARMAC AEROSAVE is positioning itself as a transit centre by providing a comprehensive service and ensuring maintenance in operational conditions: storage, maintenance and dismantling. EASA Part 147 approved training and logistics complete the range of services.

Extension of French and Spanish facilities

TARMAC AEROSAVE is continuing to expand its infrastructure to meet growing demand for storage and dismantling from its customers around the world.

In Tarbes (France) a new 7,500 m² logistics hangar will be operational by May 2017. Extensions for storing A380 type aircraft, storage and a second hangar for extra wide bodied jets will be completed at the end of 2017, and a new hangar to accommodate extra wide bodied jets in 2018.

In Teruel (Spain), a new mid-haul hangar is now available. Construction work on a 5,000 m² logistics hangar and customer offices will be launched before the end of 2017.

Eventually, TARMAC AEROSAVE will have four hangars on these two sites for extra wide-bodied jets, a hangar for medium aircraft, and 15,000 m2 of logistics hangars and aircraft storage for more than 250 wide-bodied jets.

About Tarmac Aerosave

Founded in 2007 under the auspices of AIRBUS, SUEZ and SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, TARMAC AEROSAVE has been based in Tarbes-Lourdes in France since early 2009 and in Teruel, Spain, since 2013. It is Europe’s leading company for aircraft storage, aircraft maintenance, aircraft recycling and CFM56 engines recycling, and the processes developed and designed by the company are new and fully environmentally friendly, implementing a unique diamond wire cutting gantry. TARMAC AEROSAVE holds EASA and FAA Part 145 maintenance approvals for Airbus, Boeing, ATR and Bombardier aircraft, and EASA Part-147 for its training centre.

TARMAC AEROSAVE also holds ISO 9001, ISO 14 001, EN 9110, and EN 9120 certifications. TARMAC AEROSAVE in numbers: 430 aircraft accommodated on its sites since 2009, 100 aircraft currently stored, 95 aircraft and 85 CFM56 engines recycled to date, storage capacity for 250 aircraft in Europe.