DAHER Appoints 208 Aviation as TBM Service Center for South Africa

Pretoria, South Africa, June 20, 2016 – Daher today announced that 208 Aviation, a private independent company, has been appointed as the TBM Service Center for the Southern Africa region. 208 Aviation provides professional maintenance and support for new and used turbine aircraft. Based at Wonderboom Airport – just north of Pretoria, South Africa – it holds Civil Aviation Authority approvals for maintenance in South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The company also operates in such neighboring countries as Botswana, Lesotho, Nigeria and Swaziland.

“After an extensive survey of the companies offering maintenance services for general aviation aircraft in Southern Africa, we selected 208 Aviation based on its superior workmanship and dedication to excellent customer service – which are key contributing factors to the success of our TBM aircraft.” explained Nicolas Chabbert, Senior Vice President of the Daher Airplane Business Unit. “Through such a partnership, we look forward to developing our TBM sales in this region.” Ben Esterhuizen, the manager of 208 Aviation, said his company has become strong, internationally-recognized aircraft maintenance organization that is well positioned to serve the family of TBM very fast turboprop aircraft. “We thank Daher for selecting us as an official TBM Service Center in our region,” Esterhuizen added. “We’re ready to offer our skills across a full range of aircraft maintenance and support tasks.”