Dubai Airshow: Altran's Wings Valley Becomes the Aviation District in Dubai

Paris (ots/PRNewswire) -

At the 2013 Paris Air Show, Dubai World Central (DWC) appointed
Altran "exclusive advisor and services designer" for the development
of the Aviation District in Dubai, the first, innovative Maintenance,
Repair and Overhaul (MRO) services centre dedicated to private
business jets and helicopters. Altran's innovative, new-generation
aeronautical valley will be inaugurated during the Dubai Airshow
between 17 and 21 November 2013.

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Within less than one year following the announcement of The Wings
Valley launch at the 2012 Middle East Business Aviation (MEBA) show,
Altran has not only designed a global, cutting edge services offering
for the Aviation District, but also become the DWC representative for
future players that will be involved in the MRO site, and taken on
the role of overseeing educative programmes with international
training institutions for qualified engineers, technicians, and
managers operating in the related sectors of activity. A first
selection of aviation industry majors will result in a series of
contracts due to be awarded at the Dubai Airshow.

To satisfy the constant demand in the private aviation sector for
qualified skills, reduced AOG (Aircrafts On Ground) time,
cutting-edge maintenance expertise and non-stop innovation, Altran
set out to create an MRO services offering that is the most
innovative in the world and underpinned by environmental,
technological, and educational excellence. Because of this, Aviation
District was founded with three fundamental priorities in mind:

- To deliver excellence regarding the knowledge of aeronautical activities
provided in the Engineering/Diagnostic Centre.
- To provide the dematerialisation of aircraft data, as well as content access
and sharing via the interactive iKnowledge Centre platform
- To offer educational and continuing training programmes for technicians,
engineers and pilots in conjunction with the Dubai Aerospace Institute of Technologies
(DAIT)

Aviation District is paving the way for future Wings Valley
projects which will be designed to address strong growth in the
business aviation sector, worldwide.

Aviation District: key figures

- Targeted completion date: beginning of 2015
- Maintenance capacity: more than 800,000msquared of technical hangars equipped
to service 100 planes per month (60 planes and 40 helicopters)
- Creation of more than 5,000 technical jobs
- Ground surface area of 210,000msquared (three times the size of the largest
European MRO centre)

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