StandardAero facility to become major global helicopter maintenance and overhaul centre
Winnipeg is about to become a major global centre for the maintenance, repair and overhaul of helicopter engines as a result of reorganization within StandardAero’s Canadian facility network.
One of StandardAero’s six Winnipeg plants is in the process of being retrofitted to take on helicopter work that had been done at a shop in Richmond, B.C.
The reorganization announced Thursday comes six months after Scottsdale. Ariz.-based StandardAero bought Airbus’s engine-repair division, Vector Aerospace. Vector had more than US$700 million in annual revenue in 2016, and 2,200 employees — 900 based in Canada, including approximately 280 at the Richmond shop scheduled to be gradually phased out.
Read full story in the Winnipeg Free Press.
