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Recovery helicopters
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Black hawk UHL60 Arpia FAC FAC 4132 & FAC 4135 helicopter post-accident recovery |
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The SUDAIR Corp. / SS Helitech Inc., Joint Venture represented in Colombia by SUDAMIN Aeronautica y Defensa SA, under contract with the Colombian Air Force -FAC-; developed the engineering and work for the recovery of two Black Hawk UH60L helicopters, which crashed in military operations against narco-terrorism. The rates of destruction of the aircraft were assessed between 70% and 80%.
Because the refusal of the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to provide the spare parts to the joint venture, it was necessary to investigate and implement the manufacture and repair of structural parts, rebuilding the whole electrical wiring and repair or replacement of most components of the helicopters.
Helitech SS Inc., Sudair Corp. and the FAC observed in this project a unique opportunity, because of all the aspects and circumstances that both parties should pass through. The FUERZA AÉREA COLOMBIANA urgently required an alternative because of the difficulties presented in similar contracts with the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and Helitech, while they had experience in other Sikorsky products; they do not have enough experience in the UH-60.
Accordingly, with the support of the FAC and the commitment and professionalism of the Joint Venture, it was possible to complete the long and complex work to return the certificate of airworthiness for the aircraft and recover for the FAC, an operationally capacity almost lost several months before.
Sudair Corp. manifests its immense satisfaction with its participation in this high-scientific and technological-level successful logistics. Obstacles of any kind were overcome and the technique, logistics and expertise were acquired to become a unique alternative to develop this type of work worldwide.
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Training aircraft manufacturing
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The CIAC, Sudair Corp, and Lancair Inc. alliance installed an aircraft factory in Colombia |
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Through an agreement signed on January 6, 2009, the strategic alliance formed by the Corporación de la Industria Aeronáutica de Colombia (CIAC), State Enterprise, and the Lancair Inc. and Sudair Corp. companies from the United States, represented in Colombia by the company Sudamin Aeronautica y Defensa SA, agreed to develop a business in Colombia that shall include: (i) the manufacture and delivery to the Colombian Air Force, FAC, of twenty-five (25) aircraft for training of public forces at a national level, (ii) the implementation of a plant Colombia to manufacture these and other aircraft, and (iii) the operation of a subsequent business to make of this production plant a sustainable factory for a minimum period of ten (10) years, in order to create Technology Transfer for the CIAC.
The plant is located at the Air Force Base, Madrid, 30 kilometers from Bogota DC and comes into operation in July 2009. The first Lancair Legacy FG aircraft, completely manufactured in Colombia with national manpower, will be delivered to the FAC in September 2009. The new plant will have capacity to manufacture two aircraft per month and it will be enabled to market its product in Latin America.
Within the subsequent businesses, the manufacture of other aircraft such as the "Evolution" plane has been agreed, a crop dusting aircraft (agricultural aircraft) and other aircraft. Similarly, the operation of the plant for the production and repair of parts in composite materials for military and commercial aircraft worldwide has been agreed.
Sudamin Aeronautical and Defense S.A. and Sudair Corp. believe their participation in the manufacture of aircraft in Colombia and in the development of the national aviation industry was really successful, along with such prestigious companies as the CIAC and LANCAIR.
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