SABCA & Sabena Aerospace sign a Memorandum Of Understanding
The two companies are planning to develop Maintenance Repair Overhaul and
Upgrade acvies for military aircraſt in Africa from Morocco
Casablanca, November 26th2018, SABCA and Sabena Aerospace are signing, on the occasion of the state visit of Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid of Belgium, Representave of His Majesty the King, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the objecve of creang a major and independent regional player in Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul and upgrade (MRO&U) for military aircraſt.
An MRO&U center in Africa
SABCA, through its subsidiary SABCA Maroc, partner with Sabena Aerospace to propose, from Morocco, services for military aircraſt maintenance.
The first idenfied plaorm is the C-130, a military transport aircraſt built by Lockheed. The aircraſt is well known by Sabena Aerospace, one of the first company in the world to be cerfied in 1976 by Lockheed to provide maintenance services on the C-130.
In a second phase, the partners want to extend their offer to other plaorms mastered by SABCA such as F-16, Alphajet, Mirage F1 or Agusta A-109.
If those services will be naturally developed in priority for the Royal Moroccan Air Force (RMAF), SABCA and Sabena Aerospace intenon is to offer this new capability to other countries, making Morocco a major regional player in the military maintenance.
Morocco, a logical choice
" Morocco has quickly became a natural choice to install this new base.»explain Thibauld Jongen, CEO of the SABCA Group.
" The experience gained through the development of our subsidiary SABCA Maroc is very posive: the workforce is highly skilled, the government encourage the industrial development and both our countries want to strengthen their cooperaon.
We produce in Casablanca assemblies for Airbus and Dassault Aviaon aircraſt since 2012 et we are planning to further develop this acvity.
In term of aircraſt maintenance, we also have strong es with the country as we modernized, in close cooperaon with the RMAF, their Mirage F1 and Alphajet fleets. A very successful experience which leſt only good memories to both pares.
We are therefore looking forward to wring a new chapter to our cooperaon with Morocco together with Sabena Aerospace"
A partnership between SABCA and Sabena Aerospace
« We are pleased to start this first collaborave venture with the SABCA group. For several years now, Sabena Aerospace aims to develop industrial partnership with major aerospace players in Belgium to offer unique soluon to the market thanks to the combinaon of their respecve experse"says Stéphane Burton, CEO of Sabena Aerospace.
Since 2014, Sabena Aerospace has developed a partnership model in several Europe Middle East & Africa (EMEA) countries combining technical assistance and training. We are looking forward to materializing this project with SABCA with an industrial iniave in Morocco.
Beside the historical links between Belgium and Morocco, Sabena Aerospace has strong es, for several decades, with the Moroccan aviaon professionals including Royal Air Maroc for which the support of the airlines in several airport in the EMEA"
Finally, like the partnership between the Belgium Defense and the Belgian industry, this combined offer from two major players in the military maintenance will allow the RMAF to develop a long term strategic partnership with a Moroccan industrial player, opmize operaonal availability of their fleet and strengthen the Moroccan aeronauc experse.
We are looking forward to quickly starng this partnership with SABCA and theRoyal Moroccan Air Force."
About SABCA
The SABCA Group, made up of SABCA (Société Anonyme Belge de Construcons Aéronauques) and its subsidiaries SABCA Limburg and SABCA Maroc, conducts operaons from three Belgian regions (Brussels-Capital Region, Charleroi in Wallonia, and Lummen in Flanders), as well as from Casablanca, Morocco. Today, it demonstrates experse that is as rich as it is varied, built over its 98+ years of experience in designing, manufacturing, maintaining, and updang large and complex elements for aircraſt and space launchers. Its customers and partners belong to the elite of the aerospace world and are spread worldwide. SABCA offers a full range of services to the civil and military aviaon markets and recently in the UAS market for as plaorm design and manufacturing, ground-and flight tesng, UAS qualificaon and cerficaon.
Press Contact,Sophia Abdoue-e-mail:sophia.abdoue@sabca.be
About Sabena Aerospace
Sabena Aerospace is an independent Belgian MRO provider operang at internaonal level and offering maintenance and operaonal soluons for both civil and military aircraſt. The acvies of Sabena Aerospace are structured in 4 Business Units: Engineering & Training, Operaonal Support, Components and Defense. Sabena Aerospace employs over 400 people and develops its acvies from its historic headquarters at Brussels Airport, thanks to its facilies in 9 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, Tanzania, Congo RDC, Congo Brazzaville, Zimbabwe & Mauritania). It's internaonal commercial moo perfectly summaries the company's strategy: "Keep Flying, We Take Care"
Press Contact,Luc Van de Winckel-e-mail:Luc.Vandewinckel@sabena-aerospace.com
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