Hawker Pacific has announced plans to relocate its aircraft modification activities from Bankstown Airport to its Cairns International Airport facility.
This move is intended to maximise the use of the modern Cairns facility and to capture additional modification work from the South East Asian and Pacific regions.
Hawker Pacific CEO Alan Smith said the decision was driven by emerging markets in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands.
"Increasingly we are seeing demand for quite sophisticated systems integration tasks as part of the broader modification programs we perform," Smith said. "Consequently, co-locating the structural modification capability within the same facility as Australian Avionics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hawker Pacific, is a logical move. The transfer is expected to create at least 12 additional positions at the Cairns facility, increasing total staff numbers there to over 110."
The design engineering arm of the company, Hawker Pacific Technologies, which employs 13 fully qualified aeronautical engineers and support staff, will continue to operate from Hawker’s Bankstown facilities, providing solution-based design engineering services to both external and internal customers.
The Bankstow- based MRO workforce will be rationalised appropriately to continue to provide authorised service centre support to operators of Hawker Beechcraft, Diamond Aircraft, and Bell Helicopters, as well as a renewed focus on meeting customer needs with world class service levels.
