Engines Maintenance

The Engine Maintenance Facilities occupy a service area of 16,000 sq.m which house 18 production shops fully capable of providing repair, overhaul, modification and testing to a wide range of aircraft turbofan, turbojet, turboshaft, turboprop and reciprocating engines. All Engine Maintenance Facility Shops are properly equipped to perform overhaul services and support operations. This equipment include among others the following:

· Overhead cranes.

· Engine stands and fixtures.

· Static and dynamic balancing machines.

· Big variety of cleaning and etching baths.

· Ultrasonic cleaners.

· Grit blast.

· Shot peening machines.

· Complete NDT Facility (FPI, MPI,

X-RAY, ULTRASONIC,

EDDY CURRENT).

· Bearing Room.

· Numerically controlled lathes and milling

machines.

· Jig bores & High Speed Grinder.

· Honing machines.

· Electron Discharge Machine (EDM).

· Electron beam welding.

· Dumber welding (ACUA).

· Inert gas welding.

· Heat Treatment Furnace.

· Vacuum Furnace.

· Air Plasma spray & High Velocity Oxygen Fuel (HVOF).

· Surface treatment, painting, plating.

· Engine Accessory Test stands (Fuel, Oil, Air).

An expansion of the Engine Maintenance facilities by 8,000 sq.m will be in operation by Mid 2001 and will accommodate civil aviation engines. A second expansion of 1,200 sq.m is under completion and will house additional chemical processing equipment and operations.

The Engine Maintenance Business Unit is an authorized service center to provide maintenance support to third parties for the:

§ SNECMA ATAR 09K50 & M53

§ ROLLS ROYCE - ALLISON T56 (Military and Civil versions), and

§ Honeywell Aerospace T53.

The Engines Maintenance Business Unit provides on-site customer support and technical assistance

ENGINE TEST CELLS

The capacity of the long time existing Engine Test Cell is up to 30,000 lbs of thrust, capable to accommodate many military engines and medium size civil aircraft power plants.

A new engine test cell started its operation on April 2001. This new facility is of a 100,000 lbs thrust approximate capacity, enough to accommodate most of today military and/or civil power plants.

Both Test Cells utilize computer controlled automatic systems that provide rapid and accurate testing information, as well as testing instructions, limits and warnings on their color CRT display screen and/or printouts.

ENGINEERING SUPPORT

The Engines Maintenance Business Unit Engineering performs activities on:

§ Design and development of engine repair schemes (salvages).

§ Design of special tools and equipment for the engine maintenance operations.

§ Engine or parts life extension studies.

§ Plan specific processes as well as engine inspections and investigations.

The support capabilities of the Engines Maintenance Facilities cover a large number of engines

4,549 engines + 845 modules delivered by the end of 2004

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