Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 9, 2005 22:21:29 GMT 12
This is interesting. I wonder if the cargo door will be big enough for a LAV 4?
From here
www.al.com/business/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/business/1131717021152681.xml&coll=3
MAE awarded $38M contract
Friday, November 11, 2005
By GEORGE TALBOT
Business Reporter
ST Mobile Aerospace Engineering Inc. said Thursday it was awarded a $38 million contract to convert a pair of passenger jets into cargo carriers for the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
The deal to convert Boeing 757-200 airplanes into so-called "Special Freighters" is the first Mobile Aerospace has landed since signing a licensing agreement with Chicago-based Boeing Co. last year.
Under terms of the contract, Mobile Aerospace will convert two Boeing passenger jets purchased by the New Zealand Ministry of Defence into multi-use freighters capable of carrying different combinations of cargo, passengers and medical evacuation teams
Mobile Aerospace has about 1,200 workers at its aircraft maintenance and repair hub at the Brookley Field Industrial Complex, making it the largest private employer in Mobile County. It was unclear Thursday whether the contract would result in additional jobs. Officials with Mobile Aerospace and its parent company, the Singapore-based Singapore Technologies Ltd., could not be reached for comment.
"We are pleased with the confidence the New Zealand government has placed in us," Tay Kok Khiang, president of Singapore Technologies' aerospace division, said in a news release. "We also expect interests in the (Special Freighter) to build up with the continued growth of the freight market."
Mobile Aerospace is scheduled to receive the first aircraft in October 2006 and complete the conversion of two planes within two years, the company said.
Singapore Technologies and a partner, the government-owned Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd., signed a licensing agreement with Boeing last year to develop and sell the 757-200 Special Freighter, and the three companies have been working together to recruit customers.
Boeing has projected that the air cargo industry will need about 250 medium standard-body freighters in the next 20 years, and that most of those will come from passenger-to-freighter conversions.
From here
www.al.com/business/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/business/1131717021152681.xml&coll=3
MAE awarded $38M contract
Friday, November 11, 2005
By GEORGE TALBOT
Business Reporter
ST Mobile Aerospace Engineering Inc. said Thursday it was awarded a $38 million contract to convert a pair of passenger jets into cargo carriers for the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
The deal to convert Boeing 757-200 airplanes into so-called "Special Freighters" is the first Mobile Aerospace has landed since signing a licensing agreement with Chicago-based Boeing Co. last year.
Under terms of the contract, Mobile Aerospace will convert two Boeing passenger jets purchased by the New Zealand Ministry of Defence into multi-use freighters capable of carrying different combinations of cargo, passengers and medical evacuation teams
Mobile Aerospace has about 1,200 workers at its aircraft maintenance and repair hub at the Brookley Field Industrial Complex, making it the largest private employer in Mobile County. It was unclear Thursday whether the contract would result in additional jobs. Officials with Mobile Aerospace and its parent company, the Singapore-based Singapore Technologies Ltd., could not be reached for comment.
"We are pleased with the confidence the New Zealand government has placed in us," Tay Kok Khiang, president of Singapore Technologies' aerospace division, said in a news release. "We also expect interests in the (Special Freighter) to build up with the continued growth of the freight market."
Mobile Aerospace is scheduled to receive the first aircraft in October 2006 and complete the conversion of two planes within two years, the company said.
Singapore Technologies and a partner, the government-owned Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd., signed a licensing agreement with Boeing last year to develop and sell the 757-200 Special Freighter, and the three companies have been working together to recruit customers.
Boeing has projected that the air cargo industry will need about 250 medium standard-body freighters in the next 20 years, and that most of those will come from passenger-to-freighter conversions.
