Looking at organic growth in 2014, BBA Aviation (Booth D63), a global provider for support and aftermarket services, is viewing opportunities for acquisitions this year, according to the UK-based group’s Asia Pacific president David Best. He did not elaborate on possible targets but the group has acknowledged that it would like to add to its already-extensive chain of FBOs, which includes a new base at Singapore’s Changi Airport. “We will carry on extending scope and scale from our Singapore base,” he told AIN, adding “We welcome [economic] recovery in Asia Pacific.”
During 2013, the company’s Signature Flight Support FBO network and its Ontic manufacturing and aftermarket support division both started operations in Singapore alongside its turbine engine repair facility operated by subsidiary Dallas Airmotive, which is exhibiting at the Singapore Airshow for the first time. The two-year old Dallas Airmotive facility at Seletar Aerospace Park is the only Honeywell-approved major periodic inspection center for TFE731 engines in the region.
