Maintenance and Modifications
Jet Aviation Basel Completes BBJ Winglet Upgrade
The General Dynamics subsidiary is eager to do more of them.
Jet Aviation's maintenance facility in Basel, just completed its first retrofit of an Aviation Partners split scimitar winglet kit on a BBJ. The installation will provide a more-than 2 percent increase in the range of the aircraft, according to the manufacturer.
Jet Aviation's maintenance facility in Basel, just completed its first retrofit of an Aviation Partners split scimitar winglet kit on a BBJ. The installation will provide a more-than 2 percent increase in the range of the aircraft, according to the manufacturer.

Jet Aviation’s maintenance facility in Basel, Switzerland, has completed its first retrofit of split-scimitar winglets (SSW) on a Boeing Business Jet (BBJ), the global aviation services provider announced yesterday. The project, completed under an EASA-approved supplemental type certificate, involved installing a new Aviation Partners scimitar-tipped ventral strake, reinforcing the internal wing and winglet structure, and replacing the existing winglet tips with new aerodynamically shaped scimitar tips. Currently installed on all factory-new Boeing 737 NG BBJs, the split-scimiter winglet is FAA and EASA approved forreetrofit on all in-service BBJs, BBJ2s and BBJ3s.