Canada-based MRO and completions specialist Flying Colours is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and to celebrate, the company is giving itself a present in the form of a major enhancement to its flagship Peterborough, Ontario facility. The first phase of the nearly $19 million ($25 million CDN) expansion, a 50,000-sq-ft paint facility large enough to accommodate Airbus A220s, will become operational this month, while a 50,000-sq-ft completions hangar will follow in the first quarter of 2020.
The company just completed its latest project, a Honeywell Primus Elite cockpit retrofit on a Bombardier Global Express along with the installation of the Honeywell JetWave Ka-band connectivity system in a unique two-phase job. Due to customer flight schedules, the work was broken down into two separate events, according to Kevin Kliethermes, the company’s director of sales. As part of the cockpit upgrade, all six obsolete CRT displays were removed and replaced with new lighter, cooler-running DU-875 units for clearer, high-resolution images such as those found in the Primus Elite Advanced Features software suite with its synthetic vision system.
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