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Yingling Aviation Finds Growth Following MRO Expansion

A new hangar and paint facility are helping to drive more MRO projects at Yingling Aviation while helping to blunt the effects of Covid-19.

Yingling Aviation crews prepare a Hawker 800XP for paint at its new paint operation. (Photo: AIN/Jerry Siebenmark)

By Jerry Siebenmark • Senior Editor

June 16, 2020

The addition of a new 23,000-sq-ft maintenance hangar and paint facility has proven to be a timely and beneficial expansion for Yingling Aviation, an independent FBO and MRO provider at Wichita Eisenhower National Airport. Part of a Yingling expansion and remodeling project, the new hangar and paint facility that’s housed within the 50,000-sq-ft former Hawker Beechcraft Services complex has helped to drive more maintenance work for the 74-year-old company, especially larger projects on Cessna Citations.

“Having those facilities really just changed the dynamic of our company,” Yingling president Andrew Nichols told AIN, adding that with the expansion the company has more than 200,000 sq ft of facilities.

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