Mark Huber is an aviation industry veteran who has worked in the flight training, aircraft sales, aircraft component, and airport development businesses. He has flight time in more than 50 different and diverse aircraft, including helicopters, aerobatic aircraft, vintage warbirds, jet fighters, business jets and turboprops, and transport-category aircraft. He has jumped out of several of these—on purpose—with a parachute. His defense and aviation journalism has been published in a variety of national and international periodicals.

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Mark Huber

German MRO FAI Technik&nbsp;has opened a maintenance base at the Willy Brandt Berlin Brandenburg Airport (EDDB). Located in the general aviation terminal, FAI’s new facility includes more than&nbsp;36,000 sq&nbsp;ft of hangar space and 14,000 sq&nbsp;ft of workshops, stores, and offices. FAI Technik is the second MRO serving business aircraft at EDDB and&nbsp;the only one to support more than one aircraft manufacturer’s maintenance services.&nbsp;FAI will employ some 90 percent of Beechcraft Berlin Aviation’s (BBA) former workforce at the facility, following BBA’s filing for insolvency in 2022.
The location will offer line and base maintenance for aircraft including the Hawker HS125, Beechcraft Premier I/IA, and King Air-series aircraft and line maintenance checks to 1C for Gulfstreams including the G280, G450, G500, G550, and G650/650ER.&nbsp;
Additionally, an AOG team for Learjet and Bombardier aircraft will be deployed to support the FAI rent-a-jet fleet of Learjet 60, Challenger 604, and Global Express aircraft that regularly operate in and out of EDDB.&nbsp;The facility will complement FAI’s existing center of competence for base maintenance and modifications of Learjet and Bombardier aircraft at its headquarters at Albrecht Duerer Airport in&nbsp;Nuremberg.

News and issues about aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), covering all segments of the aviation industry; and modifications for aircraft and engines. Subjects include product support of aircraft, engines and avionics, MRO company mergers, acquisitions, announcements and personnel, Airworthiness Directives, Supplemental Type Certificate approvals and other topics.

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