SubscribePatria Aviation Oy and Danish Aerotech A/S have established a consortium, PD Aerotech, to offer full life cycle support and integrated logistics support for helicopters and aircraft.
The potential customers include among others the Royal Danish Air Force and NATO partners in Europe. This agreement is a step in Danish Aerotech and Patria’s joint strategy to become the leading life cycle support provider in the Nordic and Baltic Sea region.
“Patria has been looking for a reliable partner in Denmark for some time. We feel that now, with the Danish Armed Forces’ recent announcement of their intentions to outsource certain maintenance tasks, is the right time to act. I am convinced that combining our knowledge and skills with Danish Aerotech’s expertise in military maintenance tasks for the Danish Armed Forces, we will be able to offer cost effective life cycle maintenance and logistic support to military aircraft and helicopters”, says Aarne Nieminen, Executive Vice President of Patria Aviation.
The aim of PD Aerotech will be to offer its services through a long-term partnership model to its customers. There will be a strong focus on the support of a flexible transition from the present three level maintenance system, now performed solely by the Armed Forces, to a two level system based on a public-private partnership – a system which has been operating in Finland for more than 40 years with Patria Aviation as an important player.
PD Aerotech will operate from Danish Aerotech's facilities at Karup Air Base, Denmark. “Danish Aerotech was established in 1992 when the Royal Danish Air Force privatised its main workshops. We have a substantial and very successful expertise in maintaining aircraft for the Danish military through the first - and so far only - privatisation of military maintenance, which concerns 28 Saab T-17 trainer aircraft. Thus, we have more than a decade’s experience of working closely with the Air Force to build on, when preparing to meet their future maintenance requirements”, says Søren E. Petersen, CEO of Danish Aerotech.
Patria Aviation with more than 700 employees performs life cycle support and integrated logistic support for helicopters and aircraft in the Nordic and the Baltic Sea region. Patria Helicopters was recently founded as a result of Patria Aviation’s Business Strategy to strengthen its position within the business area of life cycle support and integrated logistic support for helicopters in the selected region.
Recently, Patria Aviationhas completed the assembly of the F-18 fighter aircraft, and is now assembling NH-90 helicopters and engines for Armed Forces of the Nordic countries. Patria Aviation also owns the Pilot Factory providing training to the Finnish Air Force as well as international military and civilian organisations.
Danish Aerotech specialises in the production and maintenance of mechanical, electrical and electronic parts and subassemblies for aircraft and helicopters, such as EH-101, Lynx, Sea King, AWACS, and F-16. It performs maintenance from line to depot level on aircraft such as the RDAF T-17 as well as Life Cycle Maintenance on missiles. Danish Aerotech also offers a modular solution to reconfiguration of transport aircraft.
Author:
Trine Klarsoe, Head of Marketing
Phone: +45 9962 6215
tk@aerotech.dk
