Maine-based MRO provider C&L Aerospace recently opened a new aircraft paint shop. The $3 million facility, a conversion of a 17,000-sq-ft hangar at Bangor International Airport, can accommodate an Lineage 1000, or it can be partitioned to hold a pair of aircraft the size of a Global simultaneously. The five-month, $6 million project refurbished two hangars and mated them with a newly built structure for an overall 120,000 sq ft of maintenance space capable of handling up to six jobs at once depending on the size of aircraft.
While the company’s Part 145 business has been geared to airline operations, CEO Chris Kilgour said the company is seeing more business aviation traffic. “We want to move further into this market,” he told AIN. “We’re bringing some of the airliner mentality over with us, but at the same time understand that it’s a different platform. Some of the larger operators that we’ve spoken with like the idea of us treating their fleets like an airline where we have the two shifts and we do the heavy maintenance nose to tail.”
