AMAC Aerospace: Best Private Aviation Services EMEA 2018

Serving the needs of the global jet-set, Swiss specialist aviation company AMAC Aerospace is flying high from locations in Europe and the Middle East. The company, the largest privately-owned of its kind in the world, has become a leader in VVIP completion. In four hangars located at the Basel-Mulhouse airport, AMAC Aerospace is able to service all classes of planes up to and including Airbus 380s. The facility covers a floorspace in excess of ten hectares.

The company is the preferred partner of governments, private clients and corporations that seek to renew, update or refurbish their singular aircraft and/or their fleet of VIP aircraft. AMAC Aerospace is currently working on one Boeing B747-8i, amongst others and has recently received the approval by Airbus Corporate Jets to be a dedicated and recommended completion centre for the new Airbus A350XWB long-range wide body aircraft. AMAC Aerospace are one of three completion centres in the world selected to be an approved completion centre for this Airbus variant. The company is currently underway to finalising work on the first Airbus A320 NEO in VVIP configuration.

AMAC Aerospace also operates its own maintenance facility at the Bodrum-Milas airport in Turkey. Here, the company services selected Airbus and Boeing products. Since opening this new centre, AMAC Aerospace has secured a number of large maintenance contracts. In 2016, the company acquired French cabin interiors manufacturer JCB Aero which specialises in the conversion of aircraft to VVIP standards as well as rotar wing craft in VIP configuration. Currently AMAC’s sister company, JCB Aero produce 4x ship sets per month to Airbus Eurocopter, based in Toulouse, France. The company now employs well over one thousand professionals and operates on the one-stop-shop principle: customers may address all their needs and requirements via a single point of contact. This ensures optimum efficiency throughout all stages of VVIP aircraft completion projects.

The CFI.co judging panel notes that AMAC Aerospace is recognised as a corporate group comprised of four distinct companies: AMAC Corporate Jet, AMAC Aerospace Turkey, JCB Aero. The judges agree to name AMAC Aerospace winner of the Best Private Aviation Service EMEA Award.