French Aeronavale Lynx: new multi-year maintenance contract

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Vector Aerospace UK will provide structural maintenance and technical support for the French Navy's Lynx Mk4 helicopter fleet under a five year agreement announced on 19 November.

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The company’s Fleetlands facility in Gosport, Hampshire, has the only main build/repair jig for this aircraft type in the world,
making Vector the leading supplier of deep structural repairs on the Lynx platform.

The five year programme, with an additional two year option,
could see the first aircraft arrive as soon as December 2014.

Vector Aerospace will also support the MRO operations through technical visits to the Lynx bases in France to assist the French Navy’s support organisation for the aircraft.

This work follows a previously contracted deep repair task on a single French Navy Lynx carried out in 2013.
Vector Aerospace completed the programme within the space of only five months,
the aircraft being inducted into the facility in August and returned into service in December, an impressive turnaround time given the extent of the work.