Switzerland’s MecanAir SA is now an authorised service centre for both the Kodiak and TBM turboprop-powered aircraft, French OEM Daher TBM has announced.
Based at Ecuvillens Airport (LSGE) near Fribourg, MecanAir is an EASA Part 145 certificated maintenance and repair station. It has been operating as an authorised Kodiak service centre, and the expansion of its responsibilities to the TBM underscores Daher’s integration of these two aircraft in the company’s single-engine turboprop product line.
MecanAir specialises in the maintenance and repair of aircraft weighing under 12,500 lb., as well as the overhaul of turboprop engines and accessories. AS well as its Ecuvillens Airport location, the company has maintenance workshops at the Swiss airports of Yverdon-les-Bains and Grenchen.
Under the expanded agreement with Daher’s Aircraft Division, MecanAir is now capable of handling all scheduled and non-scheduled maintenance services for Kodiak and TBM aircraft, and airworthiness-related control/management under the authorisation as a Continuous Airworthiness Monitoring Organization (CAMO).
“This is another important step in enhancing our global Network after Daher’s acquisition of Kodiak in 2019,” said Nicolas Chabbert, senior vice president of Daher’s Aircraft Division, and the CEO of Kodiak Aircraft.
“With MecanAir’s dual Kodiak and TBM authorisation today – to be followed by other service centres in the future – customers will benefit from more comprehensive coverage and the increased synergy of our Network worldwide.”
MecanAir founding-CEO Michel Devaud is a well-known professional who developed a range of auto racing engines in the Can-Am and F5000 series for teams that included McLaren and Lola during the 1970s.
As an active private pilot, Devaud has built his own aircraft, and he set up an aviation engine overhaul operation to work on aero engines. In 1976, Devaud created MecanAir as an aircraft maintenance and engine overhaul facility specialised in light aircraft – as well as for such legendary aircraft as the Tiger Moth, Bucker, Spitfire, AT-6 and Wildcat.
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