Maintenance, engineering support, modification, aircraft conversion, and spares provisioning have all been taken on by BAE Systems Regional Aircraft under a new program of customer service and product enhancement recently announced. A division of BAE Systems, BAE Regional Aircraft has for years supported operators of more than 1,100 regional and commuter airplanes through marketing, spares provisioning, and also by way of trading and leasing. Now this support is being extended to full-blown engineering and other work, and not merely for its own customers in the regional airline market but for major suppliers in the aerospace field. A.s examples, Regional Aircraft is involved in detailed design of the composite structure of the Lockheed Martin F-35 joint strike fighter, systems and safety engineering on the Airbus A380 and other Airbus models, cabin interior work on the A400M, and airframe design and systems engineering on the Nimrod MRA4 maritime reconnaissance aircraft. Such third-party engineering work is worth $38 million a year to the company, to which can be added $8 million for modification work performed over the past six months.
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