Gulfstream Aerospace has appointed Jet Aviation Management AG as an authorized service center and repair facility for the Gulfstream 100 and Gulfstream 200. The companies' relationship goes back more than two decades, and Jet Aviation has been an authorized service center for other Gulfstream business jets since 1996.

At a ceremony here Monday Gulfstream divisional vp international sales Tarek Ragheb and Jet Aviation vp and general manager Gunther Huf and vp strategic planning and business development Theo Staub signed an agreement that will also see Jet Aviation setting up a European spares center in Dusseldorf, Germany. Initial spares holding for the G100 and G200 will be in the order of $1 million.

Jet Aviation's facilities in Hannover, Germany and Singapore have been appointed as service centers for both of these most recent additions to the Gulfstream range, while the company's facility here in Geneva will service and support the G200. The Singapore operation is the designated Asia/Pacific Rim spares center for the airplanes.

All Jet Aviation services centers working on Gulfstreams will be required to hold JAA and FAA Repair Station approvals as a condition of the agreement.