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Aviabaltika Expands its Helicopter Services
New projects have been launched over the past few years by the Aviabaltika Holding group of East European companies. This involves delivery of a full range of services for supply, overhaul and maintenance and helicopter engineering; training of flight and technical personnel; establishment of service centers for helicopter maintenance and overhaul at the customer's site; and supply of spare parts and equipment.
Principal partners comprise Aviabaltika Aviation Ltd, Vytautas Lapenas Flight School, and Transaviabaltika Aviation Ltd, in Lithuania; the Russian joint-stock St Petersburg Aviation Repair Company (SPARC); and Aviabaltika de Mexico. Aviabaltika also acts as a representative of many aeronautical engineering manufacturers, with its own advanced technology MRO factory and other service center facilities.
Aviabaltika Holding now also operates a modern training center in St Petersburg, and a flight school in Panevezys, Lithuania, for tuition of technical personnel in aeronautical engineering maintenance and overhaul, and aircrew training and qualification upgrades. In St Petersburg the training center located at the JCS SPARC major aircraft repair enterprise covers the full range of MRO and operation of Mil Mi-8/17 transport helicopters. Key equipment includes a full Mi-8MTV/Mi-17 flight simulator, plus computer-based function systems and navigation trainers.
In the past two years, more than 1,000 students and 500 aircrew from Russia and another 10 countries worldwide have completed their training there. JCS SPARC's facilities were expanded in 2002 with the opening of new paint shops, and establishment, with Kazan Helicopters and Mil Helicopter Plant, of turnkey service centers at customers' home bases. A new Aviabaltika office opened in Nepal, supplementing those in India, Mexico, Sri Lanka and Moscow.
—John Fricker
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