ST Aerospace - ST Aerospace redelivers aboriginal adapted 757-200 to RNZAF

ST Aerospace - Global specialist in aerospace engineering and aerodynamics abutment solutionsStore this angel in big sizeSingapore, 4 August 2008 – Singapore Technologies Aerospace Ltd (ST Aerospace) today acclaimed the redelivery of the aboriginal of two 757-200 aircraft to the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF). In November 2005, ST Aerospace appear it won a US$38m (about S$52m) arrangement from the New Zealand Ministry of Defence that complex design, development and about-face to multirole configurations, including a PASSENGER TO FREIGHTER CONVERSION, an AVIONICS advancement programme and added MODIFICATIONS to enhance the adequacy of the two RNZAF 757-200 aircraft in aggressive and limited operating environments. ST Aerospace is the aerospace arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering).

Conversion plan on the aircraft was agitated out at ST Aerospace’s US facility, ST Mobile Aerospace Engineering (MAE), area MAE adapted the aircraft from an all commuter adjustment to a multirole agreement that allows the accustomed of passenger, freight, alloyed passenger-freight, Very-Important-Persons (VIP) and Aero-Medical Evacuation. Aircraft NZ7571 was inducted at MAE in Mobile on 16 April 2007 for the modification. With abstracts accountant from Boeing, the engineering architecture and development about-face was undertaken at ST Aerospace to acquiesce for the multiple-role configuration. The ancestor aircraft fabricated its aboriginal flight out of the Brookley Field in Mobile on 22 June 2008, commutual a four-hour analysis flight to analysis the basal aircraft systems and activate its flight analysis programme. Since then, the aircraft has aswell completed flight tests on the added modifications including berth babble altitude and aggressive aeronautics and advice systems. The flight analysis programme was auspiciously completed on 23 July 2008, afterwards a absolute of 5 sorties, 19 hours and 36 account of flight time. Work on the additional aircraft is in advance and it is accepted to be completed end 2008.

“The Ministry of Defence and Royal New Zealand Air Force are captivated to access the Boeing 757 aback from ST Aerospace afterwards a cogent advancement and AIRCRAFT MODIFICATION project. The ST Aerospace aggregation has faced abounding challenges affair this passenger-to-combi about-face programme, and we accept no agnosticism that this artefact will enhance the RNZAF’s cardinal airlift capabilities.” ~ Air Vice-Marshal Graham LINTOTT, Chief of Royal New Zealand Air Force

“The RNZAF programme is a circuitous and absorbing one, and today’s redelivery is alone accessible through the teamwork from RNZAF, Boeing and our staff. The accomplishments on this aircraft to accredit it to be acclimated flexibly to accommodated the altered needs of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is a absorption of the circuitous operational requirements and the engineering efforts put in. We are admiring to bear a above artefact that would abutment RNZAF’s operational needs for the next brace of decades.” ~ TAY Kok Khiang, President, ST Aerospace

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Audrey Tan
Head, Corporate Communications
ST Aerospace
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Email: audreytan@stengg.com

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