AFRIZAL Aviation Knowledge " The Spirit ": 2017

Monday, December 25, 2017

Garuda Maintenance Facility AeroAsia ( Garuda Indonesia Group )

GMF AeroAsia (PT Garuda Maintenance Facility AeroAsia Tbk IDX: GMFI) is an Indonesian company that specialises in aircraft maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO).The company serves the Asia-Pacific region and employs more than 4,000 people, and is based in Jakarta, Indonesia, it has many offices around the world. It services airplanes of many types and is one of the largest and leading aircraft maintenance facilities in Asia.

Facilities :

All of its facilities are at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. They comprise 480,000 m² of built-up structures, including three hangars, a spares warehouse, workshops, utility buildings, ground support equipment building, chemical stores, engine test cell and management offices. In addition, GMF AeroAsia has an apron capable of handling up to 50 aircraft, taxiways, a run-up bay and a waste treatment area taking up a 1,150,000 m² area.

Hangar 1 was built in 1991 designed for Boeing 747s, has two full docks and is 22,000 m². It can perform Section 41 Modification, replace and strengthen body skin, frame stringer, intercostal and several selected structure in Nose Section 41 area. Hangar 2 is 23,000 m² and has 5 aircraft bays. It can perform minor A and B checks. It can hold up to one narrow body and one wide body jet. Hangar 3 is 23,000 m². It normally holds up to 7 narrow body aircraft, but can be reconfigured to hold up to one wide body and 6 narrow body. It has 7 bays with 4 full docks. It has 6 roof-mounted cranes and has one bay designed for McDonnell Douglas MD-11's, McDonnell Douglas DC-10's, and Airbus A330's aircraft. On September 28, 2015 Hangar 4 is begin operated with a capacity of 16 narrow-body aircraft on an 67,022 square-meter of land, making it the largest in the world, is equipped with a purpose-built docking platform for heavy maintenance of narrow body aircraft.

AeroAsia also provides certain assets of OEMs, located in a customs bonded area at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. Customers can get anything from this storage warehouse with a computerized system. It uses this warehouse to provide asset management, inventory assistance, management services and trading aircraft parts.