Jet Aviation Commits to Sustainability in Singapore
Bizav service’s provider Jet Aviation highlights in Singapore collaborations and its own efforts to “contribute to sustainable aviation.”
Jet Aviation is here showcasing its extensive interior capabilities.

With global focus on the environmental impacts of flight operations growing, business aviation services provider Jet Aviation (Chalet CD47) is affirming at the Singapore Airshow its commitment to industry-wide sustainability goals. “We are committed to investing in solutions that provide business aviation owners and operators the choice to contribute to sustainable aviation,” the company told AIN on the eve of the gathering at Changi Exhibition Center.


Underscoring that dedication, Jet Aviation is highlighting in Singapore collaborations with several partners “to offer and test viable options that promote sustainable aviation.”


Yet sustainability, like charity, begins at home, and the Swiss company is also highlighting infrastructure upgrades at its facilities worldwide incorporating the latest sustainability design principles. Last month the company opened its new FBO terminal and hangar facility in Van Nuys, California, in the U.S.—one of the world’s busiest business aviation hubs—built to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) silver specifications. This includes the use of regional materials, energy-efficient lighting and low-flow plumbing fixtures, and diverting the majority of construction waste from landfills. The facility is also the first supplier at Van Nuys to offer sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and the first Jet Aviation site to offer SAF. (Other features of the facility include the new hangar’s 30-ft. clearance, accommodating newer large aircraft, including the Gulfstream G700 and the Global 7500.)


Sustainability features were also incorporated in last year’s $25 million upgrade of its Teterboro Airport facility in the U.S., another bizav capital, and in the new widebody hangar at its Basel completion center, which opened the prior year.


Jet Aviation has facilities in 13 locations in the U.S. and Caribbean, and construction and renovation are underway or pending at six of them.


But Asia Pacific is another key market for Jet Aviation, and its flagship MRO facility is at Singapore’s Seletar Aerospace Park at Seletar Airport, where it has been providing maintenance and AOG services for almost 20 years. Jet Aviation also provides FBO services at both Seletar and Changi airports. The Seletar facility holds EASA and FAA repair station approvals and is a factory authorized service center and warranty repair facility for Gulfstream aircraft, and an approved Boeing BBJ line and base maintenance station. Interior refurbishment work is another facility specialty, with state-of-the-art upholstery and woodworking capabilities, and paint spray booths.


At its Hong Kong location, Jet Aviation offers base maintenance and AOG support; scheduled and unscheduled line maintenance; airframe and minor engine repairs; avionics modifications, inspections and defect rectifications; and Gulfstream Factory Authorized Warranty Service for G450/G550 /G650 aircraft, and Dassault Falcon Authorized Warranty Line Service for Falcon 900EX and 7X series jets.


Jet Aviation’s commitment to Asia Pacific is underscored by last year’s purchase of Hawker Pacific, which added 19 locations—including 7 FBOs, 14 MRO facilities and more than 400,000 sq ft of hangar space across the region and the Middle East—to its global network. The Hawker Pacific facility at Shanghai’s Hongqiao Airport continues to host ABACE, Asia Pacific’s largest annual business aviation event.


At Changi this week, Jet Aviation is noting Hawker Pacific’s Cairns, Australia MRO has recently received FAA authorization to install its aural alerting equipment on Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC)-powered aircraft. The new Auxiliary Aural Alerter System alerts pilots with an aural warning as they approach an exceedance, and the Cairns repair organization is the only one in the world outside P&WC’s facilities approved to support P&WC’s diagnostics products.


In addition to FBO and MRO services, Jet Aviation is known for its luxurious custom VIP aircraft interior completions, and the company is also putting a focus on these bespoke services during the event.


“Asia continues to be an important market for both narrow- and widebody completions,” said Matt Woollaston, v-p completion sales, looking ahead to the week. “Over the past year, we have redelivered several completion projects into the region, and we are currently working on a number of other projects from the Asia market.”


In its home European theater of operations, Jet Aviation is highlighting the recent IS-BAH Stage 1 Registration approval for its Amsterdam and Rotterdam FBOs in The Netherlands; both are expected to achieve IS-BAH Stage 2 Registration by year’s end.


Jet Aviation is owned by publicly traded General Dynamics, which also owns Gulfstream Aerospace.