Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Iron Maiden singer’s aircraft maintenance business expands



Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson’s Cardiff Aviation has expanded with the purchase of European Skybus flight training centre in Bournemouth, England.

Insider Media reports the centre — which will remain in Bournemouth for the time being — is an Approved Training Organization and can perform Type Ratings for Boeing 747 aircraft types, approved by the UK/CAA and JAA/EASA authorities.

Its Boeing 737, 747-200/300 Combi, B747-400, BAC 1-11 400/500, and Sikorsky S61N helicopter simulators are used by airlines and aircraft operators worldwide for initial flight crew training as well as MCC, JetOC, IR revalidations, recurrent and refresher training.

"This is an exciting addition to the Cardiff Aviation portfolio of businesses and services," said Mario Fulgoni, joint CEO of Cardiff Aviation Limited. "For the time being, the flight training centre will remain located at Bournemouth International Airport [BOH] on the south coast of the United Kingdom, but we are likely to incorporate it into our base at St Athan, South Wales in due course."

The 13-acre site offers airside access to a private apron, with customer aircraft parking. A team of full-time engineers maintains the simulators.

Cardiff Aviation was launched in mid-2012 by Dickinson, who is himself a 7,000-hour Boeing 757 pilot, and Fulgoni, a seasoned senior aviation manager and former airline captain. It has 132,000 square feet of hangar space capable of accommodating aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 767-300, and parking for up to 20 narrow bodied commercial airliners. St Athan has a 6,000 ft runway.

Dickinson and Iron Maiden are currently playing shows on their Maiden England European summer tour, which will wrap up with two homecoming shows at the O2 Arena in London early next month.

Following the O2, Iron Maiden will take a short break before playing North America, then Latin American stadiums and the Rock In Rio festival in September, and will finish the tour off with a return to the Estadio Nacional in Chile on October 2.



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