‘Aero Maintenance Facility will Effectively Service Airlines in W’Africa’

Chinedu Eze

The Director General, Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Rev. Stephen Wilfred Arthur, said Aero Contractors’ Aircraft Maintenance Organisation (AMO) will effectively service all commercial aircraft operating in West and Central Africa approved for maintenance in the facility.

Arthur stated this at the weekend after the facility tour of the maintenance facility located at the Aero head office, General Aviation Terminal (GAT), the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

He said, “This is unique by all standards. And I least expected to see what we have all witnessed today, especially from this part of the continent.”

He linked the cost of aircraft maintenance to the cost of flight ticket, saying that ferrying the aircraft out of the West African region to the United States or Europe increases the cost of maintenance which is eventually passed to the passenger.

In his opening remarks, the Managing Director/CEO of Aero Contractors Limited, Captain Ado Sanusi, who happily welcomed the Director General, said the airline was established in 1959 and it started in oil and gas shuttle services and later progressed into schedule flight services and aircraft maintenance. 

“We operated helicopters and then later we started operating fixed wings and we became very, very dominant in oil and gas and then we ventured into airline business. We are the first again to perform C-check on Boeing 737 Classic in West and Central Africa and since then we have been operating our maintenance facility, providing services to airlines within West Africa and beyond,” Captain Sanusi said.