9 Aircraft for Engineering Schools

DELFT, The Netherlands, September 4 /PRNewswire/ -- AELS is offering 9 complete Fokker F27 aircraft, currently parked at Cologne Airport in Germany, to engineering schools all over Europe. With this project AELS supports the aviation industry in training the engineers that are desperately needed. Giving these aircraft a second life in this new function is a very green and sustainable solution.

Derk-Jan van Heerden, general manager of AELS: "We are offering these aircraft for a value lower than the recycling value of the aircraft. I would also like to thank WDL, the last owner of the aircraft, for making this possible. With this project we do our part in making sure that AELS and our MRO colleagues have enough well trained engineers in the future."

In cooperation with the schools, AELS is also looking for options to make the cost of disassembly, transport and assembly as low as possible. One of the options is to execute parts of the project with the students of the school under the professional supervision of an AELS engineer.

If not all aircraft can be used by engineering schools AELS will find other options for re-using the aircraft, such as a museum or a training aircraft for firemen. The remaining aircraft will be dismantled and recycled. In all cases AELS will focus on the greenest solution when recycling these aircraft.

Aircraft End-of-Life Solutions (AELS) is a young company based in the Netherlands that develops sustainable end-of-life strategies and executes the resulting solution for aircraft owners all over the world. AELS offers a Total End-of-Life Solution that consists of three elements:

    1) Decision support for aircraft owners during fleet renewal programs
    2) Aircraft disassembly and dismantling services, both on our base
       facility at Maastricht Aachen Airport and on-site for aircraft that
       can no longer fly
    3) Component management, all activities required to make re-use of
       components in the aviation industry possible such as marketing, sales
       andlogistic support.


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