Jet chief hails ‘extraordinary’ effort on giant Basle hangar

Jet Aviation has opened its new completions-dedicated widebody hangar at its Basel facility last Friday.
The new hangar has some 9,600m2 (103,333ft2) of space which allows it to house an Airbus A380 and a Boeing 747-8 at the same time, with room to spare for a few smaller aircraft. Jet Aviation it is one of only two such hangars in Europe, and comes at a time when the completions industry has a high demand for widebody capacity.
The hangar was built in just seven-months. “To complete such an undertaking in record time took extraordinary cooperation between suppliers, constructors and the airport,” said Jet Aviation chief executive Peter Edwards at the inauguration ceremony.
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