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Wednesday, March 27 2019 - 04:31
AsiaNet
MAG Aerospace Australia Acquires Encore Aviation
FAIRFAX, Va., March 27, 2019 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

MAG Aerospace (MAG) has acquired two Australia-based entities; Encore Aviation 
and Encore Helicopter Maintenance ("Encore Aviation"). Encore Aviation is a 
leading maintenance organisation supporting General Aviation in Australia and 
provides home base and deployed engineering and maintenance services to a wide 
variety of fixed and rotary wing aviation organisations including those 
contracted to the National Aerial Firefighting Centre in Melbourne.  MAG 
Australia enhances support to its existing customer-base with this capability 
while growing its commercial potential and supporting its existing manned and 
unmanned ISR capabilities in the Asia-Pacific.

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Encore Aviation has held an Australian Maintenance Certificate of Approval 
since its inception in 2002. Over the last 16 years, it has grown in personnel 
and service offerings to enable mission success with its mobile maintenance 
support servicing capability to maintain any fixed or rotary wing platform in 
the field.  

"Encore's location and existing capabilities gives us the essential tools and 
positioning in a growing Australian market," said MAG CEO, Joe Fluet. "This 
acquisition is critical to MAG's planned growth in Asia Pacific region."

About MAG Aerospace

MAG Aerospace, headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, is a leader in providing and 
enabling real-time situational awareness to help its customers make the world 
smaller and safer. MAG delivers full spectrum ISR Services (operations, 
training, and technical services) and other specialty aviation to federal, 
international, civilian, and commercial customers around the world. MAG's team 
of 1,000+ professionals operate 200+ manned and unmanned special mission 
aircraft, delivering - 100,000 flight hours annually on six continents in 
support of its customers' missions. For more information on MAG Aerospace, 
please visit www.magaero.com.
 
SOURCE MAG Aerospace

CONTACT:  Troy Skalski, (703) 376-8993, troy.skalski@magaero.com