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CHENGDU, China, Oct. 12, 2023 /Xinhua/--

Recently, the Airbus Aircraft Full-Lifecycle Service Project was completed in

Shuangliu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, China, and is expected to

be put into operation in December. By then, it will provide a one-stop service

to the global market, covering aircraft parking, storage, maintenance,

upgrading, retrofitting, dismantling, and recycling.

This project has a total investment of 6 billion yuan, with a total

construction area of 64,368 square meters. It is planned to build "four centers

and one platform", including two maintenance hangars, two aviation material

warehouses, office buildings, and ancillary buildings, according to Shuangliu

District Government.

The project took 429 days from commencement to completion. Brian Agnew, General

Manager of Airbus (Chengdu) Aircraft Full-Life Cycle Service Co., Ltd., said,

"In just 14 months, Shuangliu District has brought various technical

requirements to this unique factory area. Although Airbus has hundreds of

industrial facilities worldwide, we are deeply impressed by the speed of

construction, the level of industrial design, and the quality of construction

demonstrated by Shuangliu District."

The Airbus Aircraft Full-Lifecycle Service Project is the only aircraft

recycling project operated by an aircraft manufacturer worldwide. As a unique

presence in China and even the world, in the past 429 days, all participating

units in Shuangliu District have concentrated their efforts and resources and

carried out scientific construction, achieving the "acceleration" of project

construction.

"The completion of the advanced factory area marks the beginning of the work of

our operations team," said Brian Agnew. The project will be inspected and

accepted by the Civil Aviation Administration of China and the European Union

Aviation Safety Agency.

As an important "chain leader" in promoting the integration and development of

high-end aviation manufacturing and modern aviation service industries in

Shuangliu, the project will recover aircraft parts exceeding 90% of the

aircraft weight, which can be reused through the global second-hand aviation

material trading market. It is expected to drive the output value to exceed40

billion yuan by 2030. By then, Airbus will truly form a new development pattern

of "assembly in the north and servicing in the south" in China.

"The operation of the project will also mark the birth of a new IP for

Shuangliu's aviation economy." The relevant person in charge of the Shuangliu

Aviation Economic Zone Management Committee introduced that, led by the Airbus

project, Shuangliu will gather more upstream and downstream industries to help

build a strong chain in the aviation industry and leverage the main effect of

the Airbus project chain to continuously extend the industrial service chain.

Focusing on the civil aviation functional platform, Shuangliu District is

accelerating the construction of a civil aviation airborne equipment R&D and

manufacturing center and an international airport technology innovation and

application transformation space. Additionally, Shuangliu has also planned a

120-mu (roughly 80,000-square-meter) civil aviation airborne equipment

industrial park to provide personalized services for enterprises in the

industry.

Source: Shuangliu District Government, Chengdu