Press Release

Issued by Rusada.

June 26, 2018

Rusada's leading aviation maintenance technology, Envision nGen has been selected by STAECO (Rizhao) Aircraft Engineering Co. in China as the backbone of the MRO's maintenance information system (MIS) within its Rizhao operation.

STAECO (Rizhao), which is the business jet maintenance part of the STAECO group, provides airframe maintenance services for narrow-body and regional jets, fleet engineering and maintenance service for business jets, extensive cabin reconfiguration, system upgrades, transit checks, component overhaul, parts fabrication and passenger-to-freighter conversion.

The brand new Rizhao MRO facility at Rizhao International Airport, Shandong Province consists of two hangars and four maintenance bays and includes a fully automatic robotic aircraft painting capability, the first in China.

Richard Lin, STAECO (Rizhao)'s CEO said: “Our mission is to provide first class heavy maintenance services to local and international customers operating Bombardier, Gulfstream, Embraer aircraft as well as the COMAC ARJ21.”

Richard Lin continued: “Implementing Envision nGen will help us become digitally enabled and be well positioned to expand our thirrd party heavy maintenance MRO business to efficiently serve the rapidly expanding regional and corporate aircraft fleets in China.”

Julian Stourton, Rusada's CEO said “STAECO (Rizhao)'s decision reaffirms our position as a leading maintenance technology provider within the APAC region. This can be attributed to Envision nGen's feature rich and intuitive interface which also supports English and Chinese character sets as well as a fully resourced Asia based implementation teams.”

Envision nGen will initially be deployed at the Rizhao facility to allow STAECO (Rizhao) to evaluate the technology as a MRO system throughout other new facilities.