SAO PAULO,
Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TAM's (NYSE: TAM,
BOVESPA: TAMM4) Technological Center, the MRO business unit (Maintenance,
Repair and Overhaul), has just been certified by the American aviation
authority, the Federal Aviation Administration (
FAA), to be able to perform
maintenance operations on aircraft registered in
the United States. With this
seal of quality issued by the U.S. aviation authority, we amplify our array of
MRO services offered and become the only Brazilian aviation company certified
by the
FAA, by the EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) and by the ANAC
(Agencia Nacional de Aviacao Civil - Brazilian Civil Aviation Agency).
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"Now we are certified by the world's foremost aeronautical authorities.
This is a recognition of the quality of our service. With these approvals, we
can strengthen our service offering MRO to third parties and meet the major
airlines in the market," states Ruy Amparo, Vice President of MRO.
The FAR 145 certification obtained authorizes us to perform all the major
programmed maintenance operations (C and D checks), in addition to the
revision of different aeronautic components. The process of obtaining this
certification took 14 months and was preceded by extensive audits, in which
all the technical and quality procedures of our Technological Center were
thoroughly checked over and verified by the U.S. aviation authority.
Expansion of services
This last August, we were certified by the DGAC (Direccion General de
Aeronautica Civil), the organization from the Chilean government, to service
Airbus A318 aircraft and their components for aircraft registered in Chile.
The certification was achieved after we were approved by the ANAC to perform
maintenance on the Airbus A318 aircraft. It is the unit's first approval for
an aircraft model that is not a part of our fleet. We are also certified in
Chile to perform maintenance operations on A319, A320 and A321 aircraft.
Our Technological Center has also been approved by the ANAC and by the
EASA to carry out all the major programmed maintenance operations on Airbus
A318/A319/A320/A321 and A330 aircraft, both in our fleet and on third party
aircraft, in addition to Fokker-100 aircraft. In addition, we are certified
for the maintenance of components of the Boeing aircraft that are being
incorporated into our fleet and we are in the final process of certification
for Boeing 767 aircraft.
Since January of 2007, we have had the IOSA (IATA Operational Safety
Audit) certification, the most complete and accepted international
acknowledgement in operational safety. The IOSA audit involves more than 950
requirements in 8 operational areas of a single airline company, including
engineering and maintenance of aircraft, and others.
Our Technological Center is located in the city of Sao Carlos, in the
interior of Sao Paulo State, and covers an area of 4.6 million square meters.
In addition to maintenance hangars, the facility houses workshops for
examining more than 3,000 aeronautic components.
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