Duncan Aviation Expands Paint Capacity With New Hangar in Battle Creek, Michigan

September 27, 2006

A Falcon 2000 (right) awaits delivery at Duncan Aviation's newest paint hanger in Battle Creek, MI. A Gulfstream IV (left) is undergoing the first stages of prep work.

BATTLE CREEK, MICH. — Duncan Aviation recently christened its newest paint hangar with the completion of a Falcon 2000. The new hangar, located at Duncan Aviation's full-service facility in Battle Creek, Michigan, is 19,200 square feet and will add 40 paint slots to the facility's annual paint capacity, making Duncan Aviation-BTL one of the busiest paint providers in the aircraft refurbishment industry.

"The addition of this hangar provides a significant increase in capacity for our Battle Creek facility. When combined with our multi-shift staffing, this increase will allow us to offer the highest quality paint refurbishment in the industry, with our industry-leading turntimes, to even more customers," says Bill Prochazka, Duncan Aviation's Executive Vice President and General Manager of Michigan Operations.

Duncan Aviation built the hangar with the latest air flow technology, including automatic monitoring and alarms, to provide the best paint environment possible for aircraft. To increase capacity and efficiency, the hangar was designed to accommodate multiple aircraft at once, utilizing a two-zone airflow system. With this design, Duncan Aviation paint teams can perform stripping, sanding, painting and detail work on multiple aircraft simultaneously. The hangar can handle aircraft as large as a G550 or Global Express. The paint hangar is just one part of a 125,000-square-foot, $20 million expansion currently being completed at Duncan Aviation's Battle Creek facility. The entire expansion and renovation is scheduled to be complete in the spring of 2007.

Duncan Aviation—Battle Creek is an aircraft service provider with a 325,000-square-foot facility and 570 employees supporting the aviation needs of business jet operators worldwide. These services include airframe and engine service, avionics installations, interior and paint completions/modifications, avionics/instrument and accessory/propeller repair/overhaul and parts support.

Duncan Aviation currently employs nearly 2,000 aviation experts worldwide. The company is headquartered in Lincoln, NE, and operates a major service centers in Lincoln, Neb. and Battle Creek, Mich. Other Duncan Aviation locations include 20 satellite avionics facilities located throughout the United States and Lincoln-based Parts Support Services, a division that sells and consigns general aviation parts to aircraft operators and service organizations worldwide.

( Return to top )