Korean Air has announced it will build a new aircraft maintenance hangar at Incheon International Airport, expected to be operational in late 2029.<\/p>\n
To be constructed on a 69,299 site within the airport\u2019s \u2018High Tech Aviation Complex\u2019, the hangar will be capable of accommodating two widebody aircraft and one narrowbody aircraft simultaneously.<\/p>\n
Supported by a KRW 176 billion joint investment in partnership with the Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC), the \u2018H3 Maintenance Facility Development Project\u2019 will create a next-generation maintenance facility capable of airframe inspections, component checks, and complex heavy maintenance and modification work.<\/p>\n
Keehong Woo, Vice Chairman of Korean Air, said: \u201cA maintenance hangar is not merely a building; it is a cradle of safety and a vital foundation for upholding Korean Air\u2019s top priority of absolute safety<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the earliest design phase, we will ensure this new hangar becomes the safest, most advanced, and most exemplary maintenance base \u2013 a true stronghold of aviation safety.\u201d<\/p>\n
Construction is scheduled to begin in 2027, and it is expected that approximately 300 personnel, including Korean Air<\/a>\u2019s maintenance workforce, will be based at the facility.<\/p>\n In addition to the new hangar, Korean Air\u2019s other projects include building a KRW 578 billion engine maintenance facility on Yeongjong Island in Incheon, and a KRW 1.2 trillion Future Urban Air Mobility (UAM) & Aviation Safety R&D centre in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province.<\/p>\n READ MORE NEWS: Korean Air joins A350F customer list<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Korean Air to build new maintenance hangar at Incheon International Airport<\/a> appeared first on Aviation Business News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Korean Air has announced it will build a new aircraft maintenance hangar at Incheon International Airport, expected to be operational in late 2029. To be constructed on a 69,299 site within the airport\u2019s \u2018High Tech Aviation Complex\u2019, the hangar will be capable of accommodating two widebody aircraft and one narrowbody aircraft simultaneously. Supported by a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}