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The exterior of Velocity Maintenance Solutions’ new hangar at Wilmington Airport in Delaware.
LAS VEGAS—Velocity Maintenance Solutions is moving into a new facility across the ramp from its current one at Wilmington Airport in Delaware that will grow its footprint and allow for increased maintenance capabilities.
Hangar space will increase to 40,000 ft.2 from 20,000 ft.2, and the overall footprint will span 75,000 ft.2 compared to 35,000 ft.2 for the original.
Velocity is completing the existing aircraft maintenance projects underway at the original facility “so we won’t have to move any current work across” and is starting to induct new projects at the expanded space this month, says President Michael Baker. As jobs wrap up, the tooling will move over. He expects the MRO to be fully operational at the new site by Nov. 1.
He says Velocity has been in discussions with the Delaware River and Bay Authority for the facility for two years and received about $3 million in facility upgrades from them. The facility expansion was in the works before Bombardier acquired Velocity Maintenance in February for an undisclosed sum. Velocity is now a Bombardier subsidiary.
The new facility includes a substantial amount of backshop space that gives it the opportunity to set up a composite repair space and clean room, a dedicated NDT lab for the five nondestructive methods it uses.
“We started as an AOG company,” and moved into scheduled maintenance, avionics installations, pre-buy inspections, surface inspections and painting, Baker says. “So we have a strong base of AOG clients who know our work” and have expanded their workscopes with Velocity as the company has expanded services, he says.
It services a variety of Bombardier, Dassault Aviation, Embraer, Gulfstream and Textron aircraft.
It also operates 14 mobile repair trucks based at Wilmington Airport, Teterboro Airport, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Scottsdale Airport, Cincinnati Municipal Airport-Lunken Field and Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
While continuing to add aftermarket capabilities is a real possibility, for the next year Baker says the company wants to focus on getting the new facility up to speed. In addition, it plans to expand its workforce from 25 technicians to about 150 overall staff in the next year. “Delaware has a strong base of experienced technicians,” he says.
Bombardier says Velocity was a “bolt-on company in terms of they have great processes.” In addition, “it’s really a marriage of companies that are kind of moving in the same direction. Velocity has a great track record with regard to speed and AOG responsiveness with our customers, and it was easy to integrate and let them keep running their operation because it is successful—and now backing the next phase of growth.”
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