Asian Aerospace AAAI Involvement

To demonstrate the ability of Australia’s aerospace industry to provide a complete package, the stand will promote the image of ‘corporate Australia’ while enabling individual participants to be readily identified. This approach proved successful at the 1987 Paris Air Show. Austrade will also contribute to the direct costs of mounting the display in Singapore on a dollar-for-dollar basis with the 12 participants and will provide support services for them, including design and construction of the Australian stand.

Considerable interest in the exhibition has been created by the success of Australian participation in Asian Aerospace ’86 and the natural focus of the increasingly important civil and military aerospace markets in Southeast and North Asia to the Australian industry. These markets have been identified by the AAAI as offering significant export potential for Australia. Three and a half years ago Australia’s aerospace companies regrouped under the banner of the newly-formed Association of Australian Aerospace Industries (AAAI) and immediately began a concerted attack on export markets.

Highly capable and outward-looking, the Australian Aerospace industry is located in the centre of the Asia/Pacific region making it extremely well placed to develop successful aerospace partnerships. According to industry estimates, the Australian industry’s management and technological base could sustain exports of more than $A1,000 million by the early 1990s.

Expanding opportunities combined with Australia’s strong capability and rapidly improving performance have encouraged major local companies such as Hawker de Havilland to participate in risk sharing in multi-nation aerospace development projects.

High level system engineering and support capabilities in companies such as British Aerospace Australia, Trippett Allan and Ansett Technologies, provide a level of teaming that only a few years ago was not available in Australian projects. The Australian industry indeed offers a wide range of expertise in manufacturing, systems, space technology and support services.

Combined with Australia’s acknowledged record in innovative research and design, and the relatively low cost of Australian engineering and support services, these capabilities are opening new opportunities for international collaboration.

Apart from the Department of Defence and the Defence Forces, Australia’s aerospace industry employs around 14,500 people in about 80 companies. More than half the employment and sales come from airframe and engine design, manufacture and maintenance, encompassing fixed wing aircraft, helicopters and remotely controlled vehicles. Australia also has strong capabilities in airframe assembly, maintenance, modification and testing and in the manufacture of a range of specialised components.

Recent upgrading of Australia’s high technology manufacturing facilities means that national industry capability now includes processes such as the high precision, numerically controlled machining of aluminium, steel and titanium. High technology capabilities now also include facilities for profiling complex aluminium and non-metallic honeycomb core surfaces, chemical milling aluminium alloys, plating with cadmium, copper, zinc, chromium, silver, tin, hard nickel and rhodium and phosphating, anodising and di-chromating magnesium alloys. Work with advanced materials involves the manufacture of composite and bonded components in Kevlar, carbon fibre, glass fibre and carbon fibre cloth.

Aircraft and engine repair and maintenance is carried out by Australia’s airlines, as well as the defence forces and a range of small aviation and supply companies throughout the country. The major airlines, for example, operate modern engineering maintenance and test facilities able to handle a diverse range of engine and aircraft types. They also train pilots and other crew for international civil and defence customers.

Qantas Airways Ltd currently earns more than $44 million each year from its aeronautical engineering and maintenance services. In 1986, Qantas also won a contract potentially worth more than $A20 million a year to provide engineering maintenance support for the Chinese national carrier (CAAC) Boeing fleet of 747, 767 and 707 aircraft and more recently has won a similar support contract from NASA.

Australia has also been a pioneer in salvaging rather than replacing high value engine components and has developed world class expertise in defect investigation and salvage scheme development. The numerous airline engineering maintenance centres operate specialist workshops using a range of processes necessary to maintain modern high-technology power plants. These processes include plasma spray, metal spray, heat treatment, electro-plating, static and dynamic balancing, nondestructive testing and CNC-equipped machining.

Australia also has a history of developing cost efficient aviation infrastructure, especially over large distances. Australian firms have made full use of overseas associates to complement their own skills and experience and have displayed a willingness to engage in technology transfer to customer countries. As a result, Australia has established a strong reputation for design studies and turnkey projects throughout Asia and the Pacific region. Experience includes airways systems, control towers, navigational aids, radar systems, and aeronautical and meteorological data systems.

Australian companies for instance provided complete turnkey design, supply, delivery and commissioning of the Rangoon Air Traffic Control System in Burma. Australia also provided air traffic control systems for the Republic of Nauru and for Miri International Airport in Sarawak, Malaysia.

One Australian company designed integrated air traffic control facilities for Tribhuvan Airport in Nepal and airport lighting, air traffic control and radar facilities for the Malaysian Government. In Sabah, East Malaysia, the same firm was responsible for implementing the Kota Kinabalu area and approach control centre including procedural, radar and aeronautical fixed telecommunication network (AFTN) systems and related communication and support facilities.

Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd (AWA), an Australian supplier of avionics, airways navigation aids and turnkey systems and equipment for satellite and telecommunications successfully marketed its products throughout the world. Visual Omni Range (VOR), Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) and special VOR test instruments have been particularly successful internationally.

Australian specialists in airport architecture developed a new aircraft maintenance base for Bangladesh Biman in Dhaka, Bangladesh. One of these firms, Stafford Moor and Farrington Pty Ltd, acted as consultants to Philippine Airlines, and also developed the master plan for Manila’s aircraft maintenance base.

Ansett Technologies

27 Parer Rd, Airport West, Vic 3042, Australia. Phone: (03) 339 5851. Telex: AA31157.

The diverse skills of Ansett Technologies include aerospace systems engineering, service and repair facilities for precision equipment and manufacturing capability for specialised industrial instrumentation.

Fifty years of development has produced a multi-faceted, high technology organisation that is now a leading contractor to government for both civil and military projects.

Company experience also includes software development and installation project management for air traffic control radar. The design and manufacture of automatic test equipment for aviation instruments, microprocessor-based ground support equipment, avionics test systems and special purpose antennas is also undertaken.

Ansett Technologies now has subsidiary companies in the USA, Indonesia and in New Zealand where the firm works in close cooperation with the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

British Aerospace Australia Ltd

PO Box 310, Civic Square, Canberra ACT 2608, Australia.

Phone: (062) 47 0161. Telex: AA61793. Fax: (062) 47 2701.

Winner of the 1986 Australian Defence Industry Quality and Achievement Award, BAe Australia specialises in electronic systems engineering in avionics, C3 electronics warfare and space related activities.

It has nearly 40 years experience in its sphere of operation.

BAe designs, develops, qualifies, manufactures and supports military electronic systems and equipment, and space electronic hardware and equipment for satellite ground stations.

British Aerospace Australia management applies documented quality control policies and procedures and stresses supplier responsibility for providing quality products and services which conform to contract requirements.

Along with great emphasis on quality control, the company exercises great care with all details of programme management, business development, engineering production and integrated logistic support.

Cooperative national and international research into satellite systems has led to recent contracts for space vehicle and ground segment electronics.

Hawker de Havilland Limited

PO Box 30, Bankstown NSW 2200, Australia. Phone: (02) 772 8111. Telex: AA20719. Fax: (02) 774 4917.

Australia’s largest aerospace company, Hawker de Havilland Limited, is promoting Australian expertise in aerospace manufacture, support and technology.

Hawker de Havilland is also currently exploring opportunities to participate with other companies in the early stages of development of new generation military or civil aircraft.

Well known in industry circles throughout the world, the company celebrated its 60th birthday last year.

In 1985, it acquired the Australian Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation which brought together the two largest private enterprise aerospace industries in Australia. The combined experience in aircraft and engine production has allowed the company to further expand its business base.

The company also holds the contract for assembly, test and systems integration into the Sikorsky Black Hawk and Seahawk helicopters.

Hawker Pacific Pty Ltd

PO Box 172, Yagoona NSW 2199, Australia. Phone: (02) 708 8555. Telex: AA121168. Fax: (02) 708 1480.

Hawker Pacific provides international high technology manufacturers with access to aerospace, industrial and electronic markets in Australia, Asian countries including China and the Pacific region. The firm represents more than 70 well known international companies.

It has established one of the largest spares and aircraft servicing operations in the Asia/Pacific region with a network of facilities and branches in Australia, Asia and the USA.

Repairs and overhaul of airline and helicopter landing gears, hydraulic systems and sub-assemblies for both fixed and rotary wing aircraft are now available.

Major sales assisted in the Asia/Pacific region cover military helicopters, airline and commuter aircraft, together with successful distributorships for executive jet, turboprop and piston aircraft.

Hawker Pacific’s distributorship for the Allison 250 series gas turbine covers more than 1800 installed engines powering civil and military helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft throughout a region extending as far as Korea/Japan, India, the Philippines and Australia. The highly regarded support services provided include engine overhaul.

Qantas Airways Limited

Maintenance Centre, Mascot NSW 2020, Australia. Phone: (02) 236 3636. Telex: AA201133. Fax: (02) 669 8526.

Qantas, Australia’s global carrier, also provides technical training and operational maintenance for a growing number of world airlines.

Its wide-ranging expertise involves both civil and military aircraft keyed to activities related to the acquisition, servicing, maintenance, overhaul, repair and modification of aircraft engines.

Almost since its inception in 1920 Qantas has provided training in the engineering areas of the airline industry.

Carriers currently serviced by Australia’s international airline include Cathay Pacific, Saudia, Air New Zealand, Malaysian Airline Systems, Varig, Indonesia’s Garuda and CAAC the national carrier of the People’s Republic of China.

In some instances the rights to service the aircraft of many countries were actually awarded in competition with the aircraft engine manufacturers themselves, such as Rolls Royce and Pratt & Whitney.

Ansett Engineering Resources

Ansett Engineering Base, Operations Road, Melbourne Airport 3045, Australia. Phone: (03) 668 1211. Telex: AA33191 Sita:Melgdan. Fax: (03) 330 1977.

Ansett offers aircraft maintenance and overhaul support to airlines operating Boeing 727, 737, 767; Fokker F27, F28, F50; BAe 146, and Airbus A320 aircraft.

The Ansett hangar maintenance facility at Melbourne has the capacity to accommodate aircraft up to Boeing 747 with comprehensive docking facilities for aircraft up to Boeing 767.

The engine overhaul facility provides complete overhaul capability for a wide range of engines, auxiliary power units, transmissions and gearboxes, cabin superchargers and pneumatic air turbine starters. Comprehensive test equipment includes modern fuel flow test rigs.

Their engine test facilities provide a quick change system for installing engines in the cell, a computer based control system, data acquisition and data reduction system permits a high throughput of a variety of engines resulting in lower engine test costs. Their state of the art equipment also enables them to overhaul a wide variety of electronic and electrical systems, a variety of instruments and pneumatic and hydraulic components.

They can also offer expertise and resources. to outside companies and/or aircraft in the fields of technical service, engineering support facilities, electronic overhaul facilities, and electroplating as well as having a non destructive test facility, a technical training centre and a flight simulation centre.

Aymever Pty Ltd

PO Box 968, Armidale NSW 2350, Australia. Phone: (067) 72 3389. Fax: (067) 72 9418.

Aymever was established in 1987 by Jim Belshaw and Denise North to provide specialised consultancy, information and training services to the electronics, aerospace and information industries, to those supplying products to and buying from those industries and to government agencies developing policy towards and managing programmes affecting the sector.

The company depends primarily on the knowledge and experience of its directors. Jim Belshaw was formerly a senior official with the Australian Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce, responsible particularly for the development of policy towards and programmes affecting the EAII sector.

Denise North was previously private secretary to the Minister for Industry, Technology and Commerce, advising Senator Button on policy and programme issues including the aerospace industry, technology, defence industry and offsets.

Aymever’s consultancy division offers advice on industry trends, conditions and capabilities, policy and government relations issues and on organisational change; and undertakes the evaluation of policy and programme effectiveness; the preparation of submissions, market economic and commercial assessments and business plans. The company is also able to play a catalytic and facilitating role between entities with reciprocal needs.

Aymever’s remaining divisions provide information services, specialist publishing and education and training services relating to the electronics, aerospace and information industries.