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AWAS Engineering personnel undertake routine inspections of all leased aircraft every three to nine months, regardless of location around the world, thereby safeguarding AWAS' investments. (left) Its US customers include T WA, which leases McDonnell . Douglas MD-83s for use on its domestic network. (right) The Boeing 737-300 is numerically the most important aircraft the AWAS fleet. Vang (Brazil) has three on lease to serve its South American domestic routes.
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Awas Engineering Safeguards Market Interests
Behind the marketing of Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services (AWAS) works an engineering section ensuring that aircraft are built to customer requirements and carefully maintained to AWAS satisfaction.
AWAS was formed in 1985 specifically as an aircraft leasing company, 50% owned by Newscorp subsidiary 20th Century Fox and 50% owned by TNT (USA) subsidiary Alltransair Nevada. The organisation has quickly built itself up to be the world’s third largest (in terms of airframes) aircraft leasing company, after Ire- land’s Guiness Peat Aviation (GPA) and the Californian based International Lease Finance Company (ILFC). It has on its books a wide variety of commercial aircraft types, though at this stage most of the fleet are yet to be delivered, with just 65-70 aircraft (mostly Boeing 737 series airliners) currently in service with lessees worldwide. AWAS can, however, offer the following types for either immediate or future lease: Airbus A300-600R, A310-300, A320-200; Boeing 737-300/400/500/Executive, 757-200/200F 767-200ER/300ER; BAe 146-200QT; Fokker 50, 100; McDonnell Douglas DC-9, MD-83.
With such a diversified and growing fleet, AWAS needs to not only ensure that aircraft in service are maintained to AWAS standards, but that the aircraft still on the production lines are built to suit market demand and AWAS requirements. Being a leasing company, for instance, AWAS aircraft need to be built with flexibility in mind, so that they can be converted to suit various customers’ requirements; once in lessee service, the aircraft must be maintained so as to retain market appeal once a lease is terminated. With this in mind, AWAS has built up an efficient engineering section, drawing on Ansett Airlines’ ‘expertise’ in the airline market so that it can best satisfy demand and protect its own capital interests.
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