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Maintenance of F-16 moves to the Netherlands
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- Written by Dennis
November 7th 2011. The Elbit Systems of America company has opened up a workshop for maintenance of F-16 parts in The Netherlands.
The facility will temporarily be located at the Logistics Centre Woensdrecht (LCW) at Rhenen and will move at the end of 2012 to Air Base Woensdrecht.
In the near future, Elbit expects to move multiple innovative maintenance activities from the USA to the facilities at LCW. The new location has the advantage for the Royal Netherlands Airforce that it presents a lowering of the transport costs and the maintenance cycle, resulting in a better availability for the F-16's.
Regional support center
With Elbit a second company moves to the LCW (Terma, a European defence company with HQ in Denmark was the first in May 2010). The Dutch ministry of defence aims to create a regional support center for maintenance, repair and modification, leading to a 'Maintenance Valley' for aviation-related companies in the region.
Elbit has the intention to make use of the special test equipment from the LCW, giving them the ability to repair avionics components for almost any type of F-16 in and outside Europe.