Cimber Air Maintenance Center (CAMC) has acquired a new hangar at Billund Airport. At 44,500 sq ft, it can accommodate up to five regional aircraft. CAMC plans to use this facility to expand its Bombardier CRJ200 support activity and eventually offer maintenance to third party customers. It already provides line maintenance work for sister company Cimber Air, which operates a fleet of nine CRJ200s. This autumn, for the first time in Billund, CAMC will undertake four-year checks on two of Cimber’s CRJs.

“Performing more heavy maintenance on the type is the goal,” says CAMC Managing Director Gareth Rees, who acknowledges CAMC will work to get the manufacturer’s endorsement and ideally become a Bombardier Centre of Excellence, just as it is a recognised supplier of third party maintenance on the ATR series.

On the ATR, CAMC has a wide range of customers, including Aer Arann and Air Contractors of Ireland, Danish Air Transport and Nordic Aviation Contractors of Denmark, Coast Air of Norway, Air Atlantique, UK, EuroLot and White Eagle Aviation of Poland, Interstate of the Netherlands, West Air of Sweden and BWIA of Trinidad and Tobago.

Early this summer, CAMC won four new contracts, including a pre-sale check on an Alitalia Express ATR42. It also dispatched a team of engineers to Air Botswana in Gabrone to repair an ATR42 which had a complicated landing gear problem. In July it completed a 36,000 check on an ATR42 for Coast Air, plus two ATR72 and one ATR42 C checks for Cimber Air.

Currently CAMC has 15 engineers dedicated to the new Billund facility, which will also handle line support on the ATR. This number will be increased when the CRJ business increases, pledges Rees.

The Billund hangar, acquired from Sterling Airlines, complements CAMC’s three bay maintenance facility at CAMC’s Sonderborg, Denmark headquarters.

CAMC is part of the Cimber Aviation Group which provides a wide range of expertise as a full service support provider and turnkey operator, primarily on the ATR and CRJ aircraft. CAMC is a sister company to Cimber Air Support, Cimber Air Leasing, Cimber Air Data and Cimber Air, one of the world’s oldest airlines.