Press Release

Issued by Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation.

November 13, 2011

The Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. service center in Appleton, Wis., recently earned an approved maintenance organization designation from Saudi Arabia. With this authorization, aircraft registered under Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) can undergo maintenance, repairs, alterations and inspections at the 275,000-square-foot facility.

Gulfstream Appleton joins the Gulfstream Savannah Service Center in the United States and Gulfstream Luton Service Center in England as GACA-authorized facilities.

"Saudi Arabia, and the Middle East in general, is a strong market for Gulfstream," said Mark Burns, president, Gulfstream Product Support. "Having more and more of our service centers that can handle the maintenance needs of those operators is important. Appleton has already delivered an aircraft to Saudi operators since earning this designation."

The aircraft covered by the Gulfstream Appleton certificate include all Gulfstream aircraft, the Bombardier Challenger 600 series and 5000/Global Express aircraft, the Dassault Falcon 50, 900 and 2000 series models, and the Hawker Beechcraft 800 series, 850XP and 700 models.

Gulfstream Appleton is a certified U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and European Aviation Safety Agency Part 145 repair station, which means the site's 700-plus employees can work on aircraft registered in the U.S. and European Union countries. In 2010, Appleton's workforce serviced 314 aircraft.

Gulfstream Appleton also has maintenance approvals from the civil aviation authorities in Bermuda and Canada.