UK-based Wessex Aerospace has purchased the entire inventory of the former Islander factory in Manila. During the 1970s and 1980s, Philippine Aerospace Development Corporation produced a large number of BN2 Islander aircraft at the location.

Wessex Aerospace reports that the purchase from the Philippines, along with other recent purchases of stock from former factory distributors, underlines its commitment to the total support of the Islander aircraft into the next decade.

The inventory is currently being inspected and will be added to the company’s stock holding over the course of the next few months. Included in this stock are multiple quantities of major assemblies, tails, noses, much of the flying control surfaces, landing gears, windows, doors, structural repair items, detail parts and hundreds of thousands of everyday usage parts.

Wessex Aerospace is offering all the material below the manufacturer’s list price in a bid, it says, to bring fair prices to the worldwide Islander operator market.