FAI Airservice has acquired 50 per cent of M.C.M. Maintenance-Centre-Munich GmbH, a JAR 145 maintenance centre certified for base and line maintenance on King Airs, Citations, Challengers, Learjets, Rockwell Commanders and Dornier 328s.

The acquisition was announced exactly eight months after FAI stepped into the Munich charter market by opening a branch office at Munich’s GAT.

Simultaneously, M.C.M.’s ceo Alexander Vit signed a service partner contract with LBAS, the German Lufthansa / Bombardier factory service centre which allows M.C.M. to perform maintenance on Learjets and Challengers on behalf of LBAS.

FAI, which is already running an own JAR 45 repair shop at its Nuremberg base, has revealed plans for reorganisation of its maintenance activities before the end of the year in what could possibly end up as a merger of the two JAR 145 shops and expansion of the Munich facilities into a full service FBO.