US maintenance provider West Star Aviation has showcased its Chattanooga facility's new paint and maintenance hangars during an open house day for over 300 customers, vendors and employees.

With the completion of these new facilities West Star now occupies over 175,000 sq ft of space at the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport. “The open house was a great way to showcase our new facilities and to demonstrate to our customers in this area of the country that we are continuing with our heritage of quality, world-class service,” says CEO Jim Rankin.

The recently completed expansion includes a new 65,000 sq ft maintenance facility that includes 40,000 sq ft of hangar space and over 25,000 sq ft of office and support space. It also includes a 45,000 sq ft state-of-the-art paint facility that can accommodate the needs of most business aircraft flying today, including Gulfstream G550, Embraer Lineage and Embraer Legacy 600 types.

West Star has already input its first customer paint and maintenance project there, which was a 3C inspection, service bulletins, an avionics installation and full paint job on a Falcon 2000 that should be completed before Q1 of 2019.

“We are pleased to have our first customer in service. The new expansion to our Chattanooga facility provides our team with the capacity to ensure we are working efficiently and meeting deadlines so as to get our customers back in the air as quickly as possible,” says general manager Steve Goede.