Dassault Aviation has acquired the European maintenance activities of TAG Aviation Group. The facilities at Farnborough, Le Bourget, Geneva, Sion and Cascais airports will enter Dassault's service centre network but operate under the TAG MRO Services brand. The announcement comes just a month after the OEM's purchase of ExecuJet's global maintenance activities.

“The acquisition of the maintenance activities of TAG Aviation, a major MRO provider, will allow Dassault Aviation to reinforce its European service centre network,” says chairman and CEO Eric Trappier. “With TAG Maintenance Services, we intend to develop further a network of excellence and to support TAG different aircraft clients with the same commitment to service quality, while expanding the share of Falcon maintenance activities controlled by the Dassault Group.”

“We have been working hard over the past twenty years to build up a high quality maintenance organisation, specialising in the Dassault and Bombardier product lines,” adds TAG Group president Mansour Ojjeh, the majority shareholder of TAG Aviation. “During that time we have built a strong relationship with Dassault Aviation based upon mutual trust and respect. Given the many challenges faced by independent MROs in the current industry environment, we are pleased to sell this segment of TAG Aviation to a respected OEM who values its employees and shares TAG’s high business standards.”