Fairfax, Virginia-headquartered MAG Aerospace has acquired two Australia-based entities: Encore Aviation and Encore Helicopter Maintenance.

Encore Aviation is a maintenance organisation supporting general aviation in Australia. It provides home base and deployed engineering and maintenance services to a wide variety of fixed and rotary wing aviation organisations including those contracted to the National Aerial Firefighting Centre in Melbourne. MAG Australia will enhance its support to its existing customer-base with this capability while growing its commercial potential and supporting its existing manned and unmanned ISR capabilities in the Asia Pacific region.

Encore Aviation has held an Australian maintenance certificate of approval since its inception in 2002. Over the last 16 years, it has grown in personnel and service offerings, including mobile maintenance support for any fixed or rotary wing platform in the field.

“Encore's location and existing capabilities give us the essential tools and positioning in a growing Australian market,” says MAG CEO Joe Fluet. “This acquisition is critical to our planned growth in Asia Pacific region.”