The Boeing [NYSE: BA].Company recently delivered a 737-200 aircraft to support the aviation and maintenance curriculums at the Australian College of Kuwait (ACK). The fully functional ground based aircraft, once commissioned, will provide students with hands-on training and real-time learning experience in aviation studies. Boeing is also providing specialized lab and shop equipment which will also be used as training platforms for the aviation maintenance program.
Last July, The Offset Program Department (OPD) of the Ministry of Finance in Kuwait facilitated the formation of the relationship between The Boeing Company and the Kuwait-based AMAS Group of Companies, owners of the ACK, as well as sponsoring the signing of an agreement between the companies. This partnership between the OPD, ACK and, Boeing led to the successful procurement of the aircraft and equipment, under the umbrella of this offset program.
The specialized equipment includes: a 737-200 aircraft which will be used as a training platform for aviation maintenance programs; hydraulic, pneumatic and fuel test stands, vertical and knee milling machines, avionic test benches; electrical and hydraulic carts, lathes; grinders, welders and other general workshop capital equipment.
Boeing’s commitment to Industrial Participation, with a particular emphasis on practical education, is the result of Kuwait’s Ministry of Defense’s purchase of 16 Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopters. Kuwait becomes the seventh international defense force to select the AH-64D and the 11th Apache customer worldwide.
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