Aircraft Maintenance Technology - 27

Eric Gillespie
FLYING COLOURS CORP.

Flying Colours
Singapore facility
handles full cabinetry
refurbishment.
FLYING COLOURS CORP.

Singapore, Flying Colours Corp. PTE is ramping up
expansion preparations to align with the growth of
the Bombardier Business Aircraft Service Centre at
Seletar Airport, which is quadrupling in size," he said.
Gillespie added that Flying Colours can now cover
every area of MRO - modifying interiors, painting
the fuselage and upgrading avionics at the same time.
"Owners like this as it reduces the down time of the
aircraft," said Gillespie.
The expansion has lead to the positive challenge
of needing to recruit more employees, sometimes
even from outside of the tradition aviation-oriented
sectors. "The expansion has meant that we've had to
recruit around 100 new workforce members, which
is always a challenge, but we've approached the challenge in a number of ways. In addition to the traditional recruiting methods, we introduced a series of
recruitment events to attract new and existing talent on site. We have also explored the opportunities
presented. As every project is unique and requires a
mixed set of talents and skilled labor of a variety of
technicians and artisans to perform detailed, handcrafted work, so we'll often look outside the industry
to recruit cabinetry, upholstery, electrical and sheet
metal expertise," Gillespie described.
While Flying Colours has been tackling the positive
challenges of growing their company, the challenges of
the COVID-19 pandemic have also loomed. Gillespie
said, though, that it has given business aviation a chance
to step up and assist the world through the crisis.

"The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that
business aviation can offer
support where commercial
airlines can't. It was the last
aviation sector to stop flying, in fact, it never stopped,
and it is the first back in the
skies highlighting its flexibility and adaptability. It
has played an essential part
in repatriation flights as well as cargo and medevac
journeys which shows that the business aviation
sector offers an invaluable tool for those that need
to move between two points quickly and efficiently.
Now that passengers are needing to travel again, business aviation is providing a relatively safe and known
environment in which to fly," Gillespie explained.
With business aviation stepping up, Gillespie said
Flying Colours is starting to see requests from new
entrants to the market and receiving requests for
modifications to make aircraft multi-purpose.
"In addition, there are a number of emerging markets that are still in the early stages of business aviation and they will all need the support of our type of
service. This all goes alongside our regular business
from our customers, some of which we've worked
with throughout our existence as a full MRO. We are
optimistic about the future for business aviation,"
Gillespie added.

Avionics install by
Flying Colours.
FLYING COLOURS CORP.

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