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GA Telesis MRO Services Sign Long–Term Repair and Overhaul License Agreement and Parts Supply Agreement with Honeywell

GA Telesis MRO Services Sign Long–Term Repair and Overhaul License Agreement and Parts Supply Agreement with Honeywell

January 11, 2018 – Miami, Florida – GA Telesis MRO Services announced that the company has signed a long-term Repair and Overhaul License Agreement and Parts Supply Agreement with Honeywell. With today’s announcement, GA Telesis will be providing repairs of over 175 base part number and line replacement unit (LRU) repair items and sourcing over 1,200 material supply line items from Honeywell Aerospace. Products include electro-mechanical, pneumatic and mechanical LRU’s covering a variety of Airbus,… Read more

GA Telesis Announces Rebranding of its Component & Composite Repair Business Units under a single Group Named GA Telesis MRO Services

GA Telesis Announces Rebranding of its Component & Composite Repair Business Units under a single Group Named GA Telesis MRO Services

January 10, 2018 – Miami & Ft. Lauderdale, Florida – GA Telesis, LLC has consolidated the branding of its aircraft component and composite repair business units under a single group named MRO Services. Under the leadership of Pastor Lopez, President of MRO Services, the strategy will be to ensure that the MRO business units can react quicker to customer demands and market shifts as well as ensuring consistency in the customer experience. The brand marketing… Read more

GA Telesis Launches Leveraged Finance Group with the Appointments of David Lloyd and Nolan Heske

GA Telesis Launches Leveraged Finance Group with the Appointments of David Lloyd and Nolan Heske

December 11, 2017– Fort Lauderdale, Florida – GA Telesis, LLC (“GAT”) announces the launch of its Leveraged Finance Group (“LFG”) to provide secured aircraft financing for lessors, investors, and airlines.  GAT has appointed David Lloyd and Nolan Heske as Managing Directors of LFG to pursue the development, execution and growth of this strategy. The LFG management team has over 35 years of combined experience in the aircraft and transportation finance sector.  Prior to joining GAT,… Read more

GA Telesis Announces the Purchase and Leaseback of  Six Embraer E170 Aircraft with Republic Airline

GA Telesis Announces the Purchase and Leaseback of Six Embraer E170 Aircraft with Republic Airline

October 19, 2017– Fort Lauderdale, Florida – GA Telesis, LLC. (“GAT”) announces the completion of a purchase and leaseback transaction of six Embraer E170 aircraft with Republic Airline (“Republic”). GAT completed the acquisition of six Embraer E170 aircraft from Republic Airline earlier this month.  Simultaneous with the purchase, the aircraft were placed on long term leases with Republic.  The aircraft will be operated by Republic under a long term fixed fee capacity purchase agreement.  This… Read more

GA Telesis Appoints Kevin Ford, Director of Business Development for Asia-Pacific Region

GA Telesis Appoints Kevin Ford, Director of Business Development for Asia-Pacific Region

October 16, 2017– Fort Lauderdale, Florida – GA Telesis, LLC. (“GAT”) announces the appointment of Kevin Ford as Director of Business Development for the Asia-Pacific Region. Kevin brings more than 30 years of experience in fleet management, managerial and technical operations, aviation consulting, as well as, senior roles in service quality and team development. Mr. Ford joins GA Telesis from Air New Zealand, having served as Aircraft Leasing and Trading Manager since 2006. Prior to… Read more

GA Telesis and Czech Airlines Technics Sign Letter of Intent to Form Partnership

GA Telesis and Czech Airlines Technics Sign Letter of Intent to Form Partnership

October 4, 2017 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Prague, Czech Republic  GA Telesis, LLC (“GA Telesis”) and Czech Airlines Technics (“CSAT”) today announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) to form an integrated supply chain partnership to support GA Telesis’ new ATR fleet iGEAR support service. With today’s announcement, GA Telesis will begin providing ATR fleet operators with an integrated flight hour support program with CSAT providing repair and consignment pooling in… Read more

GA Telesis Appoints Dave Dicken as Vice President of Airframe Solutions Group

GA Telesis Appoints Dave Dicken as Vice President of Airframe Solutions Group

Fort Lauderdale, Florida – August 15, 2017 – GA Telesis, LLC (“GAT”) announces the appointment of Dave Dicken as Vice President of its Airframe Solutions Group (“ASG”).  ASG is the 2nd largest operating unit within the company’s Component Solutions Group (“CSG”) and has oversight of all global airframe component offerings.  Dave, who previously served as GAT’s Director of Strategic Sourcing, will now be responsible for supporting the airframe component sales and operations teams in the Americas,… Read more

GA Telesis Announces Launch of $500 Million GAIN 2 Fund

GA Telesis Announces Launch of $500 Million GAIN 2 Fund

GA Telesis Announces Launch of $500 Million GAIN 2 Fund August 8, 2017 – Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and New York, New York – GA Telesis, LLC (“GA Telesis”) and Wafra Capital Partners Inc. (“WCP Inc.”) jointly announced today that GA Telesis has raised a new $500 million investment vehicle from institutional and private clients advised by WCP Inc. to establish a second aviation investment vehicle focused on aircraft and engine investment opportunities.  This capital raise… Read more

GA Telesis Appoints Pastor Lopez as President of its Component and Composite Repair Divisions

GA Telesis Appoints Pastor Lopez as President of its Component and Composite Repair Divisions

August 3, 2017 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Leading aviation company, GA Telesis announced the appointment of Pastor Lopez as the President of its Component Repair Group SE (CRGSE) systems MRO and its Composite Repair Group (CRG) aerostructures MRO divisions.  Pastor will grow the division revenues over the next five years by making significant technology enhancements, additions to the business units’ repair capabilities, building new greenfield MRO businesses and via acquisitions. “Pastor is a seasoned… Read more

GA Telesis Announces Another $1 Billion of Funding Capacity to Support its Expanding Inventory Leasing Business

GA Telesis Announces Another $1 Billion of Funding Capacity to Support its Expanding Inventory Leasing Business

August 2, 2017 – Ft. Lauderdale, Florida – GA Telesis announced today the launch of a specialty finance unit, Structured Credit Products (SCP) to focus on structured financial solutions for airline, MRO, and OEM customers.  The initial focus strategy will be inventory leasing.  Going forward SCP will explore other aviation finance products including originated secured lending, trading in public and private debt, and investments in other aviation related financial instruments.   SCP will be led by… Read more