"Let's Fly Again" ... Gyeongnam Province Listens to Opinions During Visits to Aerospace Industry Companies

Jongwon Park, Deputy Governor for Economic Affairs of Gyeongnam Province, visited aerospace industry companies in the province to listen to their on-site feedback.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Sang-hyun] On the 6th, Park Jong-won, Deputy Governor for Economy of Gyeongnam Province, visited companies representing the domestic aerospace industry to discuss development strategies for the Gyeongnam aerospace industry and listen to on-site voices.

The site visits were conducted in the order of ANH Structure located in Gyeongnam Innovation City, Jinju, AST in Sacheon, Korea Aviation Services, and Korea Aerospace Industries.

ANH Structure is the first domestic company to acquire an international qualification (Design Organization Approval) from the European Aviation Safety Agency, allowing independent approval in the fields of aircraft structures and cabin interior design changes and repairs.

Its main business areas include aircraft structural design and analysis, aircraft parts testing and evaluation, space launch vehicle propellant tank design, analysis and manufacturing, and aircraft interior parts production.

Last year, it was selected as the lead company for the drone demonstration city construction project announced by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. It is contributing to the practical use of the drone industry by promoting projects such as logistics transportation on National Route 33, flight route demonstration, landslide prediction, and hazardous material monitoring demonstration.

AST is a company specializing in the production of aircraft structures such as the B737 and B747, leading the recovery of the aerospace industry by securing long-term orders based on excellent technology despite difficulties faced by small and medium-sized aerospace companies.

Korea Aviation Services is the only government-designated domestic aviation MRO specialist company, rapidly growing both internally and externally with its own technology and business capabilities through stable quality certification acquisition.

Since its establishment in 2018, as of last year, it has achieved maintenance records of 45 civil aircraft and 132 rotary-wing aircraft. Compared to 2019, civil aircraft maintenance grew 11 times, and rotary-wing aircraft maintenance grew 17 times.

Korea Aerospace Industries is the only comprehensive aerospace system company in Korea and represents the nation’s aerospace industry.

It leads domestic aerospace exports from military complete aircraft to aviation MRO and civil aircraft structural manufacturing, and recently has been expanding its business scope into future new business areas utilizing advanced technologies such as space, urban air mobility, and metaverse simulator development.

Deputy Governor Park said, “We will establish effective corporate support policies that reflect the voices from the field well, so that the aerospace industry can recover early and Gyeongnam’s key industries can make a great leap forward again.”

Gyeongnam Province is investing 45.6 billion KRW in the aerospace sector to promote projects such as the establishment of a smart engineering base for aircraft structures, support for the development of domestic commercial technologies for aviation ICT localization, and industrial infrastructure creation and technology development including aviation parts equipment and process improvement.

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