TAM Business Aviation (Booth 408), a Brazilian company with more than four decades of experience, is making its first appearance as an exhibitor at NBAA this year.
The São Paulo-based company operates Latin America’s largest MRO facilities for business aviation and has the capability to support more than 100 aircraft at the same time. Its location at JundiaÃ, with 215,000 sq ft, is the largest service center for Cessna aircraft outside the U.S. It includes a large spare-parts inventory, shops for paint, engines, avionics and component repair and other services.
The company holds maintenance approvals not only from Brazil’s civil aviation authority (ANAC), but also from the FAA and Chile’s DGAC. Currently, TAM covers the entire Cessna product line, as well as ANAC approval for the Beechcraft King Air family. Along with its other repair centers in Belo Horizonte and Brasilia, the company will soon open its first MRO in the northeast of the country, in Aracati, which will initially focus on the Cessna’s Citation and Caravans.
TAM also owns FBOs at five Brazilian cities, specifically, São Paulo (Congonhas), Rio de Janeiro (Santos Dumont), Belo Horizonte, Brasilia and Aracati. While it plans to expand its network of bases, the company can provide ground handling at any major airport in the country.
As a charter provider, TAM operates an all-Cessna lineup consisting of the Citation CJ2+, CJ3, CJ4, XLS, Sovereign and X.
