Once again, the annual ABACE event gives business aviation services group Hawker Pacific the chance to showcase its presence here in China. The group’s Shanghai Hawker Pacific Business Aviation Service Centre (SHPBASC) is hosting the show and is one of seven FBOs that it has across the Asia Pacific region. The other bases are in Singapore, Australia (Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns and Perth) and Malaysia, and it also has a presence in the Middle East.

Over the past year, the Australian facilities have recorded a 10 percent rise in traffic, Singapore has seen a 12 percent uptick, and the FBO in Shanghai has increased its traffic by 18 percent. Launched in 2012, the company’s maintenance facility at Singapore’s Seletar Aerospace Park is expected to show a year-on-year revenue increase of more than 30 percent over the last 12 months.

SHPBASC opened back in April 2010 and is the result of a joint venture between Hawker Pacific and Shanghai’s airport authority, which is the majority owner. The 4,000-sq-m (43,000-sq-ft) hangar facility here at Hongqiao International Airport serves as ABACE’s main exhibit hall, and the 4,800-sq-m (52,000-sq-ft) exhibitor pavilion and aircraft static display are outside on its expansiveramp.

Effectively, SHPBASC is China’s first privately-operated, full-service FBO. Its lounge and private terminal rival the best in the world, and onsite customs and immigration/quarantine (CIQ) clearance speeds internationaltransit.

Since 2014, SHPBASC has been an authorized Cessna Service Center. It also holds the same position for Dassault’s Falcon family, as well as with Bombardier and Textron’s Hawker Beechcraft portfolio of jets. In addition to China, the company holds maintenance approvals from Hong Kong, Macau, the U.S., Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.

Hawker Pacific provides a wide range of aviation sales, charter, airframe and engine maintenance, special-mission modifications and many other product support services to both civil and militarycustomers. As well as its maintenance and ground-handling activities, Hawker Pacific is an authorized sales agent for several manufacturers, including Beechcraft and Cessna, which both now come under the Textron umbrella. It also is active in the pre-owned aircraft sales sector.