Jet Aviation conducted its first maintenance event on a privately owned Boeing BBJ 777 for an undisclosed Middle Eastern client at its Basel, Switzerland MRO facility last week. The General Dynamics subsidiary accepted the aircraft one week after receiving the request and returned the aircraft on December 24, eight days later.

“This is a significant milestone for the large-aircraft maintenance team,” said Estelle Thorin, the company’s director of maintenance for large aircraft in Basel. “We look forward to demonstrating our high-quality maintenance services to this new customer and all BBJ owners and operators.” The facility is a factory-approved service center for Boeing Business Jets.

“We are delighted to welcome this customer back and look forward to supporting more 777 maintenance and refurbishment inputs in 2017,” said Johannes Turzer, senior vice president and general manager of the facility.