French aerospace group Daher has been awarded a contract by Dassault Aviation to construct and operate a new third-party logistics center at the Aerolians Paris business park near Charles de Gaulle Airport. The contract builds on an industrial and supply-chain partnership that has covered spare parts provision for Dassault Falcons for almost 20 years. Daher has already established a similar spares distribution operation near Le Bourget Airport, the French capital’s main center for business aviation.
The new center will be highly automated and designed by Daher engineers “to handle the flow of spare parts and aircraft repairs, with the Falcon fleet’s long-term outlook in mind,” said Daher. “It will feature innovative storage facilities and a coordinated management system,” added the company, which confirmed that current operations would be transferred to the new center “by the end of 2018.”
At the new CDG center, Dassault Falcon spare-parts teams will work alongside Daher and the forwarding agent to ensure efficient parts availability, especially for AOG assistance, “with a two-hour turnaround, 24/7.”
“As an aircraft manufacturer with family shareholders, Daher shares the same values as Dassault Aviation," said Daher senior v-p for aerospace and defense business unit Nicolas Orance. Under this agreement, Daher will be supporting Dassault "at each step of the value chain, from supply chain engineering to achieving optimal response times for Dassault Falcon customers.”