Daher is expanding its customer support for TBM operators in France with the opening of a base outside Paris. Located in Hangar 111/112 at Toussus-le-Noble aerodrome southwest of Paris, the customer support facility will serve the Île-de-France geographic region surrounding Paris. The region, Daher noted, includes a technology cluster zone referred to as “Europe’s Silicon Valley.”

Including workshop and office space, the site is a subsidiary of the primary TBM Service Center at Daher’s Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrenees Airport facility. Daher has obtained both European EASA and U.S. FAA Part 145 approval for the latest base, which will provide maintenance service, including scheduled inspections for TBM aircraft covered by Daher’s maintenance contracts.

"With more than a dozen civilian TBMs based in the Paris region—plus the French Ministry of Defense’s TBM fleet at the nearby Villacoublay Air Base—it was essential to offer our customers local maintenance services,” said Nicolas Chabbert, senior v-p of the Daher airplane business unit. “Additionally, Toussus-le-Noble’s close proximity to corporate research sites, company administrative centers, and technology businesses makes it ideal in serving the needs of TBM owners and operators.”

Hugo Delpi, manager of the TBM Service Center at Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrenees Airport, will further manage the Toussus-le-Noble operation.