Honeywell Aerospace announced a new long-term service-based agreement with the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF). The company said it would simplify the contractual process for services such as supplying parts, performing upgrades and integrating products. Honeywell has avionics, engines and other mechanical technologies on more than 100 RNLAF aircraft, including the F-16 Fighting Falcon, C-130 Hercules, AH-64 Apache, and CH-47 Chinook. 

“With this agreement, Honeywell and the RNLAF can collaborate on maintenance services faster, enabling us to work together to get aircraft airborne again as quickly as possible,” said Steve Lien, v-p defense and space international, Honeywell Aerospace. The company has been supporting the RNLAF since 1995, when the service received the first of its 17 Chinooks, which include Honeywell avionics and T55 engines. 

“Honeywell and the RNLAF have worked on numerous fleet-upgrade and extension projects during the last 20 years,” noted Commodore Eric Schevenhoven, the commander of the RNLAF Logistics Center at Woensdrecht. He agreed that the new agreement “enables both parties to work more closely and even more efficiently in the long term.”

Honeywell said the new deal includes provision for a future performance-based logistics contract, in which the company would commit to ensuring that the necessary number of aircraft are available at all times. As a supplier of systems and parts to virtually every commercial aircraft, Honeywell has signed plenty of agreements similar to the new RNLAF pact, with civilian operators.