AAR’s Rockford Experience Will Shape Future Expansion

Aftermarket services specialist AAR Corp. is using lessons learned from a challenging but ultimately beneficial expansion to help avoid similar start-up headaches, its top executive shared.AAR opened its Rockford, Illinois, hangar in 2016 with a plan to attract widebody airframe maintenance but without any long-term contracts to help fill the facility. It survived on smaller deals and overflow work with existing customers. Customer stability finally arrived in April 2021 via a narrowbody…
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