Pacific Aerospace

The Pacific Aerospace Ltd ( PAL) is an aircraft producer in Hamilton, New Zealand. Together with its predecessors over 600 multi-purpose, training and agricultural aircraft were produced so far.

History

Pacific Aerospace was the merger of two companies, the Air Parts (NZ) Ltd.. and Aero Engine Services Ltd.. formed. The Air Parts Ltd imported since the mid- 1950s Fletcher FD -25 kits and started from 1965 with the production of a significantly modified variant of the PAC Fletcher. The Aero Engine Services Ltd. led by maintenance and not only took over the production of the Victa Airtourer, a light touring aircraft, but developed it in the early 1970s, a military trainer aircraft, the PAC CT / 4 Airtrainer. The two companies joined in 1973 to New Zealand aerospace industry together, in 1982 it was renamed the Pacific Aerospace Corporation.

Shortly after PAC won supply contracts from Boeing and Airbus. PAC continued to have begun as NZAI work on a replacement for Fletcher, the PAC Cresco and developed this as a multi-purpose and Fallschirmspringerabsetzflugzeug. Then a new multi- purpose aircraft, the PAC P -750 XSTOL was developed this first flew in 2001. The company also continued the started 30 years ago production of the CT / 4 in small series.

In September 2005, were ordered by an American company 12 PAC P -750, this leads to a controversy over government support for Pacific Aerospace.

2006 bought by a consortium of aviation professionals, the assets of the company and from Pacific Aerospace Corporation Pacific Aerospace Limited.