Boeing Awards Contract to Lufthansa Technik to
Support New Zealand’s P-8A Poseidon Fleet
- Total Component Support for four 737-based
Maritime Patrol Aircraft
Dec 9, 2022
BERLIN, Dec. 12, 2022 –
Boeing [NYSE: BA] has awarded Lufthansa Technik a contract for sustainment
services within its support of the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s (RNZAF) future
fleet of four P-8A aircraft that will leverage commercial capabilities to
improve readiness rates.
The contract is for provision of
Lufthansa Technik’s Total Component Support (TCS), a comprehensive component
services program for the 737 covering more than four hundred commercial common
parts included in the configuration of the P-8A, a military derivative of the
popular airliner. Leveraging the 737 commercial market in support of P-8A
international customers will allow smaller fleets easier access to necessary
global supply chain inventory from the more than four thousand 737 aircraft
operating today.
“Our collaboration with Lufthansa
Technik is a strong example of how industry can work together to solve customer
challenges and maintain high readiness rates,” said Torbjorn (Turbo) Sjogren,
Boeing vice president and general manager, Government Services. “Our goal is to
expand service offerings from a strategic German industry partner for
additional P-8A customers to benefit.”
The TCS program provided by Lufthansa
Technik allows the RNZAF to reduce investment in commercial common parts and
improve aircraft readiness through access to the German company’s maintenance,
repair and overhaul (MRO) global supply chain.
Boeing and Lufthansa Technik signed a
strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in 2021 to support Germany’s P-8A
Poseidon fleet. The MOU expanded to a three-party agreement with ESG
Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH in 2022.
“Lufthansa Technik is a
longstanding partner with a long history of supporting Boeing aircraft around
the world,” said Michael Haidinger, president of Boeing in Germany. “This new
contract is a clear demonstration of our commitment to German industry and how
we partner across the Atlantic and globally, shaping meaningful partnerships
that ensure continued economic and industrial growth in Germany.”
Under Boeing’s Performance-Based
Logistics (PBL) program, Lufthansa Technik also provides hardware support to
the Italian fleet of Boeing KC-767A tankers and has facilitated outstanding
aircraft availability for the Italian Air Force.
“As a renowned expert for Special
Mission aircraft and a leading maintenance, repair and overhaul provider with
decades of experience in servicing commercial Boeing 737s, we are delighted to
soon start servicing New Zealand’s Poseidon fleet. The strong partnership with
Boeing enables us to offer the best possible service level over the entire life
cycle of the aircraft,” said Michael von Puttkamer, vice president special
aircraft services at Lufthansa Technik. “We are very much looking forward to
further cooperation with our partners in Germany and beyond.”
In July 2018, the government of New
Zealand announced the purchase of four P-8A Poseidon aircraft to replace their
aging fleet of P-3K2 maritime patrol aircraft. The first P-8A to New Zealand
was delivered December 2022, with three remaining aircraft to be delivered in
2023.
Deployed around the world with 155
aircraft delivered or in service, and more than 450,000 collective, mishap free
flight hours, the P-8A is vital for global anti-submarine warfare,
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and search-and-rescue operations.
About Boeing in Germany
Boeing has been a committed partner to
the German aerospace industry for many decades. The company employs
approximately 1 000 direct employees at its facilities in Germany and supports
many thousands of other highly skilled jobs throughout the country with an
established network of partners and suppliers. Boeing Germany actively
contributes to the research and development of digital and sustainable
technologies for the future of aviation. More about Boeing in Germany:
www.Boeing.de or @BoeingDACH on Twitter.
About Lufthansa Technik
With some 35 subsidiaries and
affiliates, the Lufthansa Technik Group is one of the leading providers of
technical aircraft services in the world. Certified internationally as
maintenance, production and design organization, the company has a workforce of
more than 20,000 employees. Lufthansa Technik’s portfolio covers the entire
range of services for commercial and VIP/special mission aircraft, engines,
components and landing gear in the areas of digital fleet support, maintenance,
repair, overhaul, modification, completion and conversion as well as the
manufacture of innovative cabin products.
Fra Aviation24.be:
Boeing awards contract to Lufthansa Technik to support New Zealand’s
P-8A Poseidon fleet
By
12 December
2022
Total Component Support for four 737-based
maritime patrol aircraft
Boeing has awarded
Lufthansa Technik a contract for sustainment services within its support of the
Royal New Zealand Air Force’s (RNZAF) future fleet of four P-8A aircraft that
will leverage commercial capabilities to improve readiness rates.
The contract is for
the provision of Lufthansa Technik’s Total Component Support (TCS), a
comprehensive component services program for the 737 covering more than four
hundred commercial common parts included in the configuration of the P-8A, a
military derivative of the popular airliner. Leveraging the 737 commercial
market in support of P-8A international customers will allow smaller fleets
easier access to necessary global supply chain inventory from the more than
four thousand 737 aircraft operating today.
“Our collaboration with Lufthansa
Technik is a strong example of how industry can work together to solve customer
challenges and maintain high readiness rates,” said Torbjorn
(Turbo) Sjogren, Boeing vice president and general manager, Government
Services. “Our
goal is to expand service offerings from a strategic German industry partner
for additional P-8A customers to benefit.”
The TCS programme
provided by Lufthansa Technik allows the RNZAF to reduce investment in
commercial common parts and improve aircraft readiness through access to the
German company’s maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) global supply chain.
Boeing and Lufthansa
Technik signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in 2021 to support
Germany’s P-8A Poseidon fleet. The MOU expanded to a three-party agreement with
ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH in 2022.
“Lufthansa Technik is a longstanding
partner with a long history of supporting Boeing aircraft around the world,”
said Michael Haidinger, president of Boeing in Germany. “This new contract is a clear
demonstration of our commitment to German industry and how we partner across
the Atlantic and globally, shaping meaningful partnerships that ensure
continued economic and industrial growth in Germany.”
Under Boeing’s
Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) programme, Lufthansa Technik also provides
hardware support to the Italian fleet of Boeing KC-767A tankers and has
facilitated outstanding aircraft availability for the Italian Air Force.
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