MAEL reaches key milestone at its new Birmingham Airport facility

Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL), the award-winning independent aircraft maintenance provider and a division of The Monarch Group, has reached another key milestone in the construction of its new 110,000 sq. ft state-of-the-art maintenance facility, at Birmingham Airport in the UK. Since the ground-breaking ceremony in January, work has continued at a pace on the hangar build, with the largest and heaviest component of the entire build – the ‘valley truss’ beam – measuring 4.2m deep and spanning 66m and weighing approximately 80 tonnes, now being installed. Commenting on this milestone, Mick Adams, Managing Director of MAEL, said: “The development of