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FEATURE

MRO in

Helicopters

ny mention of aviation MRO nies engaged in offshore drilling and the
sets most thinking of MRO like, they are used for search and rescue
for commercial, business, operations as in Coast Guard services,
and military aircraft, but an for fire-fighting purposes, and military
Aimport segment of flying helicopters used by defence forces,
machines is the ubiquitous Helicopter amongst others. MRO provides skew
that plays multiple roles that benefit their services depending on the type of
societies and the military. Stringent helicopter variant-be they light which is
maintenance, repair, and overhaul <3.1 Tons, or medium weighing 3.1–9.0
(MRO) services include care for the Ton, and heavy that are >9.0 Tons. installations for both commercial and
airframe, the engines, various parts, military helicopters in the world. Dur-
and routine checks or line maintenance. Growth Markets for Helicopter MRO ing the forecast period, North America
Device servicing is the maintenance of According to marketresearchfuture. dominated the helicopter MRO services
several small and large parts in helicop- com, the global helicopter MRO services
ters. Since spare parts and subsystems market size is pro-
for helicopters are widely available, the jected to grow from
costs involved in the repair of com- USD 7.48 billion in 2021
ponents are less than other types of to USD 10.23 billion in 2028
maintenance. at a CAGR of 4.57% during
However, business expansion of next- the 2021-2028 period.
generation helicopters will have to be
in tandem with the alignments made The geographical
with regulator laid-down mandates. overview of the global
market
Popular Types of Helicopter Use North America
MRO services cover both commercial North America
helicopters for tourism and transporta- has the largest
tion, copters for business use by compa- concentration of MRO

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