Continued upgrades at the Stawell Airport. Australia.

Grant Harrison from Aero Restorations, with the Chinese Nanchang training aircraft he has commenced modifying for a client.

Restoration projects such as this Ayres agricultural aeroplane have led to Grant Harrison expanding his busiuness operations at Aero Restorations, based at the Stawell Airport.

Stawell - Continued upgrades at the Stawell Airport have led to an increase in growth opportunities for business owner Grant Harrison.

Mr Harrison, who operates his business Aero Restorations from the aerodrome, has been busy restoring damaged aircraft and modifying other aircraft, which has been keeping him on site seven days a week.

However, he's the last to complain about the busy workload and expects business to continue growing once the airport restoration is complete.

"Business is growing out here. AG Airworks are expanding and I'm looking forward to when the development out here is fully complete, as it will enhance opportunities and allow both our businesses to expand even more," he said.

"We should start to see more planes utilising the airport once the development is complete and a lot of larger planes will be able to fly into Stawell."

Mr Harrison has already started increasing his staff, with an employee joining the company from South Australia and moving his family to Stawell. The plan is to increase employment even further in the near future.

Mr Harrison has just completed restoring an Ayres S2R agricultural aeroplane that had crashed on the Cayman Islands. The plane landed awkwardly while being used by the Cayman Islands government for spraying mosquitos. The wings were bent, the legs were torn completely off, the fuselage had to be stripped and repaired and the entire plane repainted.

The plane will now go to Horsham to be used for spreading Urea on crops.

With work on the agricultural plane complete, Mr Harrison has now turned his attention to modifying a 1984 Nanchang Chinese trainer aircraft that was sent to him by the owner from Melbourne. The owner actually purchased the plane in South Australia and tracked Mr Harrison down to complete the modifications, after hearing of his 25 years experience working on radial engines.

The Nanchang aircraft will be stripped completely, be strengthened all over and be given an engine upgrade. It will be made more aerobatic as well.


Source:  http://www.stawelltimes.com.au