ST Engineering has opened its fourth commercial airframe maintenance, repair and overhaul facility in Singapore at Changi Creek, within Changi Airport. The S$170 million site has four widebody aircraft bays and is expected to increase the company’s Singapore widebody MRO capacity by 40% when fully operational, enabling around 100 additional aircraft to be serviced annually.
Covering approximately 84,000 square metres, the facility is intended to meet rising maintenance demand as airline fleets expand and aircraft remain in service longer. It is designed to provide customers with greater access to maintenance slots across ST Engineering’s commercial aerospace network.
The site incorporates drones for aircraft inspections, autonomous mobile robots for parts movement, automated storage and retrieval systems, electronic documentation, real-time work dashboards and artificial-intelligence-supported defect identification. It will employ more than 500 people when fully ramped up, including licensed aircraft engineers, technicians and planning and production-control specialists.
The first two bays began operating in May, initially handling aircraft from Japan Airlines, followed by Singapore Airlines, Atlas Air and Air India. The remaining bays are scheduled to open progressively, with full operations expected by the end of 2027. The longer-term capacity projection is linked to the planned closure of ST Engineering’s Paya Lebar facility in the 2030s.