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🛩️ Yingling Aviation Acquires Global Engineering & Technology, Inc.
Yingling Aviation (“Yingling”), a leading, full-service provider of maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) and fixed-base operation (FBO) services to business and general aviation aircraft, today announced that it has acquired Global Engineering & Technology, Inc. (“GETI”), an aircraft interiors service provider based in Wichita, Kansas. Founded in 1991, GETI specializes in aircraft interior design and restoration and has fabricated interiors for over 4,500 business aircraft to-date. With this acquisition, Yingling will gain access to GETI’s proven capabilities and track record of excellence across the full spectrum of aircraft interior repair and design services, including cabinet restoration, upholstered panel recovering, new furniture production, and seat recovering and refurbishment.
✈️ AE Industrial Partners Makes a Significant Investment in Yingling Aviation
AE Industrial Partners, LP (“AEI”), a U.S-based private equity firm specializing in aerospace, defense & government services, space, power & utility services, and specialty industrial markets, announced today that it has acquired a majority interest in Yingling Aviation (the “Company”), a leading provider of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) and fixed-base operator (FBO) services to business aviation and government customers throughout the United States. Yingling Aviation Chairman and CEO Lynn Nichols and President Andrew Nichols will remain active leaders and investors in the Company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.