Khanty-Mansiysk – UTair Aviation’s (UTair Aviation, JSC) subsidiary UTair-Technic completed registration procedures at the beginning of 2005.

The new company is expected to start operations by the beginning of the summer-traffic season.

The company includes an aircraft maintenance complex in Tyumen, a line station at Surgut airport and a line station at Vnukovo, currently under construction.

UTair-Technic will provide technical maintenance for UTair Aviation’s fleet at Roshchino, Surgut and Vnukovo airports, as well as rendering services for other companies.

The new enterprise will become one of the largest in Russia, and together with Komiinteravia and Aircraft repair Facility No. 26, will create a unified system for maintaining aircraft airworthiness.

At present, UTair, together with Lufthansa Consulting, is taking a range of measures to obtain recognition of its production processes in the aircraft technical maintenance sphere as complying with the requirements of the EASA-1445 European standard.