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R The contruction phase lasted a little over 12 months. In February, it expanded its capabilities
by opening a new engine repair shop in Atlanta, Georgia, in the US, to support Pratt & Whitney GTF (geared turbofan) engines, the PW1100G and PW1500G, that respectively power Delta’s fleet of Airbus A321neo and A220 airliners. The new facility covers 155,000ft2
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includes 60 engine bays plus room for expansion. The shop will service GTF engines alongside customer engines maintained through Delta TechOps MRO business. It’s estimated the facility will service approximately 300 jet engines per year. Key areas of the shop include engine disassembly and assembly, module disassembly and assembly, work in progress (WIP), cleaning, shipping and receiving, and an administrative area. The new facility will be home to several hundred staff members including more
than 100 mechanics along with others working in engineering and supply chain. Crane and hoist specialists Engineered
Systems Inc. (ESI) provided the repair shop’s overhead cranes. The company had a prior working
relationship with Delta TechOps, which helped secure the contract for the engine repair shop, with ESI having supplied cranes at an existing building. “My relationship goes back about 12 or
13 years with them,” says Keith Lewis, West Georgia territory manager at ESI. He says ESI got involved with the project in the design phase around three years ago, and was awarded the project in late 2021. The construction phase leading up to the building’s ribbon-cutting ceremony on 7 February lasted “a little bit over a year”. What is now a repair shop had previously been a cargo building, which, says Lewis,
meant there was no structures to support the cranes. After holes were cut in the floor for all
the footings, ESI’s scope started with the support steel. “I have 340 tons of just support steel – columns and header beams. My runways: I have about 3,900 linear feet of crane runway rails,” explains Lewis. Thirty-three cranes have been installed,
each with two hoist and trolley units, for a total of 66 hoist and trolley units. The cranes come in various capacities – the lighter cranes, 15 of them, have a 2.0- ton capacity, and there are 16 6.0-ton cranes as well as two 8.0-ton cranes. ESI purchased the components from its vendor, in this case Acco, and then built the cranes. “They’re cross-mounted on the girders, which allows them to lift the engines and to
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