GA-Europe takes over RUAG Aerospace Services

General Atomics Europe GmbH at Dresden are taking over RUAG Aerospace Services at Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, this Swiss company having assumed ownership of Fairchild Dornier in 2002. RUAG restarted production of the Dornier 228 light transport aircraft, albeit importing ‘green’ aircraft from HAL at Kanpur, then completing and customising the aircraft for export. RUAG were also responsible for the after sale support and maintenance of all Dornier 228s excluding India.