Morocco Partners with Belgian Firm to Build Military Aircraft Maintenance Facility

Morocco has signed a partnership with the Belgian aerospace group Orizio for the installation of a maintenance center for military aircraft at the Benslimane airport, reports the daily Al Ahdath Al Maghribia, specifying that this partnership will result in the creation of a Moroccan joint venture called "Maintenance Aero Maroc".

The center, which will be installed on 15,000 m² in this airport, will be dedicated to the maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrading of military aircraft and helicopters. It will generate at least 300 jobs, adds the same source, citing Stéphane Burton, the CEO of the Belgian aerospace group Orizio.

According to the latter, the center should be operational in 2024 and will have an international vocation. In other words, it will take care of the maintenance of Morocco’s military aircraft, but also those of other African, European and Middle Eastern countries.

A new plant of the group, with an area of 16,000 m², will open at the end of November in Nouaceur, announced the CEO of Orizio, also underlining the order of 25 F-16 aircraft by Morocco, which already has 23. The Orizio group had participated in the modernization of the Mirage F1 and Alphajet of the Royal Armed Forces, respectively in 2006 and 2010.