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Yulista Management Services Opens New Aviation Hangar

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Yulista Management Services Opens New Aviation Hangar

Facility expands current aircraft modification capabilities.

Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, 18 August 2006 - Yulista Management Services opened a new, 14,000 square foot aviation hangar at Madison County Executive Airport (MCEA) on August 18. The facility will support joint venture work with Science and Engineering Services, Inc (SES). In 2002, the two companies formed Joint Venture Yulista and SESI (JVYS) to provide engineering and technical support to the Prototype Integration Facility, located at Redstone Arsenal. Over the past four years, the PIF/JVYS team has become a major player in modification of Army aircraft. The new hangar is designed to expand the current PIF/JVYS aircraft modification capabilities to meet the ever increasing military demand.

JVYS is currently supporting the PIF by installing, among other major modifications to military aircraft, Army Airborne Command and Control System (A2C2S) to create airborne command posts, Desert Modifications to harden aircraft for desert deployment, and Integrated Mechanical Diagnostics Health and Usage Management System (IMD HUMS) to manage replacement of aircraft components based on actual wear. The JVYS Aviation Modification Team consists of fully qualified and licensed aircraft sheet metal specialists, technicians, electricians, and mechanics, operating out of the new hangar to support local, national, and overseas installations.

"We got into the aviation modification business in support of the Army PIF projects on Redstone Arsenal," says Yulista General Manager Darrell Harrison. "As we assembled a world-class team to support the growing workload, the PIF/JVYS reputation for efficiency and quality grew attracting attention and work... The new JVYS Aviation Hangar is our investment in what we see as Huntsville’s and Madison County’s growing importance to aviation development and excellence and in our sense that the PIF and JVYS have an increasing role to play in both that development and excellence."

The ribbon cutting ceremony included speakers Matthew Nicolai, President of Calista, Yulista’s parent company, PIF Division Chief Danny Featherston, Madison County Commissioner Mike Gillespie, MCEAA Chairman Tom Sharp and Huntsville Mayor Loretta Spencer.

According to Danny Featherston, "The PIF has experienced phenomenal growth with JVYS. Our team is a great combination of government and industry working to serve the warfighter on a daily basis."

The hangar is scheduled to receive its first Army aircraft in November. For more information on Yulista, SES, and JVYS aircraft modifications contact Charlie Reading at 256-829-3447.

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