AAI Services receives $6.7 million contract from Boeing

Charleston area simulation center will provide a training system for the U.S. Air Force as part of a contract with The Boeing Co.

AAI Services Corp., a subsidiary of United Industrial Corp., received a $6.7 million contract from The Boeing Co. to provide an additional maintenance training system for the U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft.

AAI Services will manage the contract and perform the work at its Training and Simulation Center in Charleston. Finished systems are scheduled for delivery to Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas, next year

AAI Services will upgrade an existing landing gear trainer for delivery in October 2008. The company is already under contract to build a new landing gear trainer and a new armament trainer, and to enhance an existing armament trainer and an aft fuselage trainer for the Air Force’s newest multi-role tactical aircraft.

F-22 trainers from AAI Services are high-fidelity maintenance training simulators used by Air Force technicians to develop apprentice-level certification skills for maintaining critical components and systems. The trainers interface with electronic maintenance tools and aircraft support equipment used on in-service aircraft, providing high-quality, realistic, hands-on training.

Boeing is a primary member of the F-22 Raptor manufacturing team and is responsible for providing training systems for the aircraft program.

Since 1997, AAI Services has grown from a niche supplier of maintenance trainer modifications to a leading developer of sophisticated maintenance training devices for the U.S. Air Force.

The new order for F-22 trainers adds further diversity to AAI Services’ roster of high-fidelity maintenance trainers, which includes 26 C-17 Globemaster III maintenance trainer systems fielded in a variety of configurations and locations.