TEHRAN (ECOIDEAL)- A senior Iranian aviation official underlined that the country has attained the technology and capability to overhaul and maintain different types of planes.
"We are self-reliant in overhauling and maintenance of different aircraft and enjoy the capability to render our services to other regional states," Head of the Headquarter for Development of Knowledge-Based Aviation and Aeronautics Technology and Industry of the Office of Iran’s Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology Manouchehr Manteqi said on Tuesday.
He added that an important progress made after the Islamic Revolution in Iran (1979) is the country's development and advancement in overhauling and maintaining different military and commercial planes as well as helicopters as an industry.
In relevant remarks in July, Manteqi declared Tehran's willingness to render overhaul and maintenance services to the regional states.
"Doing overhaul and providing maintenance services needed for different military planes, cargo planes and helicopters has been a major achievement made after the (Islamic) Revolution," he said.
"We can claim today that we are self-reliant in this field and enjoy the capability to provide other regional states with such types of services," Manteqi added.
Also, in 2015, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces for Logistics Major General Mostafa Izadi announced Tehran's preparedness to overhaul the most advanced jet engines in the world.
"I can say that we are able to provide the infrastructures to overhaul the latest version of any engines within 3 to 4 months," Izadi said in Tehran.
He said that Iran Aircraft Industries (SAHA) is among the rare centers in the world which can overhaul and inspect different types of airplanes and engines of military and cargo planes.
"We have worked with many countries and have overhauled their planes and we have even overhauled planes in the African continent and South America," Izadi said.
The regional states have also praised the high capabilities of Iranian Navy forces and experts in overhauling and building different types of planes and fighter jets.
Source: Farsnews