Eurocopter UK is building a new helicopter service center in Aberdeen.
Offshore staff
ABERDEEN, UK -- Eurocopter UK is building a new helicopter service center in Aberdeen. The facility, which will be designed and built for Eurocopter UK by Knight Property Group, will offer logistical and technical support and flight simulator training for the offshore oil industry.
The Eurocopter center will comprise a 10,000-sq ft (929-sq m) logistics warehouse and 5,000 sq ft (465 sq m) of offices as well as 5,360 sq ft (498 sq m) of flight simulator accommodation, which will house Eurocopter's first UK-based EC225 flight training simulator. Work at the site will begin with ground breaking in April, and it is expected that the facility will be completed by December.