AeroTEC hopes to turn Moses Lake into jumbo jet repair center
AeroTEC CEO and President Lee Human (right, foreground) shows Moses Lake City Council Member Mike Riggs (to his left) and Grant County Public Utility District Commissioner Dale Walker, as well as other visitors, Wednesday morning around the company's newly completed jumbo jet hangar, which is big enough to hold one 747 and two 737s at the same time.
Charles H. Featherstone
AeroTEC CEO and President Lee Human (right, foreground) shows Moses Lake City Council Member Mike Riggs (to his left) and Grant County Public Utility District Commissioner Dale Walker, as well as other visitors, Wednesday morning around the company's newly completed jumbo jet hangar, which is big enough to hold one 747 and two 737s at the same time.
AeroTEC CEO and President Lee Human shows off several of the tanks and pumps inside the Global Supertanker, a 747 converted to carry fire retardant to disperse at low altitude on wildfires.
Work in underway on the Global Supertanker, a 747 converted as an aerial firefighting tanker, at AeroTEC's new jumbo jet hangar at the Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake. If all goes as planned, maintenance work should be finished by the end of March.
AeroTEC CEO and President Lee Human (right, foreground) shows Moses Lake City Council Member Mike Riggs (to his left) and Grant County Public Utility District Commissioner Dale Walker, as well as other visitors, Wednesday morning around the company's newly completed jumbo jet hangar, which is big enough to hold one 747 and two 737s at the same time.
MOSES LAKE — AeroTEC’s CEO sees at least part of the company’s future providing a base for the repair and maintenance of 747s right here in Moses Lake.
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