PRODUCTS & S ER V ICES
Duncan
Aviation paints
more than 200
aircraft per year
at its various
facilities
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OCTOBER 2019
n April 2019, Duncan Aviation
opened a new paint hangar at
its full-service facility in Provo,
Utah. Designed by Tectonic Management
Group, a long-time partner with Duncan
Aviation, the 53,000ft2 (4,924m2) facility
uses the latest technology available
with down-draft air flow and automatic
monitoring and alarms. It is designed to
accommodate multiple aircraft at once,
using a two-zone airflow system.
“The new paint hangar is the only
truly green business jet paint facility
in the USA,” says Chad Doehring, vice
president of Provo operations. “It
releases no waste products to the water
or the air. The facility meets the very
strict air requirements set by the state
of Utah and by the Environmental
Protection Agency. In fact, air from the
hangar goes through a regenerative
thermal oxidizer that burns off volatile
organic compounds (VOCs), so more than
99.7% of the air we release is clean.”
Because of the way the new paint
hangar was designed, the Duncan
Aviation paint teams are able to strip,
sand, paint and perform detail work on
multiple aircraft simultaneously.
CUSTOMER FEEDBACK
Harlow Norell, chief pilot for MRK in Reno,
Nevada, is a long-time customer of
Duncan Aviation, and he was impressed
with the new paint hangar. “They made
this new facility the best it could possibly
be,” he says. “The quality of the new
building is impressive; it’s beautiful and
sophisticated. I’m especially pleased to
know that the paint hangar meets all of
the strict environment laws in Utah.”
Members of the Provo paint team had
trained together for 6-12 months at the
Duncan Aviation facility in Lincoln,
Nebraska, and many members of the
team are veteran paint experts. In April
The new paint facility at Duncan Aviation
is sacrificing pollutants, not pizzazz
I
GREEN TEAM
such confidence.
The paint scheme
turned out great!
From the initial design
vision everyone had to the
delivery of the completed project, Duncan
Aviation executed.”
Indseth was delighted that the
finished paint scheme held no surprises.
“It absolutely remained true to the vision
and true to the rendering,” he says.
“The new hangars here in Provo are
great, too. They’ll bring in new work and
new projects. We’ll definitely be back.”
Within the first two months of its
opening, the team has painted a Global,
a CJ3, a Falcon 900, a Challenger 604 and
a G450. Among its upcoming projects are
a Falcon 2000 and a G450. Although most
aircraft are from businesses on the West
Coast or elsewhere in the Southwest, one
aircraft recently arrived from South
America for a full paint job.
2019, when the paint hangar opened, the
team was fully trained and ready to go.
FIRST PROJECT
The first aircraft to roll into the new paint
hangar was a Global 5000, and it was
getting a complicated new paint scheme:
a black to charcoal fade. The paint
scheme was the brainchild of Duncan
Aviation’s associate designer, Teri
Nekuda. When 3D designer Dan Ryba
showed the 3D rendering of the paint
scheme to the customer, Tom Indseth,
director of maintenance for the Global
5000, he was sold. Indseth wasn’t worried
about being the first customer in the new
paint hangar, either. “Although this
project was the first aircraft painted in
Provo, it didn’t feel like it,” he says.
“Everyone working on our Global had
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