ENGINEERING Holding has performed its first painting job on an aircraft operated by an airline from outside the CIS territory. In September 2016, Mineralnye Vody-based Aircraft Painting Center of S 7 ENGINEERING (part of the ENGINEERING Holding) re-delivered a freshly painted Bombardier CRJ200 to its operator, Indian regional carrier Zoom Air.   

While working on Zoom Air’s aircraft, S 7 ENGINEERING’s team used the cutting edge base coat / clear coat painting system from the Dutch provider Akzo Nobel.  

“As the CEO and Managing Director of the company I would like to thank you for a brilliant job done and in most professional manner. I was myself present at Mineralnye Vody at your centre and had met the team and found the workmanship really superb. There is no word to thank for such a brilliant job done as definitely it’s not an easy livery to work with,”— Zoom Air’s CEO Koustav M. Dhar commented.   

Since S 7 ENGINEERING’s Aircraft painting center became operational at Mineralnye Vody airport in the fall of 2014, about a dozen of Russia’s leading carriers have used its services.   

The center’s first foreign customer was Kazakhstan’s national carrier Air Astana, which trusted the Russian provider with the painting of its Boeing 757-200 this spring.