Kazakhstan's corporate and private aviation market is gradually expanding, thanks to technical maintenance that complies with international standards and rules. One such technical maintenance provider, Pure Technics, has expanded its technical capabilities with three new areas aimed at end-to-end services to maintain the airworthiness of Embraer 135/145 (Embraer Legacy 600/650), Beechcraft King Air 300 series aircraft, and Leonardo AW139 and Airbus H145 helicopters (EC-145/MBB BK117 C2 and D2 variants).

“I'm pleased to announce that Pure Technics has successfully passed an audit by our country's aviation administration, as well as the certification procedures as an aircraft maintenance organisation, which opens new opportunities for our clients,” says general director Andrey Lysenko. “During the training, our team has been joined by new leaders. In particular, we welcomed Dmitriy Sokolov as executive director, who has a valid engineer licence for maintenance of airplanes and helicopters newly supported by our company. Dmitriy has long worked with European aircraft manufacturers and handled projects involving after-sales service in the CIS.”

“The Pure Technics team and I have carried out colossal joint work,” says Sokolov. “The company gained new impetus and a path to renewal, leading to the completion of a first critical stage: renewal of its aircraft maintenance certification and mastery of new types of aircraft. I'm very grateful to our team for that.”

As a result of the training and certification, three fundamentally new areas have been created at the Nursultan Nazarbayev International airport-based service centre.

The first targets helicopter operators, of which there are many in Kazakhstan thanks to the economy's well-developed energy and mining sectors. Pure Technics now performs line and base maintenance of Leonardo AW139 and Airbus H145 helicopters (EC-145/MBB BK117 C2 and D2 variants).

Because its professional team has improved in terms of labour-intensive forms of maintenance, operators experience less downtime performing scheduled and unscheduled checks. Pure Technics has been bolstered by specially instructed and trained B1, B2 and С engineers, which allows the company to perform the most labour-intensive technical maintenance checks.

The company has hired mechanics to gradually grow and establish the training of young staff. It has special tools, maintenance platforms, mobile maintenance tables, supports for uninstalled and inspecting helicopter blades and so forth, and consumables for routine technical maintenance.

Pure Technics is now in active conversations with operators.

The second area is maintenance of Beechcraft King Air 300 series (350, 360i) turboprops, the workhorses used in Kazakhstan to perform various aviation services related to passenger and cargo transport. These aircraft are in high demand in the market, and their operators should know that in autumn 2023, Pure Technics held successful talks with Textron.

As a result, the Pure Technics team gained experienced and professional engineers. It purchased special tools and consumables, and it signed a memorandum of cooperation with a King Air 300 operator in a neighbouring state. It is currently negotiating the terms of a maintenance contract and working to have local aviation authorities validate its MRO certificate. Also, it plans to negotiate and partner with one of the Beechcraft King Air 300 series operators in Kazakhstan.

“Relying on my professional experience, I'm confident that the development of this area will lead to additional sales of this type of plane in the region,” says Sokolov. “And that Pure Technics will comprehensively support Textron in this by providing highly professional after-sales maintenance services.”

These services comprise:

- Line and base maintenance

- Technical management

- Delivery of spare parts and consumables

- Supporting new potential customers

- Support related to training engineers and pilots

Pure Technics also plans to develop the maintenance and repair of components installed on this aircraft.

The third new service from Pure Technics relates to the Embraer Legacy, the most popular business jet in the post-Soviet space.

“Line maintenance of Embraer 135/145 planes is also a rather promising area, and we are already talking with customers about providing on-duty engineers and technical support for their planes at Nursultan Nazarbayev International airport,” says Sokolov, noting that Pure Technics is ready to provide technical management (engineering service) and decoding of flight data information. “Negotiations in this area are underway with potential customers.”

General director Andrey Lysenko shares his colleague's optimism that the Pure Technics team is attracting industry professionals and young people, and has every chance of becoming one of the employers and growth drivers for the state programmes being implemented by the Kazakh government in relation to maintaining the airworthiness of aircraft in accordance with the highest international standards and rules. This has happened because the Kazakh market is the largest in Central Asia; it has become an engine of growth for commercial and special aviation in the region.