Interview With Mr Brandao

Interview with Mr. Roberto Brandão Serrano, Administrative Director of Kraüss Aeronáutica Ind. e Com. de Aeronaves Ltda “Besides our specialized and dynamic team, we are opened to work in the place of customer, in their bases, without necessity for them to bring the aircraft to our facilities” said Mr. Roberto Brandão Serrano, General Manager of Kraüss Aeronáutica Ind. e Com. de Aeronaves Ltda in an exclusive interview that he gave to Epicos.

1. Could you please tell us about the place of Kraüss Aeronáutica in the national and international market? Our hangar / facilities are located in Campo Grande, MS, Brazil and we have a remote base in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil in process of certification where we support a fleet of EMB120, in number of six aircraft. Actually we are working to install a remote base on Ecuador, Nigeria, Angola, Russia, Jordanian and Egypt. 2. What are the next steps and the priorities that Kraüss Aeronáutica is going to take? The next step of our pool of companies will be the certification for full PW100 and PT6A Series overhaul until the end of this year. Meanwhile we are working to finish the KA-01 agricultural plane project to generate the drawings to construct and fly the KA-01 prototype until December, 2009. We are also studying to get certification for ERJ145 family and ATRs this year yet.

3. What are the difficulties that the company is currently facing? Due to the large demand of maintenance services we are looking for another place / hangar to support our fast growth.

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4. Why someone should choose Kraüss Aeronáutica to do business? Besides our specialized and dynamic team, we are opened to work in the place of customer, in their bases, without necessity for them to bring the aircraft to our facilities. For example we can make a PW100 HSI on wing of EMB120 with safety and low costs, reduced TAT and warranty. 5. Is there a specific country that the company is going to expand? As stated before, we are working to open certified facilities on Ecuador, Nigeria, Angola, Russia, Jordanian and Egypt.

6. What are the main advantages of the company? Dynamic team – we can go to the customers and there working on their aircraft. We can offer low cost, warranty, low TAT and the most important, Safety. 7. Is Kraüss Aeronáutica currently investing in a new technology? Yes, actually we are working to install the most advanced Engine Test Bench for PW100 and PT6A series of the South America. 8. Could you please make a comment about the international Aerospace and Defense Industry and its orientations? We are following and living nowadays a great development in new technologies as avionics, UAVs, new and light materials and others. Those new technologies are coming on to help us get working at aviation market with safety, low costs and to improve the missions that them were developed for. As an example, we have some orders for KA-01 to be used in markets not as agricultural plane but for policy use to inspect country borders. Then, we can conclude that during an aircraft project development, our case, we shall have in mind all options for use of our final product besides them were developed for.

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9. Could you please provide us with some financial results from the past years that will highlight the course of Kraüss Aeronáutica? In the last eight (08) months we achieved a target of almost USD 1 Mi only working in selling and aircraft maintenance in our remote facility. 10. Could you please give us some examples of successful contracts that Kraüss Aeronáutica signed in Brazil or abroad? Successful contract for our pool of company: We made “C” checks in EMB120 in Africa, and Brazil, full services in EMB120 as ramp transit, engines replacement, propellers replacement, landing gear overhaul and others checks at our remote facility in Belo Horizonte, Inspections for State Government aircraft and others, inspections at EMB120 at Ecuador, etc.

About Kraüss Aeronáutica Kraüss Aeronáutica and its partners act in aircraft maintenance from light checks up to full checks as “C” and CPCP; inspections and revision for PW100 and PT6A series as, HSI, boroscope inspections, light overhaul and others. Kraüss Aeronáutica and partners have the capability to revise landing gears, propellers 14 RF, 14 SF and 568F, hydraulic systems components, APUs GTCP-36-100, GTCP-36-150, T62T-40C5/C7 and others parts. Tests and Calibrations for: • • • • • • •

Transponder Mode C/s Altitude Indicator Speed Indicator Climb DME VOR ILS

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Installation of: • • • •

TCAS II FMS GPS / GNS EGPWS / TAWS

Kraüss Aeronáutica and its partners have the capability for the following aircraft: • • • • •

EMB120 RT/ER/QC/FC; EMB110A / B1 / C / E / F / K1 / P1 / P2; EMB121 A / A1; EMB821; PIPER PA31T.

For Further Information Contact: Roberto Brandão Serrano, Sócio Diretor Kraüss Aeronáutica Ind. e Com. de Aeronaves Ltda at [email protected] Or Visit: ¾ Kraüss Aeronáutica information center on Epicos ¾ Epicos Preview on Kraüss Aeronáutica ¾ Kraüss Aeronáutica Website

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