Rijnmond Air Services BV (RAS) at present day, employs 35 people and most staff have been working with RAS for more than 10 years. Although a relatively small company, RAS employees have much experience in all aspects of aircraft maintenance and is believed to be one of the oldest maintenance facilities in The Netherlands. The company is part of a large holding enterprise which is active in a variety of businesses.
Today, RAS performs maintenance services for a variety of customers such as private aircraft owners, corporate operators as well as commercial operators including one of the largest commercial business jet operators in the world. References are not published here since we respect the privacy of our customers. Special references can only be given on request.
RAS is an EASA Part-145 and FAA approved maintenance facility since many years and has maintained a very good reputation with the CAA-NL but also with foreign CAA’s like UK and Isle of Man during all these years. It has a wide Scope of aircraft and helicopter types on the approval as well as component maintenance and special capabilities such as structural repairs, avionics modifications, NDT and Pratt & Whitney engine support as DMF.
The main offices and hangars are located at Rotterdam The Hague airport in The Netherlands and consist of two maintenance bays on each side of our main office. One bay with a footprint of 2.400 m2 is especially outfitted for maintenance and storage of business jets and it can accommodate aircraft up to Gulfstream G650, Bombardier Global XRS/6500 etc. The adjacent hangar of 900m2 is used for propeller aircraft and special duties such as paintwork and major structural repairs.
At Teuge Airport RAS uses the facilities of Uniwest to offer Base Maintenance activities on this airport for the Cessna Citation series aircraft. This hangar can accommodate aircraft up to the Cessna Citation 560XL series.
The RAS maintenance department works a daily two-shift system between 07:00 and 23:00 LT and also during weekends a MRT is on standby for AOG support.
The AOG support services of RAS are provided throughout the world, on call and with rapid response. RAS is well known for its troubleshooting expertise and its efficient support and over the last decades it has gained extensive experience with this type of maintenance support.
RAS, is well known for its reliability, quality, flexibility and efficiency.
Our company keypoints
We care
- for you staying in control of your maintenance
for your asset as if it was our own
for making sure that your maintenance is being done efficiently
for your aircraft receiving the highest maintenance quality possible
about your operation being safe and cost effective
and make your satisfaction our first priority
for supporting you with our highest motivation
for your maintenance with 90% of our engineers having 10 years+ experience in this business
about your time schedule
for keeping you as our regular customer for decades to come