History
Aero Oy – later Finnair - was established on 1st November, 1923 and this was also the birth year of the maintenance organization known today as Finnair Technical Services.
Our nearly a century long history entails extensive tradition in maintenance and engineering services. View a slideshow of our history for a detailed description.
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20's
Finnair Technical Services roots go back to the founding of Aero Oy, the first real Finnish airline established in 1923. The first maintenance actions were carried on a ski-equipped, single-engined Junkers F13 (two seats for crew, four seats for passengers) in March 1924.
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30's
A major overhaul on a F13 in progress at a workshop adjacent to Aero’s Kellosaari hangar November 1st, 1932. Helsinki got its land airport 1936 when Malmi airport was opened and at the same time opened a modern hangar for maintenance activities.
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40's
Douglas DC-3 aircraft with 21 pax seats added to Aero’s fleet. Separate instrument, radio and electrical power shops established in the maintenance department. The combined staff of the above shops was 8 mechanics.
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50's
As an example to illustrate the rapid growth of Aero’s in-house maintenance capabilities the number of avionics staff was already 51 at the beginning of 1951. In September Aero ordered 3 new twin-engined Convair CV-340 a/c from the San Diego, CA, manufacturer. The new Helsinki-Vantaa airport opened in July 1952 and base maintenance activities moved from Malmi airport to Vantaa 1955.
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60's
The first Caravelle with 16 first-class and 57 tourist class seats joined Aero’s fleet in February 1960. The new aircraft required another big leap from the maintenance department’s capabilities. 1961 the 3 original Caravelle IA were modified to Caravelle Series III standard locally by the maintenance department.
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70's
Finnair’s first wide-body aircraft, a DC-10-30, joins the fleet. To facilitate the maintenance needs of the new big aircraft a new hangar (#3) was built for Technical Services. Also plans for a new engine shop with an engine test cell big enough to cater the CF6-50 engine were started.
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80's
The first MD-80 series aircraft entered Finnair fleet in spring 1983, totalling 24 aircraft over the following years. There was a very extensive avionics modification program designed and embodied by the Technical Services in order to get standardized cockpits to the whole fleet.
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90's
In autumn 1995 our first and also the world’s first heavy maintenance MD-11 D-check was performed by Finnair Technical Services in our facilities.
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2000
A340 was launched into Finnair's fleet summer 2006. It replaced MD-11 aircraft due to better fuel economy.
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2010's
January 2010 Technical services separated from Finnair into two subsidiary companies of Finnair Group: Finnair Technical Services Ltd and Finnair Engine Services Ltd. Together these companies provide full maintenance service to our customers.
