ExecuJet MRO Services Partners With Satys For Paint Services In Dubai

DUBAI—ExecuJet MRO Services Middle East, located at Dubai South's Al Maktoum International Airport, is adding paint shop services in an agreement with Satys Aerospace.

ExecuJet MRO Services opened the facility at the site 18 months ago after moving from Dubai International Airport. Satys'  dedicated paint facility will be located near ExecuJet's site.

ExecuJet provides line and heavy maintenance for a variety of aircraft types, including Dassault Aviation, Bombardier, Embraer and Hawker. It also specializes in cabin refurbishments.

By the time business jets need the large C-Check inspections, the interior and exterior begin to look a little “shoddy,” Nick Weber, ExecuJet MRO Services regional vice president, tells Aviation Week Network during MEBAA, sponsored by the Middle East and North Africa Business Aviation Association. 

“Customers know their aircraft are going to be down for an extended period,” Weber says. At the same time, “they often want to have the interior and the exterior revamped.”

While the company could perform the interior upgrades, it wasn’t able to revamp the exteriors in Dubai.

So customers, many of them European based, take the aircraft back to Europe or to the U.S. The services expansion will allow ExecuJet to attract more clientele.

The paint facility is expected to open in the first quarter of 2025. Construction is complete, Weber says. But equipment must be installed, while the process to obtain approvals is underway.

The facility will accommodate large business jets, such as the Boeing BBJ and Airbus ACJ and airliners up to the Boeing 737-10 MAX and Airbus A321XL. It has an annual capacity to paint up to 35 aircraft. 

Since it opened, ExecuJet MRO Services in Dubai has exceeded expectations and is growing, Weber says.

The move from Dubai International Airport “enabled us to have all our services under one roof, as opposed to split hangars we had at DXB,” Weber says. It also enabled an expansion of services because it now has proper hangar space to support the aircraft. In the former location, aircraft had been parked on the ramp.

The change is paying off.

“We’ve just actually gone through probably our busiest summer on record ... I’m going back to early 2000s,” Weber says. Typically, in the summer, aircraft are flown to Europe, Asia or other places in the world for heavy maintenance as owners leave because of the extreme heat.

This year, “in fact, we’ve seen aircraft come in from Europe,” he says, attracted by the company’s offerings and reputation paired with an overall boost from an uptick in travel activity. “European facilities are also fairly full ... With our facility and the size now, we do have more availability [of slots] than we’ve had in the past, so we are able to offer them slots.”

In November 2025, for example, the facility had 16 jets in the hangar for service and eight-to-10 more on the ramp at any given time. The jets were the large legacy jets.

Globally, ExecuJet recently acquired EASA approval for the Global 7500, so it can expand on its offering of the aircraft it supports. It also is working closely with GE to support the Passport engine.

The company is putting a lot of focus in its back shop, such as nondestructive testing, to support business aviation as well as the airlines, Weber says.