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Miami Tech Line Maintenance Spreads Its Wings

Posted on: Thursday, 4 August 2005, 15:00 CDT

Aug. 4--Miami Tech Line Maintenance, a privately owned aircraft repair station based at Miami International Airport, plans to expand its operation and hire 200 more workers.

The aircraft maintenance company recently won Miami-Dade County commission approval for $39,000 in Enterprise Zone tax incentives to be paid out over six years, said Carlos Leonard, assistant executive vice president of the Beacon Council, which helped arrange the incentives.

Founded in 1993 by two former Eastern Airlines mechanics, Miami Tech Line Maintenance now employs 40 people in Miami to handle passenger and cargo aircraft maintenance and engine installations and removals. The company operates out of 2,000 square feet of space at MIA.

During the next three years, the minority-owned company plans to hire 200 full-time employees with an average salary of $40,000, the Beacon Council said. The company also plans to invest $525,000 to lease and renovate a 60,000-square-foot hangar and buy new equipment.

"Now the maintenance they do is on the ramp," Leonard said. "And what they are trying to do is lease one of the available hangars at MIA in order to be able to do additional maintenance work that can't be done just on the tarmac."

Tomas Romero, majority owner and president of Miami Tech Line Maintenance, said the company's customer list is growing, and includes cargo carriers Arrow Air and Gemini Air Cargo, and passenger carriers including British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Aeromexico. He said the company, co-owned by Vice President Amos Rodriguez, "is going through growing pains."

"We are not a large corporation, we are people who got in from the bottom up," said Romero, who worked at Eastern Airlines from 1986 to 1991. "Finally after 10 years, we are making it."

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Source: The Miami Herald

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