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Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Korean Air delivers 4,000th refurbished military plane

F-15K EagleKorean Air Lines Co. said Wednesday that it has delivered its 4,000th refurbished military plane, 36 years after it started depot maintenance operations.

The company, South Korea's largest air carrier and logistics giant, held a ceremony in Busan, to mark the delivery of an F-15 air-superiority fighter jet to the U.S. Air Force, and outlined its goal to play a leading role in the global aerospace sector.

It started maintenance work in 1978 by repairing and overhauling planes operated by the South Korean and U.S. military. It has a maintenance tech center built on 707,866 square meters of land in Busan, 453 kilometers southeast of Seoul. This facility has a factory space of 266,180 square meters and employs some 2,700 people.

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