Raytheon Aircraft Services and Aerolineas Ejecutivas signed a joint venture agreement Tuesday to operate Raytheon Aircraft Services-Mexico, a new service center at Toluca, Mexico.

Raytheon is investing $1.5 million in tooling for the new facility, which will operate on Aerolineas' 248,000-square-foot FBO at Toluca International Airport, some 35 miles west of Mexico City. The facility, which is expected to become operational by year-end, includes an executive terminal, ramp space and maintenance and support facilities.

The companies spent two years working out the joint venture agreement, which will create the first business-aircraft service center in Mexico run by a combination of an airframe maker and a dealer.
Raytheon Aircraft Services-Mexico will offer complete scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on the legacy Beech GA line including Bonanzas, Barons, King Airs and Beechjets. The facility will also perform line maintenance on Hawkers. Service levels on the smaller aircraft will run through C-check level, and will include airframe, avionics and engine services. Hawker services will include 300 and 600-hour inspections.

The facility also will provide unscheduled maintenance support and emergency AOG services to transient aircraft. While it won't be worked into the network of centers servicing the Raytheon Travel Air fractional fleet, it will provide regular service to the MexJets fractional operation founded by Aerolineas Ejectivas president Arturo Ortega.