Samco

SAMCO Aircraft Maintenance is an independent MRO company. Its facilities are at Maastricht Airport in the Netherlands and Bratislava Airport in Slovakia. It serves airlines, lessors and OEMs.

Services include heavy base maintenance, line maintenance, CAMO continuing airworthiness services, aircraft storage, logistic support, asset and maintenance management, and EASA Part 21 approved design changes.

Capabilities listed are Airbus A220, Airbus A320, Embraer ERJ170 and ERJ190, and Boeing 777. Bombardier named it an Authorised Service Facility for the Q Series in 2009. In 2016 it became the first AMO in the world to receive A220 and C Series approval. Airbus has extended its A220 Authorized Service Facility agreement for another five years.

The history starts in 1945 with the Schreiner Aviation Group. The technical division moved to Maastricht in 1988. SAMCO was founded as an independent company in 2004. It opened a new hangar at Maastricht in 2018 and got A320 heavy maintenance certification in 2020. EN9110 quality certification came in 2022 and EASA Part 145 D1 NDT approval for eddy current and ultrasonic inspection in 2023.

Recent news includes the purchase of Austrian Airlines Technik Bratislava in 2024 and a line maintenance contract with Cyprus Airways. The Maastricht office is at Horsterweg 19, phone 31 43 358 7900. A contact form and a vacancies page are on the site.