West Star Aviation Grand Junction, Grand Junction Regional Airport (KGJT)

West Star Aviation Grand Junction is a full service facility at Grand Junction Regional Airport (GJT) in Grand Junction, Colorado. It specializes in business aircraft maintenance, modifications and refurbishment. It works on aircraft that range in size from turboprops to long range business jets. It also offers fueling support services and ramp services.

The site covers more than 281,000 square feet of hangar, shop and office space on about 32 acres. It has dedicated maintenance hangars and interior, cabinet and avionics shops, as well as a paint facility. The location employs more than 500 full time people. The staff includes a DAR T for maintenance and many veteran, factory trained technicians.

The FBO is open from 5:00 AM to 10:00 PM, seven days a week. It is on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The website lists Hertz, Enterprise and Avis for car rental. It also gives airport details for pilots, including field elevation of about 4,858 feet, left traffic and RNP and GPS approaches to runways 11 and 29. Tower, ground, ATIS, Unicom and ARINC frequencies are listed.

West Star Aviation is an independent maintenance, repair and overhaul provider. The company says it has more than 79 years of industry experience and more than 3,000 employees. Its full service facilities are in East Alton, Illinois; Grand Junction, Colorado; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Millville, New Jersey; Perryville, Missouri; and Statesville, North Carolina. It also has satellite locations in Denver, Houston, Minneapolis and Chicago.

Services across the company include maintenance, avionics, paint, interior, engines and APU, engineering, and a mobile repair team. West Star also offers avionics protection plans and non destructive testing. The testing methods include magnetic particle, visual, borescope, radiography, film radiography, penetrant, eddy current and ultrasonic. The website pages cover airframes such as Challenger, Citation, Conquest, Embraer, Falcon, Global, Gulfstream, Hawker, King Air and Learjet.

West Star runs AOG support around the clock, all year. It says it has the largest Aircraft On Ground network in the country. The mobile repair services reach customers nationwide, and the website has a live map of AOG technicians. Pages for air agency and operations specifications and for STCs are also listed.

Services

• Aircraft maintenance
• Avionics
• Paint
• Interior
• Mobile repair team
• Non destructive testing
• Engines and APU
• Engineering
• AOG support
• Fuel and ramp services