Irvine, California and Fort Worth, Texas, (Monday 17 November 2025).
International Aerospace Coatings (“IAC” or the “Company”) has announced plans to expand the Company’s presence at Fort Worth Meacham International Airport in Texas with the addition of two narrowbody hangars on the airfield. The Company expects the new hangars to be fully operational in early 2026.
This news follows IAC’s announcements earlier this year regarding plans to develop two new state-of-the-art, widebody aircraft painting facilities at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport in Amarillo, Texas and Teruel Airport in Teruel, Spain.
IAC currently operates one widebody hangar in Fort Worth, which has been a cornerstone of the Company’s existing network since 2011. The new hangars will further strengthen IAC’s growing presence in the region, creating approximately 60 new full-time positions and bringing IAC’s total employment at the Fort Worth airport to over 120.
Martin O’Connell, CEO of IAC, said: “I am delighted to announce our new hangar additions in Fort Worth, Texas. These new hangar additions combined with our recent announcement for a widebody hangar in Amarillo show how important these Texas locations are to our network and our customers. These new hangars represent an important step in our expansion strategy since being acquired by Tiger Infrastructure Partners in December 2022. I very much look forward to commencing operations at these new facilities and ensuring we continue to deliver the same best-in-class quality service that our customers have come to expect from IAC.”
The new narrowbody hangars will complement IAC’s existing global network of painting facilities and further enhance the Company’s capacity to serve its expanding US client base.
IAC’s expansive global footprint across North America and Europe, combined with its strong operational track record, has enabled the Company to service some of the largest airlines, OEM’s and aircraft lessors in the world. This is the fifth facility expansion undertaken by IAC since it was acquired in December 2022 by Tiger Infrastructure Partners.
The new hangars will increase the IAC portfolio to 23 hangars globally, increasing the total number of paint lines available at IAC’s US locations to 22 lines and globally to 33 lines.
About International Aerospace Coatings
IAC is a market leading aviation services company headquartered in Irvine, California and Shannon, Ireland. IAC specializes in aircraft painting, aviation technical services, aircraft interior refurbishment and aircraft graphic solutions for OEM’s, commercial airlines, leasing companies, air cargo carriers, governments and other owners of wide and narrow body aircraft. IAC also provides engineering services and asset management solutions to help customers ensure regulatory compliance through its Eirtech Aviation Services (EAS) division. For more information, visit www.iac.aero.
About Tiger Infrastructure Partners
Tiger Infrastructure Partners is an innovative private equity firm focused on providing transformational growth capital to middle market infrastructure companies. Tiger
Infrastructure’s value-add approach targets growth investments across the Digital Infrastructure, Energy Transition and Transportation sectors in North America and Europe,
where Tiger Infrastructure believes strong tailwinds are driving demand for new infrastructure. Tiger Infrastructure maintains offices in New York and London. For more information, visit www.tigerinfrastructure.com