IAC are pleased to announce that we will be attending Airline Economics ‘The Dublin Aviation Summit’ on the 16th and 17th of May. This is a new and exciting event to take place in Dublin, bringing together leading MRO’s, Financial Sectors [...]
2016 proved to be an eventful year, most notably with the rebrand from our three legacy companies to the new International Aerospace Coatings name. Leading Edge Aviation Services, Associated Painters and Eirtech Aviation merged legal entities and [...]
Date : February 8-9, 2017
Location: Booth 232, Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai, UAE
We are pleased to announce that the International Aerospace Coatings team will be attending MRO Middle East 2017.
If you would like to set up a meeting [...]
Our Fort Worth, Texas crew had the distinct pleasure and honor of painting another C-130 for the US Forest Service in mid-September. We are proud of our team of managers, painters and everyone involved in the completion of this amazing aircraft. [...]
In September IAC welcomed Enrique Perrella, Editor of Airways Magazine, a U.S based publication to our Rome facility to meet with General Manager, Angelo Lacorte, to learn about the business operations and day to day tasks when it comes to painting [...]
In September IAC completed a special livery for Rossiya Airlines featuring the face of an Amur Tiger on the nose of a Boeing 747. As part of a collaboration with the ‘Amur Tiger Centre’ to raise awareness of the challenges of preserving and [...]
Mr. Paul Dunphy / Mr. Declan O’Brien
Paul Dunphy takes over as General Manager of the flagship Victorville, California facility while previous General Manager, Declan O'Brien transitions back to Europe as Operations Manager for Rome and [...]
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On October 27th, Qantas debuted its new livery on VH-QPJ, a freshly painted A330 from our Victorville, California facility. Our team was thrilled to play a part in the re-design, [...]
The 2016 Aviation Industry Awards Shortlist has been announced with many of Irelands most successful and emerging aviation businesses making the final cut.
This year’s black tie awards ceremony will take place on Wednesday December 7th at the [...]
In June, IAC completed a United Airlines “Retro Continental Airlines” Paint Livery in our Amarillo, Texas site.
The process for completing this special livery was that we first started with stripping and repainting the aircraft. This took our [...]
The Flying Eye Hospital is the world’s only state of the art mobile teaching hospital on board an MD-10 aircraft. The ‘Flying Eye Hospital’ is equipped with everything needed to unite the world to fight blindness. “The plane provides hands-on [...]
IAC is excited to announce that we have launched a new Facebook page.
We take pride in our new company and want to share this with our customers online. Keep updated on IAC’s news, calendar of events and latest projects across all of our sites [...]
In June, International Aerospace Coatings launched an Aircraft Surface Finishing Diploma Course in conjunction with the Limerick, Clare Education Training Board. As Ireland has an international reputation as a world-class centre for aircraft [...]
IAC was delighted to work with Belavia on its first ever aircraft billboard advertising. This unique and exciting livery was the first of its kind for both the Belarusian airline, and Wargaming, the mastermind behind the world famous, World of Tanks. [...]
Glenn’s background is in chemistry having commenced his career as a chemist and gaining a BSc in Chemistry, he then transitioned into sales management in a technical capacity spending over 20 years in international technical sales and sales [...]
Patrick commenced his career in the marketing and education sector where he spent three years lecturing at Limerick Institute of Technology. He joined IAC in 2012 as Sales Manager for Aircraft Refinishing Services. In 2016, Patrick was promoted to [...]
In 2016 IAC celebrated the completion of the 100th Viking Twin Otter, this aircraft took our team in Spokane 15 days to paint as it was at corporate expectations.
We used the PPG 8800 Series Paint System on this Twin Otter with 20 painters [...]
Thanks to an abundance of wide body paint capacity we were able to accommodate a very interesting livery transition. This was a second sand and paint event on a B747 for Everett that we have performed successfully. This project had a large Seahawks [...]
IAC – Victorville California (formerly known as Leading Edge Aviation Services, Associated Painters & Eirtech Aviation) recently completed a B777 for British Airways. This aircraft had previously suffered some damage and was going through [...]
IAC – Fort Worth Texas recently completed its first Alenia C27J for the US Coast Guard. This is one of several planes to be converted from previous US Airforce livery to the US Coast Guard colors. IAC (formerly known as Leading Edge) partnered with [...]
International Aerospace Coatings recently helped SWISS unveil its flagship Boeing 777-300ER, now the largest aircraft in its fleet, with a very special livery. Deemed “The Faces of SWISS,” this aircraft showcases 2500 employees of the airline [...]
Another Belgian icon was the inspiration behind the most recent masterpiece created at International Aerospace Coatings for Brussels Airlines, at the Ostrava, Czech Republic facility.
The flying artwork depicts internationally acclaimed, [...]
October 2015
Eirtech Aviation were proud to be the platinum sponsor of the International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading (ISTAT) held in Prague in the Czech Republic earlier in October.
The conference, with over 500 attendees, topics of [...]
Leading Edge Aviation Services (LEAS) recently painted their first aircraft for XTRAirways. The aircraft, a Boeing 737 was painted in LEAS’ Amarillo, Texas facility into XTRAirways’ striking livery.
XTRAirways were formed in 1989 and have [...]
Eirtech Aviation in Ostrava (Czech Republic) recently painted an Alitalia Airbus A320 into a special livery, as part of the Alitalia rebrand programme.
Staff at the Italian national airline were asked to write a short quote or statement about [...]
Eirtech Aviation (Shannon) were recently involved in the completion of a special livery for Aer Lingus and the IRFU (Irish Rugby Football Union). The newly painted aircraft (registration EI-DEO) was unveiled in 'IRFU and player' branding, following [...]
Eirtech Aviation has won a second successive award in the Irish Aviation Awards, which were held recently in Dublin Ireland.
The awards are set up to recognise the achievements of Irish based companies in the Irish Aviation and Aerospace [...]
For more than 86 years, 350 million books and translations into 80 different languages, the Belgian comic character ‘Tintin’ has not only inspired many famous people such as Steven Spielberg and Andy Warhol but many children have grown up [...]
Services: Design, Paintings
IAC recently undertook a case study with the Middle East based operator Gulf Air. An aircraft was chemically paint stripped and repainted with a newly developed paint system called “Base Coat Clear Coat” This newly [...]
Services: Design, Paintings
Alitalia have recently selected the services of IAC to paint A320 family aircraft and B777’s, having recently converted to the BC/CC paint system of Mankiewicz it was an easy decision for Alitalia given the wide [...]
Leading Edge Aviation Services, Associated Painters, and Eirtech Aviation officially combine into one global aircraft painting company under new brand – International Aerospace Coatings (IAC)
Irvine, California – April 12, 2017 - Following [...]
Over 65 of Ireland’s most successful and emerging aviation businesses make the final cut.
Gala Awards black-tie ceremony on Thursday 28th May 2015 at the Double Tree by Hilton on the Burlington Road.
Event will celebrate excellence and [...]
The latest famous face to be painted for Norwegian Air Shuttle (NAS) was Edvard Munch the Norwegian painter on their newly received B787 Dreamliner. This image illustrates the painting process nearing completion which took place in our hangar at [...]
