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Business/Financial

Boeing, Dutch Partner Open CH-47 Chinook Maintenance Training Center

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, April 27th, 2012

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Boeing [BA] and its Dutch partner the Rotary Wing Training Center (RWTC) this week officially opened a state-of-the-art CH-47 Chinook helicopter maintenance training facility near Royal Netherlands Air Force base Gilze-Rijen. The RWTC is a subsidiary of the Netherlands' World Class Aviation Academy (WCAA). "Partnering with the WCAA and RWTC means we now can provide high-quality training to our international customers closer to their home bases, saving them time and money," said Mark McGraw, Boeing vice president for Training Systems…

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