Automatic Test Equipment Complex 1978 (Paris)

 PIA purchased Automatic Test Equipment to testing, repairing and Overhauling Airbus Automatic Flight Control System Computers from a French Company named “Aérospatiale Paris-France”.

  

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Aérospatiale was a major French state-owned aerospace corporation that developed and manufactured both civilian and military aircraft as well as rockets, missiles and satellites. It was incorporated in 1970 as Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale (English: National Aerospace Industrial Company) through the merger of three state-owned aerospace companies: Sud Aviation, Nord Aviation and SEREB. The company was headquartered in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. During its history, Aérospatiale was involved with many high-profile aerospace programs, including the Concorde supersonic airliner, the Ariane space launch vehicle, and the Airbus A300, the world's first twin-engine wide body airliner.

ATEC 4000 machine was manufactured by Aérospatiale, while its Minicomputer, Disc Drive, Line Printer, Display, Voltmeter and Timer were built by Hewlett Packard.

After sales service engineer from Aérospatiale stayed for about 13 months to train 4 persons in Instrument Overhaul shop along with maintenance of Machine while an Instructor from Hewlett Packard was here to provide training of Hewlett Packard modules installed in machine.

 A certificate of Merit was awarded to me at the conclusion of Maintenance Seminar.