Also, taking advantage
of a Class B special airport, which supports Shahid Beheshti Airport of
Isfahan, has turned HESA into a gateway for international trade. HESA exports
its products all over the world through collaboration with most executive and
forwarding service companies both inside Iran and abroad.
Having strong scientific
and research ties with most domestic universities and all aerospace
universities of the country and some foreign aerospace universities as well as
scientific and research bonds with design and research centers of the world
has made HESA a most modern aircraft manufacturing industrial center whose
doors are always open to students, professors, and pioneers of aerospace
science. The relationship between university and industry is very strong in
HESA.
Most domestic graduates
in the fields of mechanical engineering, industries and aerospace have been
employed by HESA. HESA enjoys a science-oriented structure and its young
scientific staff will continue to train specialist manpower needed for
domestic aircraft manufacturing industry for years to come.
HESA is a
customer-oriented organization and attaches great significance to satisfaction
of its customers. Therefore, HESA has a marketing, sales and after-sales
services organization and considers itself responsible for customers and their
interests from the moment they think of purchasing its products, to actual
purchase of products and, afterwards, for as many years as those products are
being used by customers.
HESA is equipped with a
modern after-sales services system known as H.A.S.T., which stands for HESA
Automated Supply Transaction. This service is available to customers 24 / 7
–all day everyday.
Extensive presence in
African countries like Sudan, Tanzania, Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya, Burkina Faso,
European countries including Greece, Ukraine, Poland, Asian countries such as
UAE, Malaysia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Korea, Myanmar, and South American
countries including Cuba and Peru has introduced aircraft manufacturing
capacities of our country to the world. Everyday marketing and commercial
interactions with these countries will play a significant role in promoting
non-oil exports of the country.
With a global way of
thinking, establishment of a global marketing network and engaging in
e-commerce, HESA has active sales agents in Malaysia, Africa, South Korea,
Myanmar, UAE and even America. HESA is in the process of joining a consortium
comprising of big aircraft manufacturing companies like Airbus, Pilatus, HAL
of India and Turkey and believes itself to be highly successful in
interactions related to manufacturing airplane parts.
Now that the first
Iranian plane, Iran-140, which has been manufactured by HESA, is ready to join
domestic passenger and commercial air fleet and establishment of safe,
profitable and regular flights, HESA is playing its basic role in providing
4,000 flight seats to lessen serious shortage of flight seats in the country.
In this way, 80 planes will be manufactured within 10 years.
The important point is
that HESA plays its significant role for the armed forces by providing
necessary aerial systems to them. These include designing Maritime Patrol 140
cargo and tactical planes with ramp doors for carrying tactical wheeled
military cargoes, design and manufacture of unmanned boats, long-range
jet-propelled unmanned aerial vehicles with a flight range of over 450 km, a
velocity of more than 700 km per hour and a flight ceiling of 25,000 feet,
design and manufacture of training jet-propelled and propeller planes, combat
helicopters as well as their constant optimization and upgrading.
HESA has industrial and
commercial ties with most industries affiliated to the Ministry of Defense and
carries out joint marketing efforts with some of them. By referring to HESA,
esteemed customers will have access to a wide range of ultra-light,
two-passenger, four-passenger, 14-passenger and 52-passenger planes.