Companies in Talks to Build Helicopter Factory

A U.S.-Korean joint venture is in talks with the government to build a helicopter manufacturing plant and a training facility for helicopter pilots and mechanics, an aviation official and a company representative said this week. Richard Pak, a representative of South Korean firm Samik Bio Energy Co. Ltd., said the company hopes to construct the facilities near the country’s unused Battambang or Koh Kong provincial airports. “Our main project is [to] build helicopter manufactur[ing] factory and training school for helicopter [pilots] and training engineer and helicopter mechanic,” Mr. Pak wrote in an email, adding that all the necessary technology and “professional manpower” would be brought from Korea. …

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