MANILA, Philippines —Philippines’s assembled RP-S512 plane is now being promoted by the Department
of Science of Technology as the artwork for the growth potential of the
aviation sector. The locally assembled plane comes in light sport
design and was advertised by a local manufacturing company.
The RP-S512 is a two-seater is assembled by Famous Secret
Precision Machining, Inc. (FSPMI) which is a local aerospace manufacturer.
According to FSPMI marketing head, Jun Ramos, they have the full confidence that the
Philippine’s aviation manufacturing industry will fly in the near term hoping the country to be the next plane
manufacturing spot for airospace for the next two years.
Philippines has increasing potential for the aerospace
manufacturing as various big players in the industry have been recently built
the Aerospace Association of the Philippines. Ramos said that for their company
alone, they are getting high demands so they are likely to increase their
production to produce half percent of
their manufacturing in the next five years.
The (DOST) Metals and
Industry Research and Development Center (DOST-MIRDC) at present, is giving full support to other local aviation
manufacturers in attaining quality assurance standards.
Lina Afable, DOST-MIRDC
chief of the technology information section, said that the training program
already started last year and now have about 8 running companies. There is a also a greater
possible for this industry to produce more jobs for the Filipinos.
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