Turkish Technic (Turkish Airlines Maintenance Center), is the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) center of Turkish Airlines. Third party airlines are also served. Turkish Technic is headquartered at Atatürk Airport (ISL) and owns a maintenance hangar at Istanbul Airport (IST) on the European side of Istanbul. However, a new complex built at Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (SAW) on the Asian (Anatolia) side of Istanbul, formerly named Turkish HABOM (HABOM being short for "Aviation MRO"), is poised to become the main center of operations. Turkish Technic in brief Turkish Technic was incorporated in 2006. It operates in three hangars for narrowbody and widebody airplanes and a VIP & light airplanes hangar in IST, in a total enclosed area of 130,000 m2 with a workforce of 3,000 employees. Approximately 1,800 of these are technicians and almost 1,300 of these technicians are licensed (LAE - Licensed Aircraft Engineers). The newly built facilities in SAW encompass a hangar for 11 single-aisle aircraft and a separate hangar for three long-haul airframes. The complex is a total enclosed area of 380,000 m2 with more than 3,100 employees. A separate narrowbody hangar exists in Esenboğa International Airport (ESB), Ankara. Turkish Technic is a member of IATP (International Airlines Technical Pool), ELMO (European Line Maintenance Organization), and Airbus MRO Network. Line maintenance stations exist at 24 domestic and 30 international airports. Turkish Technic's facilities Aircraft maintenance hangars and workshops Hangar #1 has a total enclosed area of 51,000 m2 and can accommodate 2 widebody (Airbus A310) and 3 narrowbody (Boeing 737-800) aircraft simultaneously. Hangar #2 has a total enclosed area of 80,000 m2 and can accommodate 3 widebody (2 ea. Airbus A340 and 1 ea. Airbus A310) and 4 narrowbody (Boeing 737-800) aircraft simultaneously. Hangar #3 was bought from MNG Teknik and has a separate painting facility. Maintenance capabilities for the Boeing 757 and Boeing 767 were also added with this acquisition. Non-destructive testing workshop Emergency equipment workshop Aircraft painting workshop Aircraft seating workshop Sheet metal, structural repair & composite workshop Cabin interior & textiles workshop Dry cleaning workshop Engine maintenance workshops Engine overhaul workshop APU overhaul workshop Engine & APU test cells Fuel systems workshop Manufacturing & repair workshops Electro-plating workshop Welding workshop Machining workshop Component maintenance workshops (Avionic Shops) Radio workshop Instruments workshop Electrical and battery workshop Automatic test equipment (ATE) workshop Calibration workshop Component maintenance workshops (Hydro-Mechanical Shops) Hydraulic workshop Mechanical workshop Electro-mechanical workshop Pneumatic