There were two aircraft maintenance hangars at the first airport established between Yesilkoy and Sefakoy, by Mahmut Sevket Pasha  in 1912.

Turkkusu, which was established at Ankara Güvercinlik Airport, was giving aircraft revision services to National Airlines in 1935.

In 1945, maintenance of the DC-3 aircrafts were held at Ankara Etimesgut, Turkish Airforce Aircraft and Engine Factories.

In 1950, the Aircraft Factory in wihch different types of engine maintenance and repairs are held since 1940, transformed to Kayseri Aircraft Supply and Maintenance Center.

Yesilkoy International Airport, finished in 1953, had maintenance hangars witihin the facility.

The first civil aviation company in our country named National Airlines which was established in 1933, is re-organized in 21 May 1955 to carry all air transportation business in Turkey as Turkish Airlines.

In 1957, maintenance and revisions of three DC-3 aircrafts, within the fleet of 28 aircrafts, were made in Yesilkoy Shops. The facility, which also provided motor revision services, became a modern maintenance center using the most recent techniques and started to get orders from foreign aviation companies in a short while.

In 1959, an agreement is signed with Locheed Int., in order to transform maintenance shops into a technical maintenance base for Turkish Airlines, Turkish Air Force and foreign aviation companies. To run the aircraft maintenance and revision facility efficiently, 28 pilots, 9 engineers and 57 technicians were sent to take trainings in United States. Afterwards, 62 technicians were trained in our training facilities.

In the second half oy the year 1960 technical maintenance shops reached the capacity to make the maintenance and repairs of aircrafts with pistons and turboprop. For aircrafts; Viscount, P-27 and DC-3; all kinds of maintenance on the aircrafts and revisions over 50% of their components were held.

By end of the year 1963, our shops reached the international civil aviaiation standards in both equipment and technical resources, in order to give any maintenance, repair and revision services for aircraft bodies, motors and accessories.

In the year 1968, the Technical Management’s works have reached its top level; 15 aircrafts were given maintenance or revision services and near 70 components of DC-9 aircrafts were overhauled.

In 8 March 1973 FAA certificate (certificate nr: 820-1F) is taken to proove our facilities are at international standards; in order to serve Turkish civil aviation,  by our shops which are equipped with special tools bought with new investments and our experienced personnel with civil aviation licences.

95% of the constructions of engine test building, hangar, annex and shops, base maintenance shops and power plant; which all make up the new maintenance base of Turkish Airlines; are completed at the end of 1975.

Joint Aviation Association (JAA), found our Technical Maintenance and Flight Administration systems compatible with its regulations and rewarded Turkish Airlines with Joint Aviation Regulations (JAR) certificate in 1996. With this certificate, our technical maintenance facility became authorized by both FAA and JAA for giving maintenance service in international standards.

In June 1999, Second Maintenance Base Hangar; which has 13.000 m2 of closed area and 67.200 m2 annex section with the capability of giving maintenance and repair services to all aircrafts in Turkish Airlines fleet within international standards and all recent technologies; has utilized.

With the utilization of the Second Maintenance Base, continuously groving Turkish Airlines fleet’s maintenance and repair needs are fulfilled, while customer requests are compansated more, compared to the previous years. To raise the Company’s share in the market and to fulfill the increasing domestic and foreign customer requests, Aviation Maintenance, Repair and Modification Center (HABOM) project is developed.

Turkish Airlines; which holds the maintenance operations of its aircrafts in Turkey, with the Turkish people’s labor and technical experience since the first day of the Company’s establishment; has always grown by investing in the technical units and took actions parallel to the developments around the world. Regarding the modern administrative comprehension,  transforming the large functional units to independent organizations is examined as a strategy. As seen in other examples around the World; technical units have been re-organized as an independent public limited company; in order to increase efficiency, keeping up with sectoral developments and providing mro service for more customer aircrafts with high quality.

Turkish Technic Inc.; which is established in 23 May 2006 with 100% shares belonging to Turkish Airlines; has configured its organization in a short period of time. All projects that Turkish Airlines have started, foremostly HABOM, are continuing with the same particularity.  New projects such as Common enterprises with producer companies are developed by Turkish Technic for increasing our countries share in MRO market. Our company is continuously growing by living two values at the same time; the 75 years of Turkish Airline corporation culture and the excitement of being newly established.