Work is nearing completion on what is believed to be the world’s largest aircraft hangar at Dubai International Airport following a major logistical operation to deliver giant doors built in the UK.

Due for completion in early summer, the Dubai Airwing Hangar has eight sets of doors which are 26 m high and together span 570 m, the length of almost six football pitches.
The doors are being designed, manufactured and installed by UK-based Jewers Doors Limited after the company won a contract worth Dh20 million at last year’s Airport Build & Supply Exhibition in Dubai.
Delivering the huge Esavian doors, manufactured and partly assembled at Jewers Doors’ headquarters in England, was a major logistical challenge, says a company spokesman. In February, 10 shipping containers of specialist hangar door equipment and drive units were sent to Dubai from the UK, with a further 10 containers of special steel track section being sent from Belgium and Luxembourg.
Sixty tonnes of special aluminium alloy cladding was shipped from France, with a further 60 tonnes being sent from South Africa followed by power supply systems from Holland and high specification nuts and bolts from Germany and Spain.
Jewers Doors won the contract after successfully building doors for a new Emirates Engineering hangar in Dubai to house the Airbus A380, superjumbo. Emirates Airline has ordered 45 of the new A380s.