Editing Tinker Air Force Base (section)

====Maintenance Repair and Overhaul Technology Center (MROTC)====
The first of the public/private partnerships is The Oklahoma [[Maintenance, repair, and operations|Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul]] Technology Center (MROTC),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.okcommerce.gov/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=700&Itemid=286|title=MROTC, Boeing Agreement Finalized; New Development Taking Flight " Commerce " Oklahoma Department of Commerce|date=12 January 2006|publisher=Okcommerce.gov|access-date=25 March 2012}}</ref> managed by Battelle Oklahoma, owned by Oklahoma Industries Authority (OIA),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.battelle.org/news/03/8-4-03Battelle-Oklahoma%20Center.stm|title=Battelle News|date=4 August 2003|publisher=Battelle.org|access-date=25 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319221152/http://www.battelle.org/news/03/8-4-03Battelle-Oklahoma%20Center.stm|archive-date=19 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> and partners with the Department of Defense to provide a national center for technical solutions{{clarify|date=February 2017}} to aging commercial and military aircraft.  The MROTC<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aeroeoc.com/|title=Eastern Oklahoma County MRO and Aerospace Partnership|publisher=Aeroeoc.com|access-date=25 March 2012|archive-date=26 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326014253/http://www.aeroeoc.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref> is a {{convert|370|acre|km2|adj=on}} [[Maintenance, repair, and operations|MRO]] facility, on the southeast side of Tinker AFB, sharing runways and security with the base.  The MROTC complex is planned as a major military and commercial aircraft facility with 17 hangars and more than one million square feet of related industrial space and education and training facilities.  The facility currently houses three hangars, one leased by Boeing (designed to accommodate Boeing 767-400 class aircraft), a second hangar for 767 for lease, and a third hangar designed to accommodate Boeing 707-300 class aircraft.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gisplanning.net/photos/okcity/MROTC%20Boeing%20Flyer.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=13 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227190712/http://www.gisplanning.net/photos/okcity/MROTC%20Boeing%20Flyer.pdf |archive-date=27 February 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>