Exhibit 10.15A

                      FIRST AMENDMENT TO LEASE AGREEMENT


     This First Amendment (this "Amendment") is entered into as of 
December 15, 1997 by and between Industrial Centers Corp. ("Lessor") and 
Hawker Pacific Aerospace (formerly Hawker Pacific, Inc.), a California 
corporation ("Lessee"), in order to amend that certain Lease Agreement, dated 
March 31, 1997 (the "Lease"), between Lessor and Lessee as herein set forth:

     12. ASSIGNMENT AND SUBLETTING. Section 12.1(b) is hereby amended to read 
in its entirety as follows:

     "(b) A change in control of Lessee shall constitute an assignment 
requiring consent. The transfer, on a cumulative basis of twenty-five percent 
(25%) or more of the voting control of Lessee, other than any bona-fide 
underwritten public offering of Lessee's securities registered under the 
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any securities issued pursuant to 
Lessee's employee stock option plans, shall constitute a change in control 
for this purpose."

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Amendment is executed as of the date first 
above written.

                                       LESSOR:
                                       Industrial Centers Corp.


                                       By: /s/ Bradley D. Howard
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                                       Name:   Bradley D. Howard
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                                       Title:  President
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                                       LESSEE:
                                       HAWKER PACIFIC AEROSPACE


                                       By: /s/ Brian S. Aune
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                                           Brian S. Aune
                                           Chief Financial Officer