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A Detroit-based company has relocated to Melbourne with plans to install wifi on commercial planes. That requires a brand new safety system.

Inside AeroMod International's 83,000 square foot hangar, a state of the art fire suppression system that can fill the area with four feet of oxygen-ridding foam in under two minutes.

AeroMod International signed a $6 million hangar lease with the airport earlier this year -- bringing with it 100 high paying jobs.

The brand new safety system powered by four large diesel engines.

"We have a rapid installation process, some of the aircraft will be in here 21 hours. Some up to five days," said Gary Girard, AeroMod president.

That means many of the planes will still have fuel in the tanks when they are worked on inside.

The company is hoping it doesn't have to use the sea of foam in the future, but with 200 fully-fueled planes coming in before the end of the year, you have to be careful.

The foam is soapy and harmless to people, but effective in putting out intense jet-fueled fires.

"It goes by temperature, so if it gets to a certain temperature, the sprinklers come on, if it gets higher due to an accelerant like jet fuel, it comes on," said Girard.

The foam dissipates in about a day.

The first plane to be modified in the hangar will be coming in the first week of September.