Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Rolls-Royce has developed a redesigned intermediate pressure compressor blade which addresses durability issues on Trent 1000 Package C engines. This blade has now been certified by both the Federal Aviation Administration and the European Aviation Safety Agency. The...
Spirit AeroSystems plans to expand operations at its Tulsa, Okla., site by hiring about 250 employees and investing more than $80 million in capital projects to support fuselage manufacturing and assembly work. The multi-year expansion project, which begins in 2019,...
Rolls-Royce is celebrating the delivery of the 2,000th Trent 700. Earlier this year Rolls-Royce celebrated the Trent 700 completing its 50 millionth flying hour, the equivalent to flying around the world more than one million times. The Trent 700 was the first member...
After a common and shared journey with Swiss-AS, Evergreen Aviation Technologies Corp (EGAT) has successfully accomplished its go-live with AMOS. EGAT, as the key development partner of Swiss-AS for the AMOS MRO Edition, has significantly influenced the realization of...
Pratt & Whitney will further expand its global network of providers that maintain the GTF engine to include five additional repair suppliers that will support the PW1100G-JM engine. FAG Aerospace (Schaeffler), American Cladding Technologies, Tube Processing, MDS...
TAT Group has entered into exclusive negotiations with the investment companies Sagard, Bpifrance and TowerBrook in order to sell them its majority interest in its subsidiary Sabena technics, the aircraft maintenance and modification provider. The sale should be...
Aegean Airlines has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Pratt & Whitney to power up to 62 Airbus A320neo Family Aircraft with GTF Engines. Pratt & Whitney will also provide Aegean with engine maintenance through a long-term service agreement. Dimitris...
Acumen Aviation has launched SPARTA.AERO, its new asset management IT platform, which platform promotes security, cloud connectivity and intelligence and is combined with sector experience to produce “the most comprehensive, intuitive and frictionless approach to...
Rolls-Royce leadership team delivered confidently on Friday morning (June 16) the full details of its restructuring, cost savings, a 15% return on invested capital and near-term ambition to exceed £1bn in free cash flow by 2020 at an analysts’ capital markets briefing...
The latest edition of MRO Global is now available to view here. This Spring 2018 issue features a closer look at how firms can better leverage data analytics, the future trends impacting the MRO market, analysis of the European and Chinese markets, with a series of...
The UK air traffic management service provider, NATS, has announced it has invested in Aireon, the company pioneering a space-based air traffic surveillance service. Through a network of 66 low earth orbiting Iridium NEXT satellites, AireonSM will monitor the...
Embraer Commercial Aviation market forecast for the Asia Pacific region estimates airlines will take delivery of 3,010 new aircraft in the segment up to 150-seats over the next 20 years, representing 29% of the worldwide demand for the segment, in the period....