Turbine Services & Solutions (TS&S), a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider for gas turbines and driven equipment wholly owned by Mubadala Investment Company, and Atlas Copco, a world-leading provider of sustainable productivity solutions,...
MRO News Archive
Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
S7 Technics – the new name of the ENGINEERING Holding
ENGINEERING Holding, the Russian aviation MRO service provider, has announced its transition to umbrella brand S7. As a result, the holding itself and its subsidiaries S7 Engineering (with bases at Domodedovo and Mineralnye Vody airports) and Sibir Technic...
AFI KLM E&M and Sabena technics Inaugurate Joint Workshop
Seven months after finalizing their partnership agreement, AFI KLM E&M and Sabena technics announced the opening of Singapore Component Solutions (SCS) with an official ceremony during the Singapore Airshow. The joint venture is helmed by Co-CEOs Jacques...
StandardAero awarded eight-year agreement to provide PW127M engine MRO services for Far Eastern Air Transport fleet of ATR72-600s
StandardAero was recently awarded an exclusive, eight-year agreement to provide Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) PW127M engine maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) services for Far Eastern Air Transport Corporation’s (FAT) fleet of ATR72-600 aircraft. FAT...
Lufthansa Technik Shenzhen approved service provider for COMAC
Chinese aircraft manufacturer COMAC (Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China) has officially approved Lufthansa Technik Shenzhen as their first MRO service provider in China for ARJ21 engine nacelles and components. Prior to the approval, the Lufthansa Technik...
ST Aerospace secures five-year exclusive contract from Lufthansa Cargo for MD-11 heavy maintenance support
ST Aerospace has secured a five-year exclusive MD-11 Heavy Maintenance Support contract worth US$30m (approximately S$39m) from Lufthansa Cargo. With the agreement, ST Aerospace will become the sole service provider supporting Lufthansa Cargo’s MD-11 fleet in both...
UAM acquires an aircraft and engine portfolio from Airbus Asset Management
Universal Asset Management (UAM) has completed the acquisition of a portfolio of Airbus A340 airframes and engines from Airbus Asset Management for trading and component support. The portfolio, which includes three Airbus A340-300 airframes, one Airbus A340-500...
Xiamen Airlines and GE sign MoU to strengthen strategic cooperation
Xiamen Airlines has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with GE to further strengthen the strategic cooperation between the parties. Zhao Dong, President of Xiamen Airlines and Bill Fitzgerald, Vice President and General Manager of GE Aviation's Commercial...
2,000 Aircraft Maintenance Engineers & Technicians to be trained in Shannon
The Atlantic Aviation Institute, an EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) Part 147 approved subsidiary of Atlantic Aviation Group, has this week announced that they are to train over 2,000 national and international Aircraft Maintenance Engineers and...
AirAsia X and AFI KLM E&M extend A330 component support contract
Long-standing partners AirAsia X and AFI KLM E&M have extended the Malaysian budget carrier's A330-300 component support contract, originally signed in 2007. The new agreement involves extending the exclusive component support provided by AFI KLM E&M...
“Hangar of the future” getting closer to enhance aircraft maintenance
Airbus will showcase its “Hangar of the Future” (HoF) at the Singapore Air Show. HoF is a project to digitise and automate maintenance activities to increase the overall maintenance process efficiency. HoF combines the use of innovative technologies and smart,...
MTU Maintenance starts virtual reality pilot project
MTU Maintenance has started an augmented reality pilot project at its facility in Berlin-Brandenburg. The project goes by the name “Inspection 4.0” and aims to improve knowledge management in the shop. Inspection 4.0 has two main goals. The first is to...