Aviation maintenance and engineering company PEMCO World Air Services (PEMCO), a wholly owned subsidiary of Air Transport Services Group, has launched its Passenger-to-FlexCombi and Passenger-to-Freighter conversion programs for the Boeing Next Generation 737-700...
MRO News Archive
Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Monarch Aircraft Engineering welcomes back SmartLynx
Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL), the engineering division of Monarch, has signed a line maintenance technical handling agreement with SmartLynx. The agreement, which commences this summer, covers a full suite of line maintenance services to support the...
Satair Group and VAS Aero Services enter into a new strategic cooperation
Satair Group, an Airbus wholly-owned subsidiary, has entered into a new strategic services agreement with VAS Aero Services, a global leader in aviation logistics and aftermarket services, to support Satair Group with servicing, certification, warehousing and...
Lufthansa Technik Partners with Innovative Solutions & Support to distribute and install flat panel display systems world wide
Innovative Solutions & Support has entered into an agreement with Lufthansa Technik to partner as a distributor and installation center for Innovative Solutions & Support's (IS&S) Cockpit/IP Flat Panel Display System (FPDS) for Classic Series Boeing 737...
MTU Maintenance in 2016
In 2016, MTU Maintenance, the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) arm of MTU Aero Engines, signed independent deals with a contract volume of $2.2 billion with the program families CF34, CFM56, and LM industrial gas turbines (IGTs) enjoying particular success....
IKHANA Aircraft Services announces Trans Maldivian Airways to Re-Life™ one of their DHC-6-300 Twin Otters and receives PMA on the Fuselage
IKHANA Aircraft Services (IKHANA) has announced that Trans Maldivian Airways (TMA) has chosen to Re-Life a DHC-6-300 Twin Otter as approved in accordance with IKHANA’s RWMI DHC-6 Re-Life Fuselage Supplemental Type Certificate (STC). “TMA operates the largest...
Bonus Tech Tears Down First CF34 Engines
Bonus Tech recently carried out its first complete teardown of a General Electric CF34 engine to become the first operator in North America with a full in-house capability for removing, disassembling, tagging, and re-packaging the entire array of current aero engines,...
Successful GEnx-1B Correlation Tests in the AFI KLM E&M Test Cell Zephyr
AFI KLM E&M's engine test cell unit at Paris-CDG airport successfully carried out a series of GEnx-1B correlation tests. For almost a week, a stable performance engine, provided by KLM, was used in the test cell for the correlation tests. The correlation consists...
Aero Norway achieves UAE GCAA CAR 145 Maintenance Organisation Approval
Norway-based engine MRO facility Aero Norway AS has been granted UAE GCAA CAR 145 Maintenance Organisation Approval. The engine MRO centre is now multi-release FAA, EASA, TCCA, CAAC and GCAA certified. GCAA certification allows Aero Norway to carry out maintenance of...
Singapore Airlines chooses Mobil Jet Oil 387
ExxonMobil has announced that Mobil JetTM Oil 387, a synthetic High Performance Capability (HPC) turbine engine oil, will be used in all of Singapore Airlines’ aircraft. “Singapore Airlines’ decision to use Mobil Jet Oil 387 across its entire fleet is a powerful...
AEI adds Flightstar Aircraft Services as authorized conversion centre
Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. (AEI) has selected Jacksonville, Florida-based Flightstar Aircraft Services, LLC as an authorized conversion centre. The current success of AEI’s passenger-to-freighter conversion products, which include the B737-400SF, MD80SF, CRJ200 SF...
Locatory.com introduces secure online payments for aircraft parts procurement
Locatory.com, an aviation IT company primarily acting as an aircraft parts locator, has launched secure online payments for its spare aircraft parts trading platform. The new service allows all members of Locatory.com’s aircraft parts marketplace not only to search,...