Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Bombardier is celebrating its 40th year of operations in Tucson, Arizona. Occupying almost 1 million square feet (92,900 square metres) of total hangar space, the Tucson Air Centre is the largest of Bombardier's nine Aircraft Service Centres and services both...
Alaska Airlines has broken ground on a new $40 million aircraft maintenance and engineering facility located at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. The design of the new 105,000-square-foot facility by Anchorage-based architect firm McCool Carlson Green...
HAECO Americas has commenced construction of its fifth hangar at the Piedmont Triad International (PTI) Airport. The investment to build the nearly 250,000 sq. ft. structure will total US$60 million and will add up to 500 new jobs at full capacity. The expansion...
Lufthansa Technik and Taiwan based airline China Airlines have comprehensively expanded their partnership by entering into a new long term agreement for component services (Total Component Support, TCS) for China Airlines Airbus A350 fleet. According to the contract,...
AAR has signed a power-by-the-hour (PBH) component inventory management and repair services agreement with Dubai-based flydubai. AAR will assume nose-to-tail management of components and repairs for flydubai’s Next-Generation Boeing 737-800 fleet, starting with 53...
On 1 August, HAECO Xiamen redelivered Japan Airlines' (JAL’s) first Boeing 777 aircraft awarded to the Company. The scope of work involved a heavy maintenance check, cabin reconfiguration and Wi-Fi modifications, which were completed on schedule and to the stringent...
FL Technics, a global aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services provider, has signed a new deal with Express Air Cargo to provide redelivery checks on two of the carrier’s 737-300s. Both aircraft have already arrived in the FL Technics maintenance centre in...
The HAECO Group has reported an attributable profit of HK$1,111 million for the first six months of 2016, which included a gain of HK$805 million on disposal of the interest of Hong Kong Aero Engine Services Limited (HAESL) in Singapore Aero Engine Services (SAESL)....
Ontic, a BBA Aviation company and the aerospace industry’s leading provider of ‘Extended Life Solutions’ for OEM legacy products, recently announced certification by the Thailand Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) for its Singapore facility. This certification is in...
The nose gear of Southwest Flight 149 failed when it was leaving the gate at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport as it was heading to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport at about 7:45 p.m. local time. All 126 passengers and...
TARMAC AEROSAVE, the European aircraft storage and recycling company, based in Tarbes (France) and Teruel (Spain), has obtained part-147 approval means that TARMAC AEROSAVE is now a maintenance training organisation. With Part-147 approval, TARMAC AEROSAVE has become...
STS Line Maintenance (STSLM), a division of STS Aviation Group, has opened a new line maintenance station in Nassau and will now provide on-call and scheduled aircraft services to all commercial and regional carriers at every airport throughout the Bahamas. The new...