AJW Engines is to provide engine shop visit management services for Cameroon Airlines Corporation (Camair-Co). AJW will manage all aspects of the shop visit for two PW4060 engines. Camair-Co has also signed a lease agreement with AJW Leasing for a replacement PW4060...
MRO News Archive
Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
AJW Aviation to deliver power-by-the-hour for Air Méditerranée’s fleet of seven A321 aircraft
French ACMI, regular flight and charter airline, Air Méditerranée, has chosen AJW Aviation to provide full power-by-the-hour services for seven A321 Airbus aircraft. Four of the aircraft operate out of Paris CDG, two in Middle East and one in Moldova, and together...
Garuda Indonesia Inaugurates GMF Hangar 4
Garuda Maintenance Facilities (GMF) AeroAsia, a subsidiary of Garuda Indonesia, has completed the construction of Hangar 4, the world's biggest narrow body aircraft hangar with a maintenance capacity of up to 16 narrow body aircraft including one bay for aircraft...
ST Aerospace Arm acquires 50% stake in S-PRO
ST Aerospace Systems has acquired the remaining 50% stake in Singapore Precision Repair and Overhaul Pte Ltd (S-PRO), from Messier-Bugatti-Dowty (Safran), for a cash consideration of $8.15m. Following the acquisition, S-PRO will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of ST...
Ameco completes second A330 landing gear repair
Ameco completed A330 landing gear troubleshooting for one Chinese domestic customer at the end of August. This is its second such job since Ameco got related authorization from FAA, CAAC and EASA last year. As the first MRO provider in China to perform A330 landing...
Nepal Airlines chooses AJW Aviation for power-by-the-hour support for new A320 fleet
Nepal Airlines has chosen AJW Aviation to provide full power-by-the-hour services for its current fleet of A320s. As part of the long-term agreement AJW will also locate extensive main base kit at the Nepal Airlines’ facilities at Tribhuvan International Airport in...
HAECO completes Boeing 787-8 C-check
HAECO Group has completed its first C-check on a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner and redelivered the aircraft to a leading international airline in September. This marks HAECO as one of the first independent Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) service providers to perform...
MAEL to provide line maintenance support for GainJet Aviation
Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has secured a line maintenance technical handling agreement with GainJet Aviation. The agreement covers a full suite of line maintenance services for the Greek operator’s VIP Boeing 757-200 charter operation at Birmingham Airport in...
LAX aircraft collision
A United Airlines aircraft and an Alaska Airlines aircraft were involved in a minor collision at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday night. There were no injuries reported but the aircraft sustained damage. United Airlines Flight 1199 had just landed and...
Virgin Atlantic 747 dumps fuel and diverts to Gatwick
Virgin Atlantic Flight VS075, enroute to Orlando from Manchester, UK airport was forced to divert to London Gatwick after it developed a “technical issue”. The airline described it as a “precautionary diversion” to enable it to investigate the issue. The 747 aircraft...
Technical fault causes Ryanair aircraft to divert
A Ryanair aircraft travelling from Chania International Airport Greece to Eindhoven in the Netherlands diverted to land in Frankfurt after declaring an emergency. Flight FR5842 experienced cabin pressure issues, which forced it to land.
TransAsia ATR 72-500 makes emergency landing
A TransAsia Airways ATR 72-500 aircraft was forced to land with only one engine at Magong Airport after the other reported an abnormality. The pilots shut down the engine and successfully operated the other one to land safely.