Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
GE Aviation and HNA Group are forming a maintenance, repair and overhaul joint venture for GE CF34-10s. The joint venture will be based at Tianjin and provide MRO services for GE CF34-10A and CF34-10E engines. HNA Group will operate the JV, with technical support and...
Boeing and Air China confirmed this week that the initial release of Boeing’s Airplane Health Management (AHM) system is now active on 40 aircraft in the airline’s 737NG fleet, providing information on the condition during flight operations.
Air France-KLM reported it had purchased a 26% stake in Mumbai based Max Aerospace and Aviation Ltd. Under the terms of the agreement, Air France-KLM and Max AeroSpace will jointly build an aircraft component repair facility.
VSMPO-Avisma Corporation has now been confirmed as being in compliance with the requirements of Pratt & Whitney Canada. Pratt & Whitney Canada approved this decision after an audit this month. During the audit they met with the specialists of the technical...
Triumph Aviation Services Asia, based in Bangkok, has received approval from Boeing to provide maintenance, repair and overhaul services for the CFM56-7 engine thrust reversers on the Boeing Next-Generation 737 aircraft. Triumph was awarded a three-year contract to...
A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 aircraft enroute to Paris Beauvais in France from Seville, developed a problem 20nm northwest of Madrid’s Barajas Airport and was forced to shut down an engine. The aircraft burned off fuel before making a safe landing on Barajas’ runway 90...
AFI KLM E&M and Indian Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) firm Max Aerospace, have formed a strategic partnership agreement to establish an Indian facility jointly developed with Max Aerospace in India. The deal gives AFI KLM E&M a solid position in the...
Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners (GSP) has signed a five-year Engine Management Program agreement with Bangladeshi carrier GMG Airlines for its current fleet of PW4060 and JT8D-200 engines. The agreement also covers any future aircraft models GMG Airlines...
Rolls-Royce is busy preparing a replacement program for the component found to be defective on the A380 Trent 900 engines. The manufacturer will need at least 80 of the part, known as Module 51, to repair the current fleet of affected planes. However this number does...
State aircraft producer PT Dirgantara Indonesia has announced the construction of a new $440,000 hangar to handle the maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) for Sukhoi superjets. Sri Jaka Heri Kusnanto, Dirgantara engineering director said: “we already have one...
Royal Jordanian has signed an exclusive contract with the MTU Maintenance Hannover for the maintenance of 26 V2500 engines for its fleet of A320-family aircraft. The contract will run until March 2014. MTU Maintenance Berlin-Brandenburg, a sister company of MTU...
BBA Aviation has stated it expects to outperform its markets and was comfortable with its business growth going forward. The increase in flying activity has boosted demand for its aircraft maintenance services and BBA Aviation says it is confident it will post strong...