Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Wesco Aircraft has renewed an agreement with Rockwell Collins that renews Wesco’s existing contract to provide chemical management services to 15 Rockwell Collins sites in the United States and Mexico and expands the offering over time to 12 additional Rockwell...
Thomas Global Systems’ TFD-8601 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved model list supplemental type certificate (AML-STC) has been expanded to include a range of Proline II equipped Gulfstream, Bombardier, Beechcraft & Dassault aircraft. In addition...
oneworld has launched a new platform for linking up to the airline alliance. The first airline to join in the new capacity as a oneworld connect partner will be Fiji Airways. oneworld connect is the first new membership platform unveiled by oneworld since the...
Vietnam Airlines and Sabre Corporation have signed an expanded agreement where the carrier will leverage the breadth of SabreSonic, Sabre’s passenger service system (PSS) that Vietnam Airlines is now operating on, to improve its retailing, distribution and...
Boeing technicians have voted in favour of forming the first collective bargaining unit at Boeing’s factory in South Carolina. The “micro-unit” will represent fewer than 180 flight-line workers, a small subset of the 7,000 or so workers who build the 787 in...
Zhejiang Loong Airlines has taken delivery of the first LEAP-1A-powered A320neo aircraft from the Airbus Final Assembly facility in Tianjin, China. The airline will be the first in Greater China to operate the advanced engine/aircraft combination. “We are very...
Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) has received several bids from engine manufacturers for its C929 widebody passenger aircraft. Reuters reports that bids have been made by General Electric; Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce, although other bids...
Embraer’s Legacy 450 medium cabin business jet set a new speed record on a recent flight between Portland, Maine in the United States and Farnborough in the United Kingdom, according to the U.S. National Aeronautic Association (NAA). The record-setting flight...
Embraer has selected Viasat Ka-band technology to power the medium cabin Legacy 450 and Legacy 500 business jets’ high-capacity high-speed data connectivity. Embraer becomes the first business aircraft manufacturer to offer line-fit high-capacity high-speed...
Following the start of final assembly work in April, ANA’s (All Nippon Airways) first A380 has completed airframe assembly and today made its debut in Toulouse. With the ANA logo on its vertical tail, the aircraft has moved to an outdoor station where...
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft plans to donate a CS100 aircraft to the École Nationale d'Aérotechnique (ÉNA), a school affiliated with Édouard-Montpetit CEGEP, to be used for the purpose of education and training. With this donation, ÉNA becomes the world's...
Bombardier Business Aircraft has unveiled two additions to its business jet fleet: the Global 5500 and Global 6500 aircraft, with ranges of 5,700 and 6,600 nautical miles, respectively, top speeds of Mach 0.90 and Bombardier's smooth ride technology....