Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Rolls-Royce is to operate a jet engine testbed at the Alliance Airport in Fort Worth, Texas. Rolls-Royce has signed a lease to take over the entire 440,000 sq. ft. former Texas Aero Engine Services LLC (TAESL) facility, of which the testbed is a part. The testbed will...
EgyptAir has executed a firm agreement for the sale and purchase of 12 CS300 aircraft along with purchase rights for an additional 12 CS300 aircraft. EgyptAir's Letter of Intent (LOI) was previously announced on November 14 during the 2017 Dubai Air Show. "As...
Acumen Aviation has been appointed as the asset manager for two Boeing 737-800 aircraft. Both Boeing aircraft are on lease to an Asian airline and funded by TWC Aviation Capital. Image: Boeing
Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has signed an agreement with Thales to equip the airline’s new, incoming 12 Airbus A320Neo and 17 A321Neo aircraft with a cockpit package of Thales avionics solutions including the TopFlight and Flight...
Sabre Corporation has signed an expanded three-year partnership with Far Eastern Air Transport, opening a wider variety of travel options within Taiwan and internationally. Established in 1957, Far Eastern Air Transport operates services from Taiwan to Southeast Asia,...
HAECO ITM has reached an agreement with Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) to provide inventory technical management support for the airline’s Boeing 747-8 freighter fleet. The scope of the agreement includes component inventory access, component exchange, component...
GE Aviation and Praxair have opened a new facility for their PG Technologies business, which specializes in advanced coatings that enable jet engines to withstand higher temperatures and stresses. PG Technologies is a joint venture between Praxair Surface...
Russian airline Ural Airlines plans to optimize its flight operations and navigation processes using several IT solutions from Lufthansa Systems. The two companies recently signed a long-term contract to this effect. Ural Airlines has opted for NetLine products...
Lufthansa Technik AG has received a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for modifications on the Airbus A320 Family aircraft to fit them with second-generation "Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast" (ADS-B) transponders. Completion of this modern...
Final assembly of the newest member of the A330neo Family, the A330-800, has started and is on track for the first flight planned in mid-2018, says Airbus. The A330-800 complements the A330-900, the largest member of the A330neo Family. With its 242-tonne...
Bombardier Aerostructures and Engineering Services has been selected by Airbus as a supplier on a new engine nacelle programme for the Pratt & Whitney powered A320neo family of aircraft. Bombardier's Northern Ireland operations (Short Brothers) has been...
Sabre Corporation, the technology provider to the global travel industry, has entered into a new distribution agreement with Aviation Services Mongolia (ASM) to distribute the Sabre global distribution system (GDS) in Mongolia. In tandem with this, ASM has...