Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
A small AN-24 aircraft carrying 45 passengers skidded past the landing strip and overturned in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Wednesday. Four people were killed, two were injured and the fate of two others remains unknown. The aircraft, which had departed...
Summer 2013 will see talks begin between the EU and the United States on producing a free-trade agreement that would give birth to the largest free trade zone on the planet, significant enough to add 0.5% or €86bn to overall EU GDP and 0.4% or €65bn to the US economy...
ST Aerospace has completed its investment of 35% equity interest in Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH (EADS EFW). The investment was completed following the receipt of regulatory approvals and fulfilment of customary conditions precedent. Following this completion, ST Aerospace...
Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL), the aircraft maintenance provider, has announced plans to significantly expand its operations with a new 110,000 sq. ft state-of-the-art maintenance facility, creating 150 new jobs, with the potential for a further 150, at...
UN aviation body ICAO will recommend creating a cyber security task force at a meeting next week in Canada. A task force is needed due to an increasing reliance on interconnected IT systems with operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Linux, and protocols such...
Parker Aerospace and GE Aviation have formed a 50:50 joint venture, Advanced Atomization Technologies, to develop and manufacture engine-fuel nozzles for commercial aircraft. The company will be based in the Parker Gas Turbine Fuel Systems Division facility in Clyde,...
UN aviation body ICAO will recommend creating a cyber security task force at a meeting next week in Canada. A task force is needed due to an increasing reliance on interconnected IT systems with operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Linux, and protocols such...
A German company, ICM, has won the bid Ethiopian Airlines put up for the construction a new cargo terminal at the airline’s hub at the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. Tewolde Gebremariam, Ethiopian CEO, said that a German and Chinese company has been bidding....
Airbus today releases the latest instalment of the Future by Airbus, its vision for sustainable aviation in 2050 and beyond. For the first time the vision looks beyond aircraft design to how the aircraft is operated both on the ground and in the air in order to meet...
UTair has chosen CFM56-5B engines to power its order for 20 A321s. Delivery will begin in 2013. Utair has also signed up for a long-term rate-per-flight hour agreement for 40 engines.
Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. (AEI) has been selected by Aviation Capital Group (ACG) to provide one B737-400SF 11 Pallet Configuration conversion. The speculative conversion is expected to be completed in mid-November 2012 at which time the freighter will be available...
GKN Aerospace has won a contract from Triumph Aerostructures – Vought Aircraft Division, a subsidiary of Triumph Group, Inc., covering the design, build and supply of composite winglets and ailerons for the Bombardier Global 7000 and Global 8000 ultra-long-range...