MRO News Archive

Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world

Zone: Americas

Bombardier debuts new ATMOSPHÈRE cabin

Bombardier Commercial Aircraft has unveiled the interior of the first CRJ Series aircraft with the new ATMOSPHÈRE cabin design on the opening day of the Farnborough International Air Show. Bombardier showcased the new cabin alongside launch operator Delta Air Lines...

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GE Aviation and Teradata expand partnership

GE Aviation will become the exclusive provider of Teradata products and services for commercial aviation markets, providing the airlines with a single, comprehensive framework that combines high-performance analytics in the cloud from Teradata with edge-connectivity...

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United Express aircraft smoking incident

  Passengers were taken off a United Express E170 aircraft at Reagan National Airport this weekend, after smoke was detected in the cockpit. Airport police and fire crews responded to the scene but there were no reported injuries. United flight 6122 was taxiing...

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NMA rumours swell as Farnborough airshow nears

  Delta chief executive Ed Bastian has again reiterated the need for a new middle of the market aircraft (NMA) and hinted in a recent speech that the airline would be interested in becoming the launch company for a new Boeing aircraft. Also dubbed the 797, engine...

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Ascent expands aerospace robotics

  Ascent Aerospace, which provides aircraft assembly line integration services, has added Exechon Enterprises’ parallel kinematic robots to its portfolio of manufacturing automation solutions. Exechon’s Parallel Kinematic Machine (PKM) technology offers the...

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Southwest Airlines reaches agreement with AMFA

  Southwest Airlines has reached a tentative agreement with the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), which represents the company's 2,400 employees in the aircraft mechanics and related workgroup. The agreement gives employees improved compensation, a...

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Boeing reveals its hypersonic passenger aircraft

  Boeing has debuted its first passenger-carrying hypersonic concept at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics conference in Atlanta this week. The passenger concept could have military or commercial applications but Boeing says that this design...

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AI company Noodle.ai raises $35million in Series B funding

  Noodle.ai, which provides enterprise AI applications, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round, bringing its fundraising total to $51 million. The funds will be used to expand the company’s suite of applications, which help key industries predict the...

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NASA Technologies Significantly Reduce Aircraft Noise

A series of NASA flight tests has successfully demonstrated technologies that achieve a significant reduction in the noise generated by aircraft and heard by communities near airports. The Acoustic Research Measurement (ARM) flights, which concluded in May, at NASA's...

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Willis adds CFM56-7B fan blade inspection capability

  Willis Asset Management in conjunction with its NDT Partner have now added the capability to support CFM56-7B operators with onsite removal, installation and ultrasonic inspection of fan blades in order to satisfy compliance with the recently published EASA and...

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