Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Rhinestahl Customer Tooling Solutions (CTS), the aircraft engine tooling and ground support equipment provider, has been selected by GE to become one of its authorized engine tooling licensees for the GE9X engine program. This agreement further solidifies the strong...
AAR has signed a long-term Repair and Overhaul License agreement along with a Parts Supply agreement with Honeywell Aerospace. AAR will be providing repairs of over 1,800 Honeywell base part number and line replacements unit (LRU) repair items in AAR’s New York and...
Bombardier Services Corporation and PSA Airlines of Vandalia, Ohio have signed a three-year extension to the parties' heavy maintenance agreement. Under this contract, heavy maintenance tasks for the airline's fleet of Bombardier CRJ200, CRJ700 and CRJ900...
ST Aerospace has secured a letter of intent for a contract from Air Canada to perform interior reconfiguration on part of the airline’s A330-300 fleet. The new cabin interiors for Air Canada’s A330-300 fleet will be harmonised with its Boeing 787 aircraft. Air...
MTU Maintenance Canada and Lockheed Martin have signed two contracts covering the maintenance, repair and overhaul of CF6-50C2 engines as well as accessory repair for the engines. MTU Maintenance Canada is the MTU Maintenance group’s center of excellence for engine...
Bombardier has closed its previously announced offering of 168,000,000 Class B shares (subordinate voting) at a purchase price of Cdn$3.80 per share (the Offering), for aggregate gross proceeds of Cdn$638.4 million. The Offering was underwritten by a syndicate of...
Rhinestahl Customer Tooling Solutions (CTS) has been selected by Sunwing Airlines to be its exclusive LEAP-1B engine stand and tooling provider to support the airline’s fleet of Boeing 737 Max 8 airplanes. This agreement marks 42 out of 51 LEAP Entry Into Service...
Philippine Airlines has signed a landmark agreement with Amadeus to deliver an extensive transformation of the airline’s core technology systems. Philippine Airlines will adopt the full Amadeus Altéa Suite, a complete Passenger Service System that aims to...
Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. (AEI) has redelivered two B737-400SF freighter conversions to Vx Capital Partners (Vx). The first aircraft (MSN 28887) was modified by KF Aerospace and the second aircraft (MSN 25376) was modified by Flightstar Aircraft Services. In...
The GE9XTM engine lifted off on March 13 under wing of GE Aviation's 747 flying testbed in Victorville, California, for its first flight test. The engine that will power Boeing's new 777X aircraft took to the air around 10:40 a.m. Pacific standard time and flew...
Embraer delivered 23 commercial jets and 50 executive jets (32 light / 18 large) in the fourth quarter of 2017, and in 2017 delivered 101 commercial jets and 109 executive (72 light / 37 large) jets, meeting Guidance for 2017. Revenues in 4Q17 reached US$...
Jet Midwest, an aviation parts provider, has purchased one A321-200 aircraft. The ex-Ural Airlines aircraft has entered the dismantle process in Kansas City, Missouri, and is expected for completion by the end of March. All inventory, including nacelles from the...