Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) has announced that further to our announcement on June 8, 2012, Vision Technologies Aerospace Incorporated (VT Aerospace) has received approval from the United States Bankruptcy Court in the District of Delaware...
UTair Aviation has awarded Shanghai Aviation Services, based at PuDong International Airport in Shanghai, a contract to maintain its eight 767-200ERs. Boeing Shanghai signed two agreements with UTair for maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services for avionics...
Repairs on the Qantas A380 aircraft that experienced a mid-flight explosion in November 2010 have been completed in Singapore and the aircraft has returned to Sydney. Repair costs were around million $157 million, which CEO Alan Joyce stated was “probably the biggest...
Singapore Airlines and China Southern Airlines both experienced problems with their respective A380 aircraft yesterday. An A380 operated by Singapore Airlines and flying from Singapore to Frankfurt was required to return to Singapore after one of its four engines...
Air New Zealand found several cracks in the cockpit windows of one ATR aircraft, operated by its subsidiary Mount Cook Airlines, which forced it to ground all 11 ATRs in the fleet. About 60 flights were cancelled affecting about 3000 customers. Two of the planes had...
Qantas has confirmed that it will not move existing heavy maintenance jobs offshore but it also refused to act on union demands to bring A380 maintenance back to Australia. Qantas is also pushing ahead with plans to consolidate its three Australian operations, an...
MAS GMR AERO TECHNIC (MGAT), a 100% wholly owned subsidiary of MAS GMR AEROSPACE ENGINEERING (MGAE) has been formally inaugurated by Sri Ajit Singh, Hon'ble Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Govt. of India in the presence of Sri S.Jaipal Reddy, Hon'ble Union Minister...
Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company’s (HAECO) landing gear overhaul facility, Taikoo (Xiamen) Landing Gear Services Co. (TALSCO) in Xiamen, signed a contract China Airlines for the overhaul of seventeen ship sets of Boeing 747-400 landing gears. TALSCO will...
Lufthansa Technik Philippines, a joint venture between Lufthansa Technik (51%) and the Philippine MacroAsia Corporation (49%), has opened a third hangar in Manila to serve C-checks and modifications on A380s. The $30million hangar is 8,500 square meters with a height...
An Air Philippines A320 aircraft overshot the 2,300-meter long runway at the Kalibo International Airport in Aklan, Philippines shortly after landing yesterday morning. There were no injuries. The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said that the...
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has temporary removed some A380s from operation while it checks for wing cracks following the directive issued by European Aviation Safety Agency to inspect the A380s within six weeks. SIA had six aircraft that required checking within four...
The European Aviation Safety Agency order for immediate visual checks on A380s after cracking found in recent inspection of aircraft, including one operated by Emirates, was found to be more serious than the original problem discovered by Qantas. Despite this EASA...