ST Aerospace has been granted two Supplemental Type Certificates (STCs) for its Boeing 757-200SF passenger-to-freighter (PTF) conversion programme from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) and Transport Canada respectively. The STCs allow ST Aerospace to...

A Qantas flight from Frankfurt to Sydney was grounded in Singapore when a fault was found in its hydraulics system. A spokesperson for Qantas said pilots had not noticed the fault during the flight from Germany but the problem was found when engineers performed their...

GE Aviation and HNA Group are forming a maintenance, repair and overhaul joint venture for GE CF34-10s. The joint venture will be based at Tianjin and provide MRO services for GE CF34-10A and CF34-10E engines. HNA Group will operate the JV, with technical support and...

Boeing and Air China confirmed this week that the initial release of Boeing’s Airplane Health Management (AHM) system is now active on 40 aircraft in the airline’s 737NG fleet, providing information on the condition during flight operations.

Air France-KLM reported it had purchased a 26% stake in Mumbai based Max Aerospace and Aviation Ltd. Under the terms of the agreement, Air France-KLM and Max AeroSpace will jointly build an aircraft component repair facility.

Triumph Aviation Services Asia, based in Bangkok, has received approval from Boeing to provide maintenance, repair and overhaul services for the CFM56-7 engine thrust reversers on the Boeing Next-Generation 737 aircraft. Triumph was awarded a three-year contract to...

Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners (GSP) has signed a five-year Engine Management Program agreement with Bangladeshi carrier GMG Airlines for its current fleet of PW4060 and JT8D-200 engines. The agreement also covers any future aircraft models GMG Airlines...

State aircraft producer PT Dirgantara Indonesia has announced the construction of a new $440,000 hangar to handle the maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) for Sukhoi superjets. Sri Jaka Heri Kusnanto, Dirgantara engineering director said: “we already have one...

BBA Aviation has stated it expects to outperform its markets and was comfortable with its business growth going forward. The increase in flying activity has boosted demand for its aircraft maintenance services and BBA Aviation says it is confident it will post strong...

AFI KLM E&M and Malaysia Airlines E&M have signed a 10-year component support contract for the airline’s fleet of 35 737-800s. The contract provides for AFI KLM E&M to create a component spares pool in Malaysia Airlines’ E&M facility to exclusively...

ST Aerospace has won around S$370 million worth of new maintenance contracts in the third quarter of this year.  The airframe contracts include heavy maintenance checks, passenger-to-freighter conversions and interior refurbishments on various commercial and military...

China Airlines and ST Aerospace have signed a seven-year component maintenance contract worth $16.2 million. The contract is for the component Maintenance-By-the-Hour (MBHTM) support of China Airlines’ fleet of 10 Boeing 737-800 aircraft. This contract includes repair...