Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
A J Walter Aviation (AJW) has signed a five-year contract with Tajikistan based airline Somon Air, to provide power-by-the-hour support for its current fleet of two B737 Classics. This is AJW’s second PBH contract with Somon Air in as in January 2012 the airline chose...
A J Walter Aviation (AJW), in partnership with British Airways Engineering, has been selected by Azerbaijan Airlines to provide power-by-the-hour component support for its new Boeing 787 fleet which will commence flight operations in 2014. Under the agreement,...
Meggitt has confirmed that the Boeing 787’s battery charger, made by one of its US subsidiaries, passed a series of tests by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in January. The NTSB said, “The acceptance test procedure of the APU battery charging unit was...
BAE Systems Regional Aircraft has won a contract for its rate-per-flying-hour aircraft spares support service from Eastern Airways, which covers a three-year support deal for the airline’s fleet of 16 Jetstream 41 turboprop airliners. Eastern Airways operates over 800...
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...
The agreement includes technical fleet management services, component repair, and availability via dedicated logistics support, access to AFI KLM E&M's dedicated regional A330 spares pool, and the supply of an A330 Main Base Kit on Air Pacific premises. Dave Pflieger,...
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...
Alexandre de Juniac, chief executive of Air France, has stated to press that he expects to complete talks with Rolls-Royce on providing an engine maintenance agreement for the 25 A350 aircrafts the airline has on order.
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...
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...