C&L Aviation Group has completed the construction of a 27,000-square-foot parts warehouse on their Bangor, ME campus, adjacent to the company’s component shop. The company will be utilizing the warehouse to store parts from its current 15 aircraft teardown...
MRO News Archive
Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
AerFin celebrates 20th Airbus A320 family acquisition
AerFin continues its acquisition drive with the purchase of an Airbus A319-111 aircraft, equipped with two CFM56-5B/3 Tech Insertion engines from Banc of America Leasing Ireland (BALI). The purchase marks the 20th Airbus A320 family aircraft acquired by AerFin since...
Atlas Air Worldwide announces new five-year labor agreement with pilots
Atlas Air has completed a new joint collective bargaining agreement (JCBA) for its Atlas Air and Southern Air pilots, who are represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). The five-year JCBA is one of the last major steps in completing Atlas Air’s...
HAECO Americas to provide A321 heavy maintenance and cargo conversions
HAECO Americas, a member of the HAECO Group specialising in airframe maintenance, modifications and repairs, has signed an agreement with 321 Precision Conversions to provide heavy maintenance and structural modifications for its Airbus A321 aircraft...
Airlink selects Rolls-Royce TotalCare for engine servicing
Rolls-Royce and Airlink have signed a TotalCare service agreement for the AE3007 engines that power the South African airline’s fleet of Embraer ERJ135 aircraft. The agreement, which covers 28 aircraft, is an extension of service for a further 10 years. Airlink CEO,...
Update of Ryanair closure of London Southend Airport Base
Esken has provided an update following the announcement that Ryanair had decided to close its base at London Southend Airport ( LSA) with effect from 1 November 2021. David Shearer, Executive Chairman of Esken commented: "The terms of the deal which had been entered...
AerFin and StandardAero agree new engine support contract
AerFin and StandardAero have agreed a new long-term engine support contract including the global repair of AerFin’s CFM56-5C, 5B, 7B, CF34 and V2500 engine material. The deal reinforces the growing relationship between the two companies, who have collaborated for...
Eastern Airlines launches Eastern Air Cargo
Eastern Airlines, the international passenger airline, is expanding into the cargo market with the acquisition of 35 777 aircraft as feedstock for the first-ever P2F (Passenger to Freighter) conversion of the aircraft into a true, Class-E cargo aircraft. The Eastern...
FL Technics Engineering department was certified under EN 9110:2018 standard
FL Technics has received the Certificate for Continuous Airworthiness and Technical Asset Management Services, awarded by the Bureau Veritas, which confirms FL Technics Quality Management System meets the requirements of EN 9110:2018 and EN ISO 9001:2015 standards,...
Etihad Engineering, EOS and Baltic3D partner on parts additive manufacturing project
Etihad Engineering, EOS, which supplies manufacturing solutions based on industrial 3D printing technology, and Baltic3D.eu, one of the largest industrial 3D printing centres in Northern Europe, have agreed to collaborate on a Research and Development project “FDM and...
Gazprom Neft increases jet fuel sales by 16% in H1 2021
Gazpromneft-Aero, the aviation fuel operator of Gazprom Neft, increased jet fuel sales by 16% to 1.6 million tons in H1 2021. The volume of retail sales of ‘into-the-wing’ refuelling grew by 14%, to almost 1 million tons. The largest Russian international airports,...
Avion Flight Training Centre opened at London Luton Airport
Avion Group has opened a new flight training centre in Luton to support the start of a new long-term cooperation agreement with Wizz Air and IAGO Flight Training. The agreement will see the largest Central European A320 low-cost airline utilise the Avion A320 Level D...