MAG Aerospace (MAG) has acquired North American Surveillance Systems (NASS) and related entities. This acquisition adds over 75 aircraft integration, modification, and MRO professionals to MAG, increasing MAG's technical services and integration capabilities with...
MRO News Archive
Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
SafeRack launches AeroStep, a mobile stair and platform system for aviation and aerospace assembly and maintenance
SafeRack, which manufactures truck and railcar loading platforms and safety equipment, has launched AeroStep, a specialised line of rolling stairs and access platforms for aerospace and aviation industries. AeroStep's mobile stairs have the stability of a fixed...
Connected aircraft to save aviation industry $15 billion
The connected aircraft, enabled by satellite communications, has the potential to save airlines $15 billion annually in operational efficiencies and 21.3 million tonnes of CO2 emissions by 2035, according to first-of-its-kind research from the London School of...
KLM inks A320-family line maintenance contract with easyJet
KLM UK Engineering is delighted to confirm a line maintenance contract with easyJet, for the support of their Airbus A320 Family aircraft at Aberdeen & look forward to developing this relationship further over the coming years.
SENER acquires TRYO Aerospace & Electronics group
The engineering and technology group SENER has announced the acquisition of the TRYO Aerospace & Electronics group which, up to now, belonged to the private equity fund Alantra and private minority investors. This purchase brings to an end the formal sale...
Nippon Cargo Airlines suspends operations
Nippon Cargo Airlines says that it will temporary suspend all aircraft operations following the discovering of one “inappropriate maintenance record concerning the lubricating oil supply to the aircraft parts (for JA14 KZ) at Narita airport on April 3, 2018”. In what...
Monarch Aircraft Engineering wins new line maintenance contract with Air Transat
Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has been awarded a new line maintenance contract with Canadian carrier, Air Transat. The new agreement covers full line maintenance support for Air Transat’s fleet of A310 and A330 aircraft at Glasgow airport. Air Transat, a...
Bombardier’s Global 7500 arrive in Montreal
Bombardier announced that Global 7500 aircraft started arriving at the company’s Montreal facilities last month, where high-precision completion work is being carried out on this jet. Skilled workers at Bombardier’s state-of-the-art Centre of Excellence in Dorval,...
Rolls-Royce outlines mid-term ambition
Rolls-Royce leadership team delivered confidently on Friday morning (June 16) the full details of its restructuring, cost savings, a 15% return on invested capital and near-term ambition to exceed £1bn in free cash flow by 2020 at an analysts’ capital markets briefing...
Embraer-Boeing deal talks enter final stage
The negotiations between Boeing and Embraer on a possible partnership are reported to have entered a final stage following the endorsement in principle by Brazilian President, Michel Temer, reports Bloomberg. The same report states that the talks could conclude in...
Ideagen in project to supply Avion Group with safety and quality management software
Avion Group, which serves an international customer base including Airbus and Boeing with flight simulation products and pilot training, is to work with UK software firm Ideagen. Ideagen will provide Avion Group with its Q-Pulse software as the company looks to...
Airbus inaugurates Hamburg’s fourth A320 Family production line
Airbus has inaugurated the fourth Hamburg A320 Family production line. Making use of digital technologies and a more flexible industrial set-up, the line is a key enabler for ramping up the single aisle programme to 60 aircraft per month by mid-2019, says Airbus....