Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
ST Aerospace has secured a five-year exclusive MD-11 Heavy Maintenance Support contract worth US$30m (approximately S$39m) from Lufthansa Cargo. With the agreement, ST Aerospace will become the sole service provider supporting Lufthansa Cargo’s MD-11 fleet in both...
Universal Asset Management (UAM) has completed the acquisition of a portfolio of Airbus A340 airframes and engines from Airbus Asset Management for trading and component support. The portfolio, which includes three Airbus A340-300 airframes, one Airbus A340-500...
Xiamen Airlines has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with GE to further strengthen the strategic cooperation between the parties. Zhao Dong, President of Xiamen Airlines and Bill Fitzgerald, Vice President and General Manager of GE Aviation's Commercial...
Airbus has acquired the Strategic Simulation Solutions flight training centre in Aurora, Colorado, a Denver suburb. Currently, the training centre primarily supports Frontier Airlines and has significant room for growth. Prior to this acquisition, Airbus...
The Atlantic Aviation Institute, an EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) Part 147 approved subsidiary of Atlantic Aviation Group, has this week announced that they are to train over 2,000 national and international Aircraft Maintenance Engineers and...
Vahana, the all electric, self-piloted, VTOL aircraft from A³ by Airbus, has successfully completed its first full-scale flight test, reaching a height of 5 meters (16 feet) before descending safely. The test was completed at 8:52AM Pacific on January 31, 2018 at the...
AES Global has developed a retrofit solution for Airbus and Boeing single aisle aircraft family. The solution allows operators and leasing companies to achieve full compliance with the applicable ruling in a convenient and timely fashion. The retrofit solution...
Following the first flights of the first A330neo test aircraft (MSN1795) on 19th October 2017 and the second (MSN1813) on the 4th of December, both are fully operational and are now flying on a daily basis, says Airbus. They have already accumulated more than...
Long-standing partners AirAsia X and AFI KLM E&M have extended the Malaysian budget carrier's A330-300 component support contract, originally signed in 2007. The new agreement involves extending the exclusive component support provided by AFI KLM E&M...
Airbus will showcase its “Hangar of the Future” (HoF) at the Singapore Air Show. HoF is a project to digitise and automate maintenance activities to increase the overall maintenance process efficiency. HoF combines the use of innovative technologies and smart,...
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has awarded Metron Aviation, a subsidiary of Airbus, an Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) system contract. This system will be located at the Singapore Air Traffic Control Centre (SATCC). Metron will be responsible for...
MTU Maintenance has started an augmented reality pilot project at its facility in Berlin-Brandenburg. The project goes by the name “Inspection 4.0” and aims to improve knowledge management in the shop. Inspection 4.0 has two main goals. The first is to...