Aircraft painting and design provider MAAS Aviation has announced Jan van Engelen as its new chief executive, taking over from Tim Macdougald. Described as "an accomplished executive and board member", Van Engelen has over 25 years of international experience in the...
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AFI KLM E&M subsidiary in distribution deal with Dedienne Aerospace
Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance subsidiary Barfield has agreed with Dedienne Aerospace to distribute and service its ground support test equipment. "It will allow us to continue our strategy of expanding our distribution network and better...
PASSUR to market L3Harris Symphony for Airports
PASSUR Aerospace has been given an "exclusive, perpetual use licence" to market, sell and support the L3Harris Symphony for Airports suite of products. Stamford-based PASSUR will "assume responsibility for existing Symphony for Airports customers and align products...
APG announces new flight ops software release
Aircraft Performance Group (APG), a provider of flight operations software, has released iPreFlight Genesis PRO. APG claimed the product would push the boundaries of "what is possible in integrated flight planning, runway analysis and weight and balance" and would...
H3X announces investment by Lockheed Martin
H3X Technologies has announced an investment by Lockheed Martin Ventures (LMV), part of Lockheed Martin Corporation. H3X said the investment is to "accelerate technology development and commercialisation of H3X’s HPDM family of integrated motor drives" and to...
KinectAir and Electra.aero teaming up on regional eSTOL travel in the US
KinectAir, which provides an operating system for booking private charter and so-called advanced air mobility flights, has partnered with Electra.aero, a "next-gen" aerospace company. The pairing aims "to meet the growing demand for convenient, safe, and affordable...
Smiths Detection launches smaller-version CT-style passenger scanner for airports
UK-based Smiths Detection has launched its new HI-SCAN 6040 CTiX Model S passenger checkpoint scanner. The new model is "a smaller footprint version of its successful, security operator preferred, Computed Tomography (CT) passenger checkpoint scanner" and "can be...
Menzies gets ground services gig at Montreal Trudeau
Menzies Aviation has been given a ground handling licence by Aéroports de Montréal for Montréal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL), where it already provides cargo handling. “Adding ground handling at Montreal to our network is a fantastic milestone for our team, who...
Air Canada promises to work with plans to limit carriers at Toronto Pearson
Following reports that carrier limits are to be imposed at Toronto Pearson Airport, flag carrier Air Canada said it was first advised of such plans in August 2022 and came up with a 2023 winter schedule which it said took "these limitations" into account. The carrier...
Embraer in support deal with Philippine military
Embraer has signed a services agreement with the Philippine Air Force to support its fleet of six A-29 Super Tucano aircraft. The deal covers "more than 200-part numbers of the A-29 Super Tucano", Embraer announced. “Staying close to our customers and supporting them...
ACG names new marketing vice president
Aviation Capital Group (ACG) has announced the appointment of former Airbus and Rolls-Royce executive Alan Mangels as vice president of marketing. Mangels, who joins ACG from CDB Aviation, said he was "humbled and honoured to be joining a team of such accomplished...
New chief executive named for Newark’s new Terminal A
Michael Kunz has been appointed chief executive of the new Terminal A at Newark Liberty International Airport. Announcing the appointment, Munich Airport NJ LLC (MA NJ), which runs the terminal, said ex-Lufthansa man Kunz is "an experienced business leader" who will...