Rolls-Royce is to open a new supply chain office in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. This new office will strengthen collaboration with key suppliers in a region that is widely recognized as the leading aerospace industry cluster in Mexico. The new office will be located in the Parque Industrial Roca Fuerte which is near several key suppliers […]
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PPG Industries announced the relocation and expansion of the Toulouse, France-area aerospace sales office. In addition to housing staff who serve regional PPG transparencies and coatings customers, the larger facility includes a paint spray booth, and a technical laboratory is being completed for transparency engineering analysis starting later in 2012. “As with PPG aerospace sales
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Rolls-Royce has signed a $598m contract with the US Department of Defense for 268 AE 1107C engines for US Marine Corps and Air Force V-22 aircraft. In the first year, Rolls-Royce will deliver 70 engines valued at $151m. The contract includes four additional option years, with deliveries expected to total 268, including spare engines. Rolls-Royce
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Embraer signed a five-year agreement with Poland’s LOTAMS, to become its Authorized Aircraft Service center. The expanding Warsaw-based MRO services provider, which was formerly part of the LOT Polish Airlines group, will provide routine checks, scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, together with component repairs for both Embraer commercial aircraft families – ERJ 145 and E-Jets. Based
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Jetstar Japan, one of Japan’s newest low-cost carriers (LCC), has taken delivery of its first Airbus A320 aircraft in Toulouse, France. The Japanese carrier will start commercial services in July operating from Narita to Kansai, Fukuoka, Sapporo, and Okinawa with an initial fleet of three aircraft. This fleet will grow to 24 aircraft within three
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UK-based Apple Aviation Group released that it signed and established a joint venture for Line Maintenance and AOG support for third party commercial customers, in Jeddah and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Furthermore the company gained UK CAA/EASA Part 145 approval for Base Maintenance on B737, B757, B767, A320 SRS and A330 aircraft.
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Skytech-AIC has been appointed by airBaltic, the flag carrier of Latvia, on an exclusive basis to assist the airline in the acquisition of three additional used Bombardier Q400 aircraft to add to its current fleet of eight Q400s. The acquisition forms part of the airline’s continuing programme to replace Fokker 50s with more efficient and
The Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft successfully went through additional certification trials on expanding operational conditions in the high north latitude area. Trials involved SSJ100 flight prototype MSN95005 and took place in the airport Tiksi, Yakutiya, Russia, from 12 to 19 April 2012. The airport is located at the 71.7 degree of the north latitude.
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Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) has received Transport Canada type certification for the PT6C-67E turboshaft engine, that will power Eurocopter’s EC175 helicopter. The Eurocopter EC175 is a new multirole helicopter and the PT6C-67E is the latest turboshaft engine in the PT6C-67 family for the medium class helicopter segment. “The PT6C-67E engine is the latest in
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ADSoftware, the French aviation dedicated software company, announced that Mauritania Airlines International, the national carrier of Mauritania has signed with ADSoftware to implement AIRPACK Fleet Management System and Logistics Solutions comprising AIRTIME (Fleet management – CAMO), AIRSTOCK (Inventory control – Logistic), AIRDOC (Documentation management), AIRUSER (Security management) and AIRSTAT (Reliability and statistic reports). Mauritania Airlines
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