AAR has ramped up a third line of maintenance to support Air Canada’s fleet of commercial aircraft as part of a multiyear agreement to perform maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) at its Duluth repair station. The expansion solidifies AAR’s position in the region and moves the Company closer to its goal of employing as many […]
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WestJet has entered into a definitive purchase agreement for 65 737 MAX aircraft from Boeing. This order was previously announced on August 29, 2013 as a letter of intent to purchase. This purchase agreement includes commitments for 25 MAX 7 and 40 MAX 8 aircraft with substitution rights to the 737 MAX 9, with deliveries
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Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services has been awarded its first 777 heavy maintenance contract through an agreement with Russia-based Orenair. Boeing Shanghai will perform a C-check on one of Orenair’s 777-200ERs in October 2013. Boeing Shanghai received U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and European Aviation Safety Agency authorization to conduct 777 maintenance services in 2012. The maintenance,
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Avolon Aerospace Leasing, the international aircraft lessor, announces that Emerald Aviation Finance Limited (the ’Issuer’), a newly established special purpose company, priced a total of US$636,210,000 of Fixed Rate Asset Backed Notes (the ‘Issue’), the proceeds of which will be used by the Issuer to acquire a fleet of 20 aircraft (the ‘Initial Aircraft’) from
The SIMMAD (Integrated structure in charge of the Maintenance in Operational Condition of the Defense’s aeronautical equipment) announced that Sabena technics, a leading independent MRO provider, will carry out the periodic and major checks of France’s Puma helicopters. This contract is part of Sabena technics’ commitment to broaden its range of services, which until now
PPG Industries’ aerospace transparencies group has named Arthur C. Scott global market director for commercial transparencies and Mark Hood global market director for general aviation transparencies, both based at PPG’s Huntsville, Ala., facility. Scott had been global director for general aviation transparencies since 2010 and succeeds James Romano, who was appointed business manager for the
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