While maintaining its proposed output target of 75 narrow-body jets per month by 2025, European planemaker Airbus has been forced to accept current supply chain issues and has lowered the pressure on suppliers to commit to meeting Airbus’ proposed target. Currently many suppliers have openly confirmed that parts’ shortages would remain “largely through the end …
European low-cost carrier Wizz Air has given notice to Airbus to exercise its purchase rights in relation to 75 Airbus A321neo aircraft. The 75 additional A321neo aircraft, most of which are expected to be delivered in 2028-29, underpins Wizz Air’s ambitious goal of more than tripling the size of its fleet by the end of …
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On the last day of the MRO ASIA show in Singapore, GKN Aerospace has celebrated the grand opening of its all-new facility for aero-engine parts repair in Johor Malaysia with an inauguration ceremony. The ceremony was originally scheduled to take place in February 2020 but had to be postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The …
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North American planemaker Boeing has announced that as part of its corporate structure simplification programme and its decision to focus more on manufacturing and product development, numerous jobs in both the IT and finance sectors are to be shed. This year 150 jobs are due to be cut in the United States in the finance …
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MSB, a Sogeclair company, supplier of innovative, high value-added solutions for safer and more efficient mobility, has signed an agreement with Heart Aerospace, manufacturers of the electrically powered ES-30 regional aircraft to design and develop some 60 key structural components for the cabin, flight deck and cargo sections. The scope of work includes full provision …
Airbus Defence and Space has developed and tested a loading system to lift outsized military cargo into the Airbus Beluga A300-600ST aircraft. The capability was successfully tested during a verification exercise with the German armed forces, the system’s first customer, by loading a CH53 military medium-lift helicopter into the Beluga. The new self-funded cargo loading …
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Topcast, the aircraft parts distributor and MRO service provider, has won an exclusive distribution agreement of products from Aviation Devices & Electronic Components, LLC (Av-DEC), the innovative anti-corrosion solution provider. Upon the contract signed as of the first day of MRO Asia-Pacific 2022, Topcast will represent all corrosion-prevention products engineered by Av-DEC to customers in …
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