Monarch Aircraft Engineering adds A380 to line maintenance capability

Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) have been approved to add the Airbus A380 aircraft to its wide ranging MRO capabilities. The additional aircraft has been added to the EASA and GCAA Part 145 approvals, allowing MAEL to provide line maintenance support for Airbus A380 operators at Birmingham srport. Derek Gibson, Commercial Director at Monarch Aircraft Engineering, said: “Adding the Airbus A380 aircraft to our Part 145 certificate gives us a wider scope of airframe capabilities. The investment made provides further evidence of our commitment to expand and support customers operating the next generation of aircraft.”
MAEL also reported that it has completed back to back airframe maintenance on eight Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft at its aircraft maintenance facility at Birmingham Airport. During March, April and May this year, the nose to tail inputs were successfully completed for one of the company’s third party customers which included phase 12 checks, service bulletins, engine changes and defect rectification. Monarch Aircraft Engineering’s maintenance facility at Birmingham Airport in the UK is 110,000 ft² and has the capacity to hold two Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft side by side, plus other wide and narrow body aircraft. In September 2015 MAEL was the first UK MRO to carry out a phase 12 check on the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.