The modernisation of Lufthansa Cargo’s fleet continues: on February 12th, 2015, the fifth Boeing 777F of the cargo airline landed in Frankfurt for the first time. On a flight lasting approximately nine hours, the crew under chief pilot Claus Richter had transferred the Triple Seven safely from Everett near Seattle to its new home airport. […]
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AgustaWestland received approval of the FlightSafety International Learning Centre in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA as an AgustaWestland Authorised Training Centre. FlightSafety International has been providing AW139 Training since May, 2013. Courses for the popular AW139 intermediate helicopter delivered from the Learning Centre benefit from an AW139 Level D qualified Full Flight Simulator which features FlightSafety’s electric
Airbus has signed an agreement with Bengaluru based Dynamatic Technologies to be the single source supplier of flap-track beams for the wide body A330 Family aircraft. The agreement is the largest manufacturing contract between Airbus and a private sector company in India and elevates Dynamatic to a global tier-1 supplier. Dynamatic has manufactured flap-track beam
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C&L Aerospace has been appointed a sales and service center under the Michelin Alliance Partner Program. Aside from warehousing Michelin’s full line of tires for regional and business jet aircraft at their three stocking locations, C&L Aircraft Services will provide tire and installation services at their expanded 120,000 square-foot complex in Bangor, Maine. C&L will
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Universal Asset Management (UAM), a leader in aviation asset management, aircraft disassembly and commercial aviation aftermarket component sales, announced the promotion of Troy Molitor to Vice President of Strategic Markets. Troy joined UAM in August 2014 from ILFC where he was the Vice President of Technical Aircraft Lease Negotiations and Airline Transfers. In his new
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Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has completed acquisition of a UK and Germany-based aircraft company, 328 Support Services GmbH (328), owner of the type certificate and intellectual property (IP) rights for design, manufacturing, maintenance and certification of the 200 existing Dornier 328 (D328) prop and jet aircraft. In addition, SNC holds IP rights and supplemental type
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Sanad Aero Solutions GmbH (Sanad), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company, has increased its leasing portfolio of spare engines and components with Etihad Airways through the addition of new assets valued at US$100m, including spare GEnx and GP7200 engines and spare landing gear and nacelles, to support the airline’s growing fleet of B777, B787,
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The writing was on the wall when just over 12 months ago we reported that the African airline industry was losing out heavily to Middle Eastern-based airlines such as Emirates, Etihad and Saudi Airlines. We had seen Middle Eastern carriers outstrip performances from all other regions, where total passenger traffic (both domestic and international) was
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Delta Air Lines’ maintenance division and its maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider business, will now be offering six variants of the CF34-8 jet engine to its list of aircraft engines eligible for MRO services: CF34-8C5, CF34-8C5A1, CF34-8C5A2, CF34-8C5B1, CF34-8E5, CF34-8E5A1. As the best-selling regional jet engine in its class, the CF34 by General Electric
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With the new locations in Melbourne, Australia; Ottawa, Canada and Denver, Colorado; Satcom Direct now has nine international offices and five U.S. operations. At Satcom Direct’s new offices, technical, on-site staff members provide training, support and satcom system consultation for pilots, flight operations staff and maintenance crews while development teams work to bring new products
