Israel Aerospace Industries, Israel’s largest national military and civilian security defense company, issued its consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2016. The Company reported new engagements signed with customers at a scope exceeding US$4bn. The scope of new engagements derives from a record number of global medium-sized transactions signed, alongside existing long-term
Kaney Aerospace, an engineering, manufacturing and technology company serving Tier 1 and airframe prime manufacturers, has completed its acquisition of BVR Technologies from Esterline Corporation. The combined company will operate as Kaney Aerospace with a workforce of over 120 employees primarily in Rockford, Illinois, with annual sales in excess of US$20m to the aerospace and
StandardAero has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire PAS Technologies, a high technology components provider, to expand its portfolio of industry-leading MRO service offerings. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. PAS specializes in providing cost-effective OEM and MRO solutions for the aerospace, oil and gas, and industrial gas turbine markets. By using innovative
SmartSky Networks, reported the closing of over US$170m in a multi-tranche Series B financing, completing the equity funding for the deployment of its nationwide network. With this financing, the Company has raised approximately a quarter of a billion dollars in equity capital. Goldman, Sachs & Co. acted as exclusive placement agent on the transaction. SmartSky
GE Aviation has acquired Critical Technologies, branded as AirVault, a privately-owned supplier of cloud-based digital records management. AirVault’s expertise to digitally manage mission-critical records across an industrial supply chain network strengthens GE’s ability to focus on asset lifecycle management and maintenance optimization for the aviation industry. The combination of AirVault and GE will further enable
BOC Aviation Limited reported its audited financial results for the full year ended December 31, 2016. Robert Martin, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, said: “2016 was an outstanding year for BOC Aviation that included another year of record profitability, following a successful initial public offering. Our net profit after tax of US$418m represented a
El Al Israel Airlines reported that the Company’s revenues in 2016 amounted to approx. US$2,038m, compared to approx. US$2,054m in the previous year. Profit before tax in 2016 was approx. US$93m, compared to a profit before tax of approx. US$145m in the previous year. The Company completed 2016 with a net profit of approx. US$81m
TrueNoord has closed the first tranche of a term financing facility with DVB bank and PK AirFinance of Luxembourg for four of the six Embraer E190 aircraft that it purchased from BOC Aviation in January with leases attached. These four aircraft are operated by AeroMexico and TUI (Jetairfly) Belgium. This new portfolio of six globally
AAR has reported third quarter Fiscal Year 2017 consolidated sales of US$446.7m and income from continuing operations of US$13.1 million. For the third quarter of the prior fiscal year, the Company reported sales of US$412.1m and income from continuing operations of US$9.9m. Sales in Aviation Services increased 9.6% in the quarter reflecting continued strong performance
PPG (PPG) has made a revised proposal on March 20, 2017 to acquire Akzo Nobel for €90.00 (cum dividend) per ordinary share, comprised of cash of €57.50 and 0.331 share of PPG common stock. This represents an increase of €7.00 per ordinary share from PPG’s initial offer. Including the assumption of net debt and minority
