MRO & Production

VAS Aero Services will acquire two additional Airbus narrow-body airframes from Dublin, Ireland-based Avolon Aerospace Leasing, an international aircraft leasing company.  VAS will manage the teardown of both airframes and the subsequent residual parts harvesting and marketing through its global aftermarket parts marketplace. This agreement represents an expansion of the January 2022 consignment agreement between

Joe Biden, President of the United States,  has changed the former President Trump’s livery design for the “Next Air Force One,” VC-25B, settling on a new paint design which will more closely resemble the livery of the current Air Force One, VC-25A, while also modernising the look for the 21st century. While accounting for the VC-25B’s larger

Saudia Aerospace Engineering Industries (SAEI) and Collins Aerospace have signed a ten-year FlightSense agreement for Saudia Airlines’ entire A320, A330 and Boeing 787 fleet. Collins will provide SAEI with asset pooling support and services for aircraft. The relationship has potential to expand as SAEI extends its client base to additional airline operators. The SAEI roadmap

The Pratt & Whitney GTF™ MRO network this week welcomed its second operational facility in Japan and 11th worldwide, with the addition of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Aero Engines (MHIAEL), part of Japanese Aero Engine Corporation. MHIAEL, a Pratt & Whitney maintenance partner since the Wasp engine and most recently the PW4000 and V2500 engines, have inducted

Coldstream Helicopters (Coldstream) and Safran Helicopter Engines have signed a Support-By-the-Hour (SBH®) contract for Makila engines that power the former’s AS332L1 Super Puma Fleet. The contract formalizes a long-term maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) and services agreement which supports Coldstream’s Makila 1A1 engines. The contract will be overseen by Safran Helicopter Engines Canada, in Mirabel,

GE Aerospace has granted aircraft engine and components manufacturer ITP Aero a service contract extension to conduct MRO services for CT7 engines at its facility in Albacete, Spain.  ITP Aero’s scope of work includes research and development, manufacturing and assembly and testing of aircraft engines, as well as MRO services for a wide range aerospace

Airbus Helicopters has partnered with the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation to develop CityAirbus NextGen’s future missions for medical services in Norway. To this end, the parties will jointly measure the added value of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for a selection of medical services use cases across the country to integrate the operational

Romanian aerospace company AEROSTAR has reached an important milestone by completing  base maintenance for the 1,000th aircraft since the opening of the commercial MRO business. The aircraft is a Boeing 737-8 MAX from Czech airline Smartwings. It is undergoing a C-check and is scheduled for delivery on March 6. AEROSTAR has been an EASA Part