Pratt & Whitney will expand its global network of providers that maintain the Pratt & Whitney GTF™ engine to include AFI KLM E&M. The facility will serve PW1500G engines for the Airbus A220 with full disassembly, assembly and test capability. The announcement was recognized at an in-person signing ceremony at Air France-KLM Group headquarters in
On November 8, 2022, at the 14th Airshow China in Zhuhai, the Engineering Technology Branch of China Southern Airlines Co., (China Southern Technic), Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering Corporation (Ameco) and Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Co. (GAMECO), signed an agreement on a workload exchange project for aircraft component business. The successful signing of this cooperation project
At the Airshow China 2022, Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH (EFW), the centre of excellence for Airbus freighter conversions and Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering Corp (Ameco), the largest provider of MRO services for aircraft in China announced a new collaboration on Airbus Passenger-to-Freighter (P2F) conversions. Under the partnership, Ameco will carry out P2F conversions as a third-party
Satair, an Airbus services company and a leader in the commercial aerospace aftermarket, and Eastern Airlines Technic Co., have signed an agreement covering a selected scope of part numbers. The agreement will optimize Eastern Airlines Technic’s inventory by leveraging on the availability of local inventory in Satair’s Beijing warehouse, increasing the dispatch rate of materials
AAR CORP., a provider of aviation services to commercial and government operators, MROs, and OEMs, celebrated the fruition of collaborative efforts to donate a functional aircraft to Rock Valley College’s Aviation Maintenance Programme on October 18, 2022. AAR partnered with the State of Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to provide funding, SkyWest Airlines
Vallair, the mature asset specialist, has purchased two A320 aircraft from Aviation Capital Group (ACG) for teardown. The aircraft (MSN 2372 and MSN 2393) are both 2005 vintage and the airframes will be dismantled at Vallair’s facility in Montpellier, France. According to Armando Filho, Material Management Director, “Both A320s are currently stored in Montpellier and
AJW Group, an independent aircraft component parts, repair and supply chain solutions provider, has extended a power-by-the-hour (PBH) support contract with Brazilian cargo operator Modern Logistics. The support contract providing full power-the-hour services for B737CL freighters, has been in operation since 2017 and was the first PBH contract for AJW in Brazil. Since 2017, AJW
IBC Advanced Alloys, a leading beryllium and copper advanced alloys company, is now supplying beryllium-aluminium (BeAl) alloy components under contract to L3Harris Technologies, for use in an undisclosed aerospace application. IBC’s work in supplying BeAl components to L3Harris is in the early stages and the Company expects that it could lead to significant material amounts
Emirates today began its two-year retrofit programme with work starting on the first of 120 aircraft earmarked for a full cabin interior upgrade and the installation of the airline’s latest Premium-Economy seats. After completing flight EK928 from Cairo to Dubai on Monday, November 1, A6-EVM was steered to Hanger-E at the Emirates Engineering Centre where
Lufthansa Technik, a leading global provider of aircraft maintenance, repair, overhaul and modification services, has created a Hydrogen Aviation Lab out of an old, decommissioned Airbus A320 aircraft. The Hydrogen Aviation Lab will be used to trial maintenance and ground processes for hydrogen-powered aircraft of the future. Hydrogen is anticipated to play a major role
