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Mammoth Freighters signs agreement with STS Aviation Services to perform 777 conversions and maintenance

Mammoth Freighters (Mammoth) has released that it has signed a general terms agreement with STS Aviation Services (STS) to perform passenger-to-freighter conversions for the Mammoth 777 programme. All work will be accomplished at STS’ facility in Manchester, UK, and the multi-year agreement covers both 777-200LR and 777-300ER aircraft. The STS facility will also provide Mammoth

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Kellstrom Aerospace, Vortex Aviation and Spirit Airlines sign long-term agreement

Kellstrom Aerospace, a leader in aviation life-cycle cost management solutions, and Spirit Airlines have entered into a multi-year agreement whereby Kellstrom Aerospace will provide technical advisory and end-of-life advisory services and Vortex Aviation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kellstrom Aerospace, will supply engine hospital shop and field services maintenance for Spirit Airlines’ V2500-A5 engines covered

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Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance and ANTAVIA AMETEK MRO renew contract

Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance and ANTAVIA AMETEK MRO have signed an extension to their multi-million-dollar aircraft component maintenance contract. For more than 20 years, Air France Industries has relied on ANTAVIA’s quality and service for the maintenance of its aircraft components. This renewal marks the continuity of a long-standing cooperation. “We highly

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Aviation Concepts collaborates with BAE Systems

Aviation Concepts, a U.S.-based global provider of high-quality aircraft spare parts and inventory management services, has signed an international distribution agreement with BAE Systems. Under the agreement, the companies will work together to provide strategic customer-forward solutions for the BAE Systems Electronic Systems sector’s global offerings of commercial air transport products. The collaboration will focus

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EirTrade powers up

EirTrade Aviation, the aviation technical asset services and trading company, has had a busy two years. As the aviation industry started to rebuild after the first wave of the pandemic the organisation stepped up its planned programme of investment and growth. According to Ken Fitzgibbon – CEO, the impact on the business has been remarkable. “We’ve

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Honeywell appoints VSE Aviation as exclusive global distributor of LASEREF IV inertial reference system

VSE Aviation, a wholly owned subsidiary of VSE Corporation has been appointed by Honeywell as the exclusive global distributer of the LASEREF IV product line. The LASEREF IV inertial reference system replaces the existing LASEREFI, II and III systems, which are no longer supported through Honeywell. Honeywell’s LASEREF IV is an all-digital ring laser gyro-based

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Airbus jets in China now being delivered using SAF blend

An Airbus A320neo has been delivered to China Eastern Airlines from the Airbus Tianjin Delivery Centre powered with a 5% blend of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The SAF came from China’s only certified SAF facility, SINOPEC Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Company, a state-owned manufacturer and will be used in a blend for all further Airbus

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First Boeing 777 with AeroSHARK takes off on passenger flights

For the first time, a Boeing 777-300ER operated by Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) took off on a passenger flight with the AeroSHARK surface technology jointly developed by Lufthansa Technik and BASF. The fuselage and engine nacelles of the aircraft were recently fitted with approximately 950 m² of so-called Riblet films, which replicate the flow-efficient

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Ethiopian Airlines completes Africa’s first B767 aircraft-to-freighter conversion

Ethiopian Airlines Group has completed a passenger-to-freighter conversion of one of its three B767 aircraft. Ethiopian partnered with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and launched a B767-300ER freighter conversion line at Ethiopian MRO facilities in Addis Ababa. The airline introduced these aircraft models in 2004. The conversion is aimed at replacing these ageing airplanes with ultramodern

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