GKN Aerospace has reached an important milestone in its collaboration with Eviation (U.S.A.) by delivering the first fully integrated wings, empennage, and EWIS for the Alice all-electric aircraft. The wings and empennage feature advanced composite technology, and are the first delivered by GKN Aerospace as fully integrated structures. Alice is taking advantage of GKN Aerospace’s
DHL Supply Chain Iberia and Iberia Maintenance have signed a contract through which DHL will manage the internal logistics of spare parts and components for Iberia Maintenance at its La Muñoza hub in Madrid and also at the Madrid-Barajas Adolfo Suarez and Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat airports. In addition to this contract, DHL provides Iberia
GE Aviation has broken ground on its new engine component manufacturing facility for both civil, military aviation, and aero derivative applications. The facility will be built on 53 acres in the Miami Valley Research Park in Ohio. The 280,000 ft² facility is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2022 and fully
Three months ago, DC Aviation put its new state-of-the-art wheel shop into operation at the maintenance center at Stuttgart Airport. The new wheel shop offers customers an even more comprehensive range of services for the repair and maintenance of main and nose landing gear wheels. From now on, maintenance services can also be performed on
Volga-Dnepr Technics Moscow (VDTM), MRO provider of foreign aircraft maintenance in Russia, has received Bermuda Civil Aviation Authority (BCAA) approval for Boeing 777-200/300 (GE 90) maintenance provision at Domodedovo (Moscow) and Krasnoyarsk airports. The company, which initially received BCAA approval for the Boeing 777-200/-300 (GE 90) maintenance in May 2019, now can provide maintenance of
Rolls-Royce has officially opened Testbed 80, the world’s largest and smartest indoor aerospace testbed in Derby, U.K. The completion of the project is a major milestone after almost three years of construction and a £90 million (US$110 million) investment. With an internal area of 7,500 m², making it larger than a Premiership football pitch, Testbed
GA Telesis, LLC, a global aviation services integrator, has entered into a joint venture agreement with AirTransport Services Group, a leading provider of aircraft leasing and air cargo transportation and related services, to build a GA Telesis Specialized Procedures Aeroengine Hospital (SPAH) in the Central or Midwest of the United States. The SPAH will be
Iberia will resume flights to several summer destinations in June. The carrier will fly to Italy, Croatia, Portugal and the U.S.A. For that reason Iberia Maintenance is working intensively to overhaul a total of 46 IAG Group and third-party customer airplanes and their engines for the summer season. 29 of these aircraft are from Iberia
Airbus continues to expect the commercial aircraft market to recover to pre-COVID levels between 2023 and 2025, led by the single-aisle segment. The Company is therefore providing suppliers with an update of its production plans, giving visibility in order to schedule necessary investments and secure long term capacity and production rate readiness, in line with
Lufthansa Technik and Canadian ultra-low-cost carrier Flair Airlines have signed a comprehensive Total Component Support (TCS®) contract covering repair, and overhaul of components for the airline’s fleet of Boeing 737MAX 8 aircraft. Up to 24 aircraft from the airline’s current and future fleet are included over a period of ten years. Support for the aircraft
