In order to better serve its long-standing customer, Air Mauritius, Trenchard Aviation Group has opened a new facility on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Trenchard Aviation Group has long been providing a dry cleaning service for Air Mauritius as well as the cutting and sewing of seat covers from its base in the U.K.
Airbus plans to further develop its industrial presence in Malaysia with three new initiatives. These include the expansion of Airbus’ wholly-owned maintenance facility, Sepang Aircraft Engineering (SAE); the establishment of the Airbus Malaysia Digital Initiative, and an increased participation in the Aerospace Malaysia Innovation Centre (AMIC). The projects are covered by a Memorandum of Agreement
Magnetic MRO has marked a new milestone by welcoming a Boeing 737 freighter for the company’s 600th C-Check. The latest symbolic achievement echoes the company’s ever-improving efficiency, as well as the geographical expansion of its clientele. The aircraft under maintenance is a Boeing 737-400 freighter, operated by a Central European airline ASL Airlines Hungary. The
Skyways Technics Asia branch has obtained CAAM (Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia) approval to become an Approved Maintenance Organization. This new certification will enable its ATR-focused composite and leading edges repair shop activities to be in full compliance with Malaysian operator’s quality requirements, and this also constitutes the first step towards other foreign approvals to
TBD, the British manufacturer renowned for professionally engineered ground support equipment and specialist access solutions for the global aviation industry, has delivered eighteen sets of towable passenger stairs to the Ground Handling branch of Silk Way Airlines in Azerbaijan. The total order, worth over £500,000 (US$660,000), was focused on a general upgrade for Heydar Aliyev
Semmco, an innovative engineering company that designs and manufactures a wide range of aviation maintenance solutions, with a U.S. manufacturing base in Arlington, Texas, has signed a contract with JetBlue, a major carrier in the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean. Semmco will be supplying access platforms and ground support equipment to JetBlue line stations
American Airlines is expanding the work conducted at its maintenance base in Tulsa, Oklahoma (Tech Ops – Tulsa), resulting in the need to hire more than 400 new team members. Over the next few months, additional maintenance work will be sent to Tech Ops — Tulsa, including scheduled maintenance work on the Boeing 787 fleet.
Austria-based FACC, a leading technology partner of the aerospace industry, has been commissioned by Bombardier Aviation to manufacture radomes for the Airbus A220, in addition to the Bombardier Challenger and Global business jet families. Deliveries for the A220 commercial aircraft are scheduled to start in 2020. Bombardier and FACC can look back on a long-standing
The Federal Aviation (FAA), Wichita Aircraft Certification Office (ACO) and PWI entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), effective July 22, 2019. This MOU streamlines the existing working relationship between the Federal Aviation Administration FAA and PWI. PWI has manufactured quality lighting products since 1972, beeing the original supplier of fluorescent lights for Gulfstream, Falcon,
S7 Technics’ Irkutsk line station has won approval from the Bermuda Civil Aviation Authority (BCAA) to provide line maintenance services for the Embraer E170 aircraft type. Previously, the only facility able to maintain Embraer E170s in Siberia and the Russian Far East was the S7 Technics base at Novosibirk’s Tolmachevo airport where specialists have been
