GDC Engineering (GDC), an Aircraft Engineering and Certification services provider and Joramco, the Amman based MRO, have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI). Under the LOI, GDC and Joramco will work to form a strategic, long-term partnership to pursue aircraft major and minor modifications and repair opportunities for commercial aircraft throughout the region, under GDC
Airbus Helicopters and the Hungarian Government have selected the town of Gyula in the Békés County as the site for a new aerospace enterprise in Hungary. Gyula is located in the country’s eastern part. The new installation will be built up from scratch and will be the core of an emerging Hungarian aeronautics cluster. At
Specialist aircraft component support provider Bii.aero has teamed with Dublin based aircraft and engine leasing firm Rostrum Leasing to market a suite of engine piece parts resulting from the phased tear-down programme of selected B737-300 Classics and CFM56 spare engines formerly operated by Southwest Airlines. Bii.aero has all available piece parts to serve the used
S7 Technics’ Mineralnye Vody-based aircraft painting centre has completed its first work on an Embraer aircraft. Air Astana dispatched one of its Embraer E190s to Mineralnye Vody for a planned refreshing of its paint under a long-term contract with S7 Technics. The aircraft is the fifth in Air Astana’s fleet to have been painted by
RUAG MRO International refreshed a Bombardier Challenger 850 belonging to VistaJet with a variety of aircraft services during a scheduled maintenance visit. Project management and services included aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), component MRO, aircraft painting, and the integration of both an avionics ADS-B out upgrade as well as a full cabin refurbishment. This
MTU Maintenance has signed an exclusive four-year CFM56-5B contract with GoAir, a low-fare carrier based in Mumbai, India. The contract covers the maintenance, repair and overhaul as well as spare engine support and on-site services for the CFM56-5B engines powering the airline’s 17 A320 aircraft. Launched in 2005, GoAir is an aviation foray of the
GE Aviation has strengthened its service and support network in critical regions where the Passport-powered Bombardier Global 7500 and CF34-powered Challenger series aircraft and customers are based. GE Aviation named Bombardier’s Tianjin Service Centre in China as an Authorized Service Center for GE’s Passport and CF34-3 engines in April. With the announcement, GE has combined
GKN Fokker Services and Estafeta’s cargo airline have signed a contract to deliver GKN Fokker Services’ customized ADS-B Out solution to Estafeta’s cargo airline B737 fleet, that is servicing Mexican domestic and global markets. Estafeta, a logistics service provider, needed to equip their fleet in order to comply with the new ADS B-Out mandate with
Lufthansa Technik supports South African owned carrier Comair with comprehensive technical services and integrated fleet management. Operations at the first two local line maintenance stations of the MRO company have already begun. Comair has contracted Lufthansa Technik to provide Total Technical Support (TTS®) for its Boeing 737 fleet. The agreement includes integrated fleet management, known
Joramco, the Amman based MRO and the engineering arm of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), has performed its first C-check on a Royal Jordanian Boeing 787 at its facility in Amman-Jordan. Jeff Wilkinson, Chief Executive Officer of Joramco said: “We are delighted to be increasing our B787 capability, the B787 is a key aircraft within our
