HAECO ITM, a member of the HAECO Group, has renewed its long-term contract with Air Hong Kong to provide inventory technical management support for the airline’s Airbus A300-600 freighter fleet. The contract extension covers component MRO, repair management, component pooling, component engineering, consumable and expendable parts support services, and AOG support. The extension will ensure
StandardAero’s engine MRO facility in Gonesse, France, is enjoying a strong start to 2019, with new capabilities and additional hires. The Gonesse facility, which is located mid-way between Le Bourget and Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, last month renewed its Pratt & Whitney Canada Designated Overhaul Facility (DOF) licenses for the PW100 and
MTU Aero Engines AG and the Government of the Republic of Serbia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with regard to the company’s intention to set up a new industrial site in Serbia. The Serbian government strongly supports this new venture, which will most likely be located in the Belgrade region. Due to ongoing
Field Aviation has sold two EFI-890R flight deck upgrades to an undisclosed U.S.-based customer for their Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft. This sale represents the first two upgrades in the operator’s fleet, one being on a Bombardier Dash 8 Series 200 aircraft and the second on a Series 300. The timing of this sale aligns with
Täby Air Maintenance, TAM, has received EASA Part 21 Design Organisation Approval, DOA, giving the company an ability to offer enhanced technical services to airlines. Already having a corresponding Production Organisation Approval in place, POA, TAM is now well suited to offer its customer a wide range of services, including rapid design and production of
West Star Aviation will be completing four 120-month Global Express inspections at its East Alton (ALN) location in the first half of 2019. The ALN location recently added additional state of the art hangar space, making room for such requests, along with highly experienced technicians to complete each detail of the process. In addition to
Acro Aircraft Seating has been selected by Etihad Airways to supply its Series 6 Economy Class seat. The seats are to be retrofitted on twenty-three of the airline’s A320 and A321 aircraft and are expected to enter service in May 2019. Series 6 is Acro’s next generation Economy Class seat which incorporates the company’s innovative
The French Polynesia airline Air Tahiti Nui has entrusted AFI KLM E&M with the maintenance of the APS5000 auxiliary power units (APU) equipping its fleet of four Boeing 787-9 aircraft. The long-term contract includes repair and overhaul support, as well as the leasing of a spare APU when needed. All the work will be carried
Bombardier Business Aircraft has unveiled the Soleil lighting system, the advanced cabin lighting technology, on the Global 7500 business jet. Designed and developed exclusively for the Global 7500 aircraft, the innovative Soleil lighting system is aviation’s first circadian rhythm-based cabin lighting technology fully integrated with the Flight Management System, and it introduces the Dynamic Daylight
S7 Technics’ Mineralnye Vody-based aircraft painting centre has reached its first significant milestone by completing the re-painting of its 100th aircraft. Some 250,000 man-hours, about 30,000 litres of paint and 60,000 litres of accompanying chemicals (solvents, paint removers, etc.), as well as more than 300,000 abrasive disks were required for the aircraft painting centre to
