MRO & Production

StandardAero and Martin Aviation signed a three-year Authorized Service Center agreement for PT6A engine services at the 2017 NBAA-BACE event in Orlando, Florida. The agreement will provide operators of King Air, Pilatus, Cessna Caravan, Cheyenne and TBM aircraft the advantage of a one-stop solution for both engine and airframe services. Under the agreement, StandardAero and

Air Canada has extended its slide and inflatable maintenance contract with AJW Technique, the maintenance hub for the AJW Group’s global component repair and overhaul service. The long-term extension was awarded to AJW as a result of implementing several successful innovative supply chain management programmes for Air Canada, including asset management and leasing, inventory solutions

Vector Aerospace has entered into an agreement with CareFlight to provide the Australian aeromedical operator with Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) PT6A engine services. CareFlight, headquartered in Sydney, NSW, uses helicopters, turboprops and business jets to transfer patients from accident scenes and between hospitals. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Vector will provide comprehensive

HAITEC Aircraft Maintenance and SuperJet International (SJI) have signed a service agreement for first-class line and base maintenance on the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft. This new cooperation follows HAITEC’s achievement of the EASA Part 145 approval for line and base maintenance on the SSJ100 regional jet from the German Federal Aviation Authority LBA (LuftfahrtBundesamt).

The Bedek Aviation Group of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has signed agreements for line maintenance and technical services to Wizz Air from Hungary. The agreement covers a broad range of aircraft maintenance services that will be carried out at IAI’s campus near Tel-Aviv International Airport, with close attention to minimal ground time between flights and

TAAG Angola Airlines has signed a five-year, TrueChoice overhaul agreement with GE Aviation for the maintenance, repair and overhaul of its CFM56-7B engines that power its five Boeing 737-700 aircraft. With this agreement, GE Aviation will be the service provider for all TAAG Angola’s GE engines.

PPG has received approval from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for its new-design glass-faced acrylic windshields for HAWKER® 800 series business jets, including the Hawker 750, 800, 800XP, 800 (U-125A), 850XP, 900XP and 1000 aircraft. With approval under an EASA Supplemental Type Certificate, PPG has begun selling the windshields directly to aircraft owners and

Mainboard-listed SIA Engineering and Air India Engineering Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air India, providing maintenance, repair and overhaul services, entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding to establish a business collaboration to offer MRO services in India. Pursuant to the MOU, SIAEC and AIESL will collaborate to offer line maintenance and ancillary services at

Satair Group and Senior Aerospace SSP (SSP) have signed a long-term worldwide exclusive distribution contract for Senior Aerospace SSP’s ducting and flexible joints products into the commercial aerospace market. The deal marks the first entry of Satair Group into a strategic cooperation with Senior plc, to which SSP belongs. Mr Sameer Madan CEO of Senior

As Airbus prepares for the first flight of the A330-900, production of the second member of the A330neo Family, the A330-800, is well underway with the first parts advancing at Airbus sites throughout Europe. These parts include the new increased-span wing now being equipped in Bremen (Germany) and its new composite Sharklets from KAL-ASD, the