MRO & Production

Garmin International said that it will expand its portfolio of integrated flight deck upgrades to now include a G5000 modernization program for the popular Citation Excel and Citation XLS. The Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) is targeted for approval in late 2018 and will be available from select Garmin dealers, as well as Textron Aviation Service

Triumph Group has received an additional delivery order from Gulfstream for the production of wing and wing components for the G650 program. The add-on work is valued at approximately US$300m and extends through 2018. Triumph Group assumed production of the G650 wing in January 2015 from Spirit AeroSystems. As part of the original agreement, Triumph

Air Canada has further cemented its partnership with AJW Technique, the Quebec based component MRO provider, with a renewed five year contract for slide and inflatable maintenance. The contract underlines the focus that AJW has placed on building its repair business in North America and its initiative to create specialist modules of contracted repair service

VAS Aero Services and SR Technics will cooperate on a comprehensive supply program for PW4168 engine maintenance operations. Helping SR Technics, the Swiss MRO to provide best-quality, timely maintenance services on PW4-100” engines for its airlines customers, the comprehensive supply program agreement calls for VAS to position engines at SR Technics’ facilities for teardown and

Wingo, a new low-cost airline, will be the first Latin American customer to use the Vector single-aisle economy class seat. HAECO Cabin Solutions provided Wingo with a turnkey solution for its needs by handling reconfiguration engineering, obtaining the supplemental type certificate, and delivering the short-haul Vector economy class seats. To meet the airline’s commercial operation

FEAM Maintenance/Engineering reported its expansion into 3 new line maintenance locations at Ontario, California (ONT), Richmond, Virginia (RIC), and Allentown, Pennsylvania (ABE). FEAM has leveraged its current bandwidth of over 550 aircraft maintenance technicians to simultaneously open all 3 locations on time for a major cargo operator. FEAM will support Boeing B767 freighters at the

Iberia has unveiled its new, extra-comfortable Premium Economy cabin, to be available on 37 of its long-haul aircraft, starting during the summer season of 2017. The new cabin will be installed on eight Airbus A330-300s and 13 of the airline’s A340-600s, to be modified in the course of 2017 y 2018, and will come factory-equipped

SR Technics has signed several maintenance agreements extending its partnership with easyJet. The signed contracts include line maintenance agreements for a range of easyJet’s stations in the UK, including London Gatwick Airport which is easyJet’s largest base, and Switzerland, as well as a light base maintenance agreement in Geneva. These contracts are for three years,

Pratt & Whitney has entered into an agreement with Satair Group, a leading provider of aftermarket services and solutions for the civil aerospace industry, for the exclusive distribution of PW4000 100-inch engine thrust reverser spare parts. Under the agreement, Satair Group will distribute the spare parts to Pratt & Whitney’s worldwide customer base. Satair Group

STS Component Solutions (STSCS), a division of STS Aviation Group, has been appointed as MRO Business Partner with Ametek MRO’s Midwest family of companies for customers within the EMEA region. Ametek MRO is a global provider of third-party MRO services for the commercial, regional and general aviation industries. Its operations specialize in a wide range