The FAA has approved the recent merger of Mobile Aircraft Services and B. Coleman MRO PBI, granting the new company, Infinity Aircraft Services, certification as a Part 145 Repair Station. This approval from the Federal Aviation Administration assures customers that all of Infinity’s programs, systems and compliance methods for the maintenance, inspection, alterations and aircraft
West Star Aviation has received FAA approval on their Lear 60 Future Air Navigation Systems (FANS) STC. West Star has teamed with Universal Avionics and TrueNorth Avionics to offer this new FANS solution for the Lear 60. This package consists of a Universal Avionics UniLink UL-801 Communications Management Unit (CMU), Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and
PPG officials hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the PPG coatings research center in Marly, France, to open a new laboratory and inaugurate an electrocoat (e-coat) aerospace primer pilot operation. This is PPG’s second significant investment for an AEROCRON e-coat primer installation, increasing global application capability for customer education. Like the first PPG e-coat aerospace primer
Embraer has extended the Flight Hour Pool Program with Japan Airlines for J-AIR’s growing fleet of E170s and E190s, which currently stand at 20 aircraft. The pool agreement, for up to ten years, covers more than 300 part numbers for J-AIR’s entire E-Jets fleet. J-AIR currently operates 17 E170s and three E190s. The third E190
Lufthansa Technik has been selected by an undisclosed customer to perform comprehensive cabin engineering services as well as initial parts provisioning for the entry into service on a Boeing BBJ 787-8. The engineering services consist of Service Bulletin (SB) and Airworthiness Directive (AD) monitoring, development and tracking of required maintenance planning data as well as
EDM, a leading global provider of training simulators to the civil aviation and defence sectors, officially started the construction work on EDM’s new £1.3m manufacturing facility, in a turf-cutting ceremony at the company’s headquarters in Newton Heath, east Manchester. The 18,000 ft² structure is being built to meet the demands of the company’s rapidly increasing
Taikoo (Xiamen) Landing Gear Services, has announced that the company recently completed the first landing gear overhaul for a Boeing 777-300ER in China. This achievement marks a significant milestone in the development of the company’s capability as the landing gear ship set for the -300ER variant is vastly different in terms of design to other
Comlux The Aviation Group has become the first to retrofit an Airbus corporate jet, an ACJ319, with Sharklets, which bring a fuel-saving of up to 4% and a corresponding range improvement. The retrofit, carried out by TAP Maintenance and Engineering as part of the first such turnkey-project managed by Airbus Corporate Jets, is also the
RUAG Aviation has announced the extension of the EASA Part 145 Maintenance Organisation approvals to include line and base maintenance for the Gulfstream G550 at its facilities in Munich. This is the latest addition to RUAG Aviation’s expanded portfolio of business aviation MRO capabilities. Gulfstream G550 customers now have the opportunity of choosing a tested
RwandAir and Lufthansa Technik signed an agreement about the comprehensive technical support of the Airbus A330 fleet of the African carrier. Delivery of the two brand-new A330s, the first widebody aircraft for RwandAir, is scheduled for September. In the framework of a Total Technical Support TTS contract Lufthansa Technik will perform aircraft maintenance services, engineering
