MRO & Production

PPG opened a US$3m state-of-the-art liquid coatings application development center at its Oak Creek, Wisconsin, plant. The new center includes advanced equipment that helps simulate industrial coatings customers’ manufacturing environments to ensure PPG coatings will be properly and consistently applied during their production processes. The new coatings application development center houses multiple curing ovens, robotic

Hawkeye Engine Services and Jetpower announced a strategic marketing alliance. Combining Hawkeye’s overall capacity in the power plant and whole aircraft market with Jetpower’s strong foothold in the aircraft and parts business will ultimately extend the overall reach into all sectors of commercial aviation. Hawkeye was founded in 1999 and is focused on commercial aircraft

Comlux America, the Completion and Service center of the Comlux Group based in Indianapolis IN, celebrated the expansion of their VIP completion hangar which now has the capability to house wide body and narrow body aircraft simultaneously. The celebration of the facility expansion took place on the 27th of April 2016, one year from the

TrueAero, as part of its on-going commitment to providing engine material to its strategic customers, has purchased another CF6-80C2 engine. This engine has been positioned at a major MRO where it will be disassembled. The parts will be routed to the MRO’s repair shops and then used in meeting the MRO’s engine build requirements.

Triumph Aviation Services Asia, located in Bangkok, Thailand, has signed a ten-year agreement with PT Batam Teknik, a subsidiary of the Lion Group of Indonesia to provide repair services, tooling, training, Auxillary Power Unit (APU) test cell and certification assistance. Triumph will provide full APU repair and overhaul during the shop build-up phase as well

FL Technics, a global provider of tailor-made aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services, has completed a modification project for SmartLynx Airlines Estonia by installing USB charging sockets on the carrier’s Airbus A320 aircraft. FL Technics base maintenance specialists have installed brand new seating as well as conducted the process of setting up personal USB charging

Ateliers Bigata, a leading European safety systems independent MRO, is now in the phase of building up its stocks in order to increase the support and satisfaction level of its customers. Aircraft manufacturers, Brokers, MROs, Commercial and Business aircraft operators can now rely on an extensive stock of common rotables part of Ateliers Bigata capabilities

Täby Air Maintenance, TAM, has been approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, as well as the European Aviation Safety Authority, EASA, to perform a full cargo conversion of Saab 340A and Saab 340B. “I am very glad that we, as the only company globally, have a dual EASA-FAA approval for our high-end Saab

Aeronautical Engineers has signed a contract with Vallair to provide the company with four 11 pallet position B737-400SF freighter conversions. All of the conversions will be modified by Commercial Jet’s Dothan, Alabama facility with the first one commencing in May 2016, followed by the remaining three modifications in June, July and September of this year.

MTU Maintenance, one of the world’s leading providers of maintenance services for commercial engines and industrial gas turbines (IGTs), has extended its contract with Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil for its General Electric LM industrial gas turbines. The seven-year agreement is valued at more than US$200m. Under the deal, MTU Maintenance will be responsible