Eirtech Aviation announced the expansion of its aviation services with the launch of a dedicated Composites Division, which offers clients a range of new composite services including repair, training and manufacture of composite components. The Irish headquartered company is already recognised as one of the world’s leading specialist aircraft services companies and the addition of
Liebherr-Aerospace Saline, Saline (Michigan, USA) and East Air Corporation, Hackensack (New Jersey, USA) have recently extended their long term agreement from 2011 for component maintenance and exchange pool access. Under the agreement, Liebherr-Aerospace provides exclusive repair and overhaul services for Liebherr equipment in support of East Air’s global and diversified customer portfolio and inventory for
MTU Maintenance, one of the world’s leading providers of maintenance services for commercial aero engines, has won a new airline customer in Asia: Garuda Indonesia will send its CF34-8C5 engines to MTU Maintenance for repair according to an exclusive five-year agreement. The contract covers 30 to 40 shop visits and services also include the provision
Shinwa Industry and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries jointly established Matsusaka Aircraft Parts Manufacturing Corporation (Matsusaka APM) in Matsusaka City, Mie Prefecture, to perform surface treatment and painting of commercial aircraft parts. The new entity is to become a member of the Aircraft Parts Manufacturing Cooperative, an industrial cluster based in Matsusaka. Plans call for Matsusaka APM
Dassault Systèmes reported that Airbus Group, after a two-year comprehensive benchmarking process, is extending its use of Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform to its additive manufacturing programs integrating design, simulation and production. Airbus Group will deploy Dassault Systèmes’ collaborative design and simulation applications as part of the “Co-Design to Target” industry solution experience, for the additive
Airbus has selected PPG enhanced-design sliding cockpit windows for installation in an A320neo airplane. After the aircraft is delivered, PPG will work with Airbus and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to gain Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA) to sell windows directly to airlines as replacements in the aftermarket in place of the current design. “PPG worked
Horizon Air and Turbo Resources, a privately held and operated provider of high quality, certified aeronautical parts, have signed a three year exclusive consignment agreement to sell Horizon Air’s excess Q400 material. Since 1984, Turbo Resources has served airlines, MROs, OEMs, lessors and brokers with an inventory of over 500,000 individual line items.
Pemco World Air Services reported the redelivery of the first heavy maintenance check performed on a foreign-registered VIP aircraft. The jet had an outward appearance of a typical commercial airliner, but the MD-87 aircraft’s interior was nothing but first-class from nose to tail. With decades of heavy maintenance experience under their belt, the PEMCO team
Vector Aerospace has received FAA supplemental type certificate approval for a new ADS-B solution which is applicable for installation on the Airbus Helicopters AS332, Leonardo-Finmeccanica AW139 and Sikorsky S-76 series of helicopters. The new ADB-S In/Out retrofit upgrade (FAA STC # SR02473AK) features an intuitive, panel-mounted touchscreen transponder which replaces the aircraft’s existing transponder. Should
Jet Aviation Basel was appointed by Airbus Corporate Jets to design and render a VIP cabin interior for an Airbus ACJ350, the new generation composite aircraft by Airbus, that visited Geneva during EBACE 2016. Airbus brought to Geneva during EBACE 2016 a flight-test A350 to show selected visitors, and presented a gallery of cabin interior
