Rolls-Royce has announced plans to invest more than £30m at its site in Washington, Tyne & Wear, UK, creating a new facility to manufacture a range of aerospace discs for in-service engines. The new Fleet Support plant is expected to be fully operational in 2018 and will sit alongside its UK discs manufacturing facility, which
Aircraft Propeller Service ,one of the leading commercial propeller Maintenance Repair Organizations (MROs), continues its global expansion. The company announced the opening of its new facility in Atibaia, Brazil, located approximately 90 kilometers from São Paulo’s international airport and less than 60 kilometers from Viracopos, a major hub for the region’s largest ATR operator, Azul.
Gulf Air, the Kingdom of Bahrain’s national carrier, has announced a 3-year extension of its Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) agreement with Joramco under which Joramco will provide Gulf Air with Heavy Maintenance checks for its current fleet of 28 aircraft – A330s, A320-ERs, A320s and A321s. The agreement, originally signed in January 2013, has
XTI Aircraft Company (XTI) launched a formal stock offering and is accepting investments to support development of the revolutionary new TriFan 600 aircraft. The 30-day opportunity to invest is not only open to those who have expressed interest in investing in the company, but to all investors around the globe. The announcement immediately followed the
Boeing announced it will lower the production rate on the 747-8 program to match supply with near-term demand in the cargo market. To account for the market and production impacts, the company will recognize a US$569m after-tax charge when it announces financial results for the fourth quarter of 2015. “Global air passenger traffic growth and
TamarackAerospace Group released that the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) granted a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for its ATLAS brand Active Winglet system to be installed on the Cessna (model CE525) CitationJet and its variants; the CJ; CJ1; CJ1+. EASA certification for the Cessna M2 will follow in March, 2016. US certification by the FAA
Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL), the engineering division of The Monarch Group, has extended its agreement with La Compagnie to include airframe heavy maintenance. Under this extended agreement, MAEL will perform a C Check on the Boeing 757-200 ER at its maintenance facility at London Luton Airport. MAEL currently supports La Compagnie’s transatlantic operation with a
Comlux The Aviation Group is pleased to announce the signing of a cooperation agreement with Texel Air, in order to provide its Middle East customers with dedicated MRO line Maintenance and cabin upgrades & refurbishments on their VIP aircraft. While Texel Air will provide hangar, maintenance and certification services through its 3,200 m² facility at
ThyssenKrupp Aerospace, a company of the Materials Services business area, is further expanding production and logistics capacities at its Varel location. This year, the aviation experts of the ThyssenKrupp Group are expected to move into an additional production and logistics building for the manufacture, storage and transshipment of aircraft components at the Aeropark. Garbe Logistic
Following certification by the FAA and EASA, operators of Airbus A320 Family aircraft are now able to upgrade the emergency floor path marking to the latest version of STG Aerospace’s market-leading saf-Tglo photoluminescent system, SuperSeal UltraLite (SSUL). First launched in 1995 and with continuous evolutions ever since, saf-Tglo stores and simultaneously emits light and marks
