Philippine Airlines and Lufthansa Technik AG have signed a five-year Total Component Maintenance (TCM) contract for the Airline’s Airbus A320 and A340 fleet. The services will be extended end of 2016 to support additional Airbus 320s operated by Philippine Airlines. Lufthansa Technik will support Philippine Airlines at its main base in Manila, the Component Service
Jet Aviation Vienna received authorization from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to provide line maintenance to series of GV-SP aircraft which includes the Gulfstream G550. With this approval, Jet Aviation Vienna is now authorized to provide line maintenance to Gulfstream GV-SP aircraft, which includes the G550. The company also provides line and base maintenance
SR Technics has signed a major turnkey cabin modification integration contract with Intrepid Aviation, a leading global aircraft leasing company. SR Technics will now manage and implement all the design engineering and embodiment work required for the major redesign and enhancement of seven of the lessor’s Airbus A330 cabin interiors. This innovative cabin modification turnkey
Global Engine Maintenance (GEM) has appointed G&G Aviation of Rome as its exclusive representative for the European Union, Norway and Switzerland. GEM, based in Doral Florida, specializes in the maintenance, overhaul, leasing, trading and exchanging of CFM56 and JT8D aircraft engines. With the benefit of its new facility, experience of its personnel and management of
The challenges of equipment integration on future aircraft powerplants – particularly next-generation Ultra-High Bypass Ratio (UHBR) powerplants – is the focus of a three-year European Union-funded technology project now underway with 10 companies and organisations, and led by Aircelle (Safran) as industrial coordinator. The NIPSE project seeks to find better placement options for equipment, using
Singapore Airlines has extended its TotalCare service agreement with Rolls-Royce for Trent 800 engines that power its Boeing 777 aircraft. TotalCare enables the business models of the aircraft owner and Rolls-Royce to be fully aligned to improve engine reliability, increase time on wing, and maximise the engine services contribution to customer business performance.
Rolls-Royce has launched a new engine service, SelectCare, continuing its reputation for service innovation and expanding the customers’ choice of competitive, capable and flexible services across the engine lifecycle. SelectCare fits between Rolls-Royce’s fully comprehensive TotalCare service, which maximises engine time on wing in addition to giving long-term cost certainty on a dollar-per-flying-hour basis, and
LOT Aircraft Maintenance Services company has received an update of EASA PART-145 certificate. Certificate has authorized the company to extend the scope of work on Boeing B777-200 / 777-200LR / 777-300 / 777-300ER / 777F with Trent 800 and GE90 engines. EASA Part-145 certificate was given to LOTAMS by the Civil Aviation Office of Poland.
Aircraft Propeller Service, recently developed an innovative brush-plating repair solution for a damaged, Cad-plated steel torque plate on propeller hubs. The repair not only saves the part from being scrapped, but it also represents a viable solution for damaged Cad-plated steel plates that can now be repaired at one-third the previous costs. According to APS
A year after its official inauguration, Messier-Bugatti-Dowty’s new plant in Sendayan, Malaysia delivered its first heat sink to AirAsia, for use on the Airbus A320. The heat sink is a stack of carbon disks comprising the airplane’s brake. Messier-Bugatti-Dowty chose Malaysia to set up its new carbon disk production and refurbishment plant in this region,
