MRO & Production

AeroTurbine has expanded its Supply Chain Solutions business with a recently signed material supply agreement with Honeywell International. The material supply agreement provides aftermarket support and on-the-shelf availability for select Honeywell material in the Mechanical Line of products. The Honeywell Mechanical Line of products will complement AeroTurbine’s global inventory support programs that are currently active

UTC Aerospace Systems’ Aerostructures business has been selected by Ocean Air Linhas Aereas Avianca Brazil to provide complete nacelle maintenance for the airline’s fleet of 12 A320 family aircraft powered by CFM56-5B engines. The flight hour agreement specifies that Aerostructures will provide initial provisioning of spare parts, dedicated nacelle components to enhance Avianca Brazil’s operational

Pratt & Whitney and TES Aviation Group have entered into a material consumption agreement on PW4000-100″ engines. Under the agreement, Pratt & Whitney and TES Aviation Group will work together to consume material from PW4000-100″ engines that have been displaced from recently retired Airbus A330 commercial aircraft fleets. The agreement includes material purchasing, component repair

Nextant Aerospace, maker of the Nextant 400XT, the only remanufactured business jet, has announced Jet Aviation Singapore as its new authorized service center in Asia. The contract, which was signed at ABACE, will see Jet Aviation Singapore provide maintenance services for Nextant’s growing fleet of 400XTs in the region. As the company’s exclusive authorized service

After 20 months of construction and installation activities, MTU Aero Engines today inaugurated its new center of excellence for blisks at its premises in Munich. Numerous guests of honor from politics and industry had come to attend the cere-mony, among them State Minister and Head of the Bavarian State Chancellery Thomas Kreuzer (Member of Bavaria’s

A J Walter Aviation (AJW), has signed a 5 year contract with Tajikistan based airline Somon Air, to provide power-by-the-hour support for its current fleet of two B737 Classics. This is AJW’s second PBH contract with Somon Air in as in January 2012 the airline chose AJW for a 5 year contract to provide support

Aeronautical Engineers (AEI) has selected Commercial Jet’s (CJ’s) new 400,000 ft² facility at the Dothan Regional Airport (DHN) in Dale County, Alabama as its forth AEI Authorized Conversion Center (AACC). Commercial Jet’s Alabama facility will provide 737-300SF, 737-400SF & MD80SF Passenger to Freighter Conversions and Maintenance for AEI customers. Commercial Jet’s Alabama facility joins a

Nexcelle’s role in the creation of next-generation integrated propulsion systems (IPS) has marked important milestones as hardware manufacturing is now underway for the innovative O-Duct on the CFM International LEAP-1C powerplant, and an inlet section for the GE Passport engine. These milestones underscore ongoing progress at Nexcelle’s two parent companies – Aircelle (Safran) and GE

Cessna Aircraft Company reported that the production for the Citation Latitude aircraft, first announced in October 2011, is on schedule and making progress toward completion of full airframes this year. “We’ve started building engineering test articles. The first prototype is expected to fly in Q1 2014,” said Terry Shriner, business leader for the Citation Latitude.