Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has signed a three-year maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) agreement with JorAMCo, to meet the airline’s Heavy Maintenance and ‘C’ check fleet requirements. JorAMCo, a regional MRO facility based in Jordan was awarded the contract by Gulf Air following a successful bidding tender process through
PART, an ARC Aerospace Industries Company released that the Chilean Air Force’s B737-500 Presidential aircraft arrived at PART in the week of January 13th, for a C-check. According to executives David Green and Janet Vincent, PART previously performed heavy maintenance for the Chileans in February 2012. An additional high-profile presidential aircraft is undergoing a C-Check,
LOT Aircraft Maintenance Services company signed an agreement with British air carrier BA CityFlyer for aircraft technical services. The agreement was signed for 14 months with the possibility of prolonging and it specifies the works in the scope of: scheduled and unscheduled base C checks, and also lower level checks (A and B), AOG (Aircraft
Gulf Air is to extend Rolls-Royce TotalCare service support for Trent 700 engines on six Airbus A330 aircraft. Globally, more than 90% of Trent engines in service and on order are covered by TotalCare. The Trent 700, the only engine specifically designed for the A330, is the market leader on the aircraft with 70% of
Bahrain based Aero Gulf Group released that the newly named Sola Engine Centre in Norway, which was purchased from Pratt & Whitney late 2013, can now deliver global operators of CFM 56 engines exceptional, industry recognised EGT margin and quality, through the investment, reorganisation and streamlining that has underpinned the Group’s strategic acquisition. It forms
Jet Aviation Basel has been selected to complete the interior of an Airbus corporate jet ACJ-A320 for an undisclosed head-of-state. The VIP aircraft will be delivered to the Basel Completions Center in the third quarter of 2014. Jet Aviation Basel was recently awarded a VIP cabin interior completions contract for a head-of-state ACJ-A320 aircraft. Configuration
Aeronautical Engineers reported that Vx Capital Partners have selected AEI to provide their first B737-400SF passenger to freighter conversion. The aircraft is a standard gross weight B737-400 (MSN 25109) built in 1994 and will undergo freighter modification at AEI’s Authorized Conversion Center, Commercial Jet, in Miami Florida.
PEMCO World Air Services announced a new Boeing 737 freighter conversion partnership with COOPESA (Cooperativa Autogestionaria de Servicios Aeroindustriales R.L.) in San Jose, Costa Rica. PEMCO’s expansion into Central America provides additional freighter conversion capacity to meet extraordinary demand for PEMCO’s market-leading B737-300 & -400 freighters – the only 737 freighter designed, built, certified and
UK-based passenger aircraft seat manufacturer Acro Aircraft Seating has signed an agreement with low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines to supply 30 shipsets of its Superlight seat. The deal which is worth an estimated £6m marks the company’s second major US client and equates to 5000 economy class seats including retrofitting five Spirit Airlines’ Airbus A319 aircraft
ATR Customer Support activities achieved outstanding results in 2013. The European regional aircraft manufacturer has signed this year 15 Global Maintenance Agreements (GMA) covering a total fleet of more than 160 additional aircraft. The cumulated value of all these contracts is over US$330m. This escalating success is due to ATR’s determination to build its own
