Airbus has started final assembly of the first A320neo at its Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Toulouse (France), with the join-up of the forward and aft fuselage sections which recently arrived from St. Nazaire in France and Hamburg in Germany respectively. Once this phase is completed, the next stage is the wing to fuselage join-up.
Fokker Elmo, part of Fokker Technologies, has signed a contract with Snecma (Safran) valued at $60m for the delivery of Engine Build-up Units (EBU) electrical harnesses for the LEAP engine, a product of CFM International, a 50/50 joint company between Snecma (Safran) and GE. The LEAP engine was selected by Airbus for its A320 Neo,
Additive manufacturing technology is rapidly spreading from one industry sector to the next. In the field of aero engine construction, Munich-based MTU Aero Engines has achieved a breakthrough: As one of the first companies to use the new technique, MTU produced components for production engines this past May. These parts – borescope bosses for the
Red-Eye Aerospace released that it has secured an ATR42-300 for teardown. The first wrench went on the plane this week at Avcraft located in South Carolina.
TrueAero received its first consigned A320 “End of Life” aircraft which has completed the part-out process and will now be re-distributed from TrueAero’s 50,000 ft² facility in Sebastian FL. One of the CFM56-5A engines will be placed on lease and the other parted out, significantly increasing the consignors net return.”
TP Aerospace Leasing has been chosen by Danish cargo airline Star Air to provide a long-term B767 Wheel Flat Rate (WFR) program in support of its 12ea B767 aircraft currently in operation. Star Air, part of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group is one of Europe’s premier cargo airlines. With TP Aerospace Leasing’s highly flexible, cost effective
Air Namibia und Lufthansa Technik continuing their cooperation. The technical support provided since the airline began operating in 2006 is now being continued through a Total Technical Support TTS contract valid through 2018. As part of its comprehensive supply of the airline’s current long-haul fleet of two factory new Airbus A330s, Lufthansa Technik has been
Tigerair Australia has expanded its partnership with BAE Systems, creating up to 40 new jobs at three airports. BAE Systems is now delivering line maintenance services for Tigerair’s fleet of A320 aircraft at Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane airports for the next five years. Line maintenance provides overnight checks on terminating aircraft and 24 hour coverage
Aeronaves TSM has ordered one more AEI MD80SF passenger to freighter conversion. The aircraft is a high gross weight MD82 (MSN 49558) and was built in 1988. The aircraft will be modified at Commercial Jet’s Miami Florida facility starting in July 2014. This order will bring Aeronaves TSM’s MD80SF freighter fleet to three, with two
On March 4th, 2014, just 6 months after construction began, GKN Aerospace’s new bizjet engine integration facility, in Phoenix, Arizona has made its first delivery. The facility supplied Honeywell HTF7250 engines, fully integrated into GKN Aerospace designed and manufactured nacelle systems, to Gulfstream for its newest aircraft – the G280 super mid-sized business jet. Today
