Aviation Technical Services (ATS) has reached an agreement with the City of Kansas City and the Kansas City, Missouri, Aviation Department to lease a portion of the KCI Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Base at Kansas City International Airport. The operation, which at full capacity will provide ATS with 607,000 ft² of operating space, will create
XL Airways France & Turkish Technic signed an agreement for B737-800 aircraft base maintenance services. The service will be performed at Turkish Technic’s facilities in Istanbul, Turkey. XL Airways France is a French airline with its head offices at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport and in Tremblay-en-France. It operates scheduled flights mainly to long-haul destinations in
PEMCO World Air Services (PEMCO) reported a new multi‐year contract extension with JetBlue Airways. Under the new agreement, PEMCO will provide aircraft heavy maintenance services for JetBlue’s large fleet of Airbus 320 aircraft for up to five years. This is the fifth consecutive year PEMCO has been selected by JetBlue for its airframe maintenance requirements.
On Tuesday December 3rd in a ceremony hosted by Mexicana MRO at its Mexico City International Airport facility, executives from EADS, Airbus, LAN, Indaer and OceanAir, celebrated the successful conclusion of the “A318 Delivery Project” between LAN and Airbus, with the delivery of the 15th and last aircraft. Works included the realization of relevant major
Atlasjet signed Landing Gear Maintenance Services agreement with Turkish Technic for two landing gear sets of A321 aircraft. Landing gear removal & installation, landing gear overhaul activities will be carried out at Turkish Technic’s Istanbul facilities. Turkish Technic will also support Atlasjet with its spare units during shop visits. Turkish Technic has been providing MRO
RUAG Aviation is establishing a new helicopter facility at Sion Airport in western Switzerland. Launching in early 2014, the facility will initially focus primarily on the maintenance, repair and overhaul of Sikorsky S-76 helicopters. Further helicopter types may subsequently be added to the portfolio. The full range of helicopter MRO services will be performed at
Alcoa (AA) has signed a multi-year supply agreement with Airbus valued at approximately $110m for value-add titanium and aluminum aerospace forgings. Alcoa will produce the parts using its recently modernized 50,000-ton press in Cleveland, Ohio. This press uses state-of-the-art controls to meet stringent aerospace specifications and is uniquely capable of producing the world’s largest and
Boeing will begin construction in the second half of 2014 on a new paint facility on its main campus in North Charleston, S.C. The company expects to begin painting fully assembled 787 Dreamliners in South Carolina in mid-2016. The approximately 230,000 ft² (21,368 m²) facility will be used to apply customer liveries to Boeing South
Chorus Aviation and GA Telesis announced that they have signed a Letter of Intent (“LOI”) to form a joint venture to provide supply chain solutions, including component and spare parts support, to Bombardier Q400, DHC Dash 8, and CRJ aircraft operators and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) providers. The joint venture will leverage the considerable
Exelis has been selected by Boeing to produce composite airframe substructures for the 787 Dreamliner. Work will begin immediately at the Exelis composite design and manufacturing center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Exelis is a long-standing trusted supplier to Boeing providing composite storage tanks for the 737, 747, 767 and 777 models.
