DHL placed an additional order for five A300-600 P2F with EFW, a global market leader in wide-body freighter conversions. These five aircraft are former JAL aircraft. In total EFW will now have 18 P2F for DHL under contract. EFW handed over the first A300-600 aircraft out of the 18 ordered conversions to EAT/DHL at the EAT/DHL
Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAE)Â has signed a line maintenance technical handling agreement with Jet2.com. The agreement will see MAEÂ to provide line maintenance support for Jet2.coms fleet of Boeing 737 and Boeing 757 aircraft across a number of Spanish airports, including Arrecife, Alicante, Malaga and Tenerife South.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes has selected John Holland Aviation Services (JHAS) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to provide Boeing GoldCare maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for the region. The GoldCare program designed by Boeing is a total care engineering and maintenance service to airline operators providing fully integrated maintenance solutions. As a partner in Boeing GoldCare,
Gulfstream G650 has received its provisional type certificate (PTC) from the Federal Aviation Administration. This clears the way for the company to begin interior completions of the ultra-large-cabin, ultra-long-range business jet in preparation for customer deliveries in the second quarter of 2012, as originally planned. “We are pursuing a two-step certification approach to keep us
Spare Solution Support India (SSSI) signed a component maintenance agreement with Turkish Technic for the repair of Airbus A320 family components. Component maintenance will be carried out at Turkish Technic’s facilities in Istanbul, servicing more than 10.000 different part numbers.
Air Berlin and Lufthansa Technik AERO Alzey (LTAA) have signed a multi-year Spare Engine Pool Agreement to support Air Berlin’s regional fleet of PW150A powered Dash8-Q400 aircraft operated by Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter (LGW). As per the terms of the agreement, LTAA will provide spare engines for planned and unplanned engine removals.
Bombardier Aerospace signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco for the establishment of a manufacturing facility in Morocco. The exact site location will be announced at a later date. Bombardier Aerospace intends to invest approximately US$200m in equipment, buildings and start-up costs over the next eight years. Scheduled to be
Embraer and Alcoa have signed a new technology sharing agreement that will utilize Alcoa’s proprietary aluminum alloys, advanced design and manufacturing techniques, and its fastener technologies to support Embraer’s development of new high-performance metallic fuselage and wing solutions for its family of aircraft. Alcoa is a leading supplier of aluminum sheet, plate, extrusions and forgings, and fasteners
Chromalloy as received the company’s third Approved Organization Exposition certificate from the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB). The certificate was awarded to Chromalloy’s San Antonio, Texas, repair station following a rigorous audit by JCAB and determination of operational capabilities to provide repair services on various components in turbine engines powering Japanese commercial aircraft. Earlier this year,
The first Boeing 787 Dreamliner to undergo change incorporation work in San Antonio, Texas, returned to Everett on Nov. 13th. The airplane completed an eight month change incorporation program and will now go through final preparations in Everett before delivery to Japan Airlines (JAL). During change incorporation, airplanes that are not part of flight test are
