Transaero Airlines, the first private airline in the Russian Federation, has signed with Aviointeriors, Italy, a LOI to purchase passenger seats for nine B777-200 aircraft, which soon will be part of the airline’s fleet. Transaero selected Venus, Perseus and Columbus Three seat models respectively, for their B777 First, Business and Economy Class. According to the
Lufthansa Technik Malta (LTM), a subsidiary of Lufthansa Technik, is expanding its hangar capacity for maintenance and overhaul work on Airbus widebody aircraft. With the addition to the smallest of the three hangars in Malta, which has been used to date only for narrowbody aircraft, the building will be able to accommodate aircraft up to
CIRCOR Aerospace celebrated the grand opening of their Corona, California Machining Center of Excellence on Friday, September 20th. The state of the art machining facility holds the critical machining processes for the West Coast fluidic control, actuation, and landing gear product lines. Completed in June of 2013, the new facility has 72,000ft² of manufacturing floor
Flying Colours Corp. the Canadian completions, refurbishment and maintenance specialist has broken ground on the first phase, of a three phase expansion plan, at its Peterborough, Ontario headquarters. An investment of over $3.5m will expand the company’s footprint and increase its large cabin completion and maintenance capabilities at its Peterborough Airport facility. With the steel
Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. (AEI), is pleased to announce that it has redelivered the first of two Kahala Aviation 737-400SF 11 Pallet Conversions. The first freighter to deliver is a high gross weight B737-400SF, (MSN 25052) built in 1991 and has been leased to Jet Time A/S, a Danish Charter Airline. The conversion was performed at
Nordic Aviation Capital A/S signed an agreement for a long-term Fleet Management Programme with Pratt & Whitney Canada, in support of their P&WC powered aircraft. Nordic Aviation Capital continually strives to develop creative business solutions to support its clients and assist them to manage costs and maintain profitability. “In partnering with Pratt and Whitney Canada
The first joint development of Lufthansa Technik and SCHOTT – the LED cabin lighting solution HelioJet – can now be experienced in normal airline operations: it has received a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) from the European aviation authority EASA for the A320 aircraft family, and is currently used for continental flights in an Airbus A319.
Bombardier Aerospace celebrated the opening of the Midparc Casablanca Free Zone, in Nouaceur, with a symbolic groundbreaking on the site of the future Bombardier manufacturing facility. In January 2013 Bombardier began operating out of a transitional facility located at the Mohammed V International Airport in Nouaceur in the Greater Casablanca region, where the company is currently
Euravia Engineering and Greenwich AeroGroup entered into a partnership agreement to provide Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) services for Pratt & Whitney’s PT6A and PT6T engines on fixed and rotor wing aircraft in the United States. According to the agreement, Greenwich AeroGroup will provide through its MRO’s (Atlantic Aero in Greensboro N.C., Summit Aviation in
AJW Aviation has signed a three year repair management power-by-the-hour agreement with Las Vegas based airline, Allegiant Air. The comprehensive support contract is for Allegiant’s new fleet of A320 family aircraft, three of which have already been delivered. Significant fleet growth is planned as this highly successful, low-cost airline increases routes and frequencies across the
