MRO & Production

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has opened a line maintenance base at Singapore’s Changi International Airport, the carrier’s eighth outside Abu Dhabi. Equipped with the latest technology, the new facility will perform all scheduled and non-scheduled line maintenance for Etihad Airways’ daily flights operating to Singapore from both Abu

AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, released that a final assembly line for the new generation AW169 helicopter will be established at its AgustaWestland Philadelphia facility located at Northeast Philadelphia Airport in the United States of America. The first Philadelphia built AW169 helicopter will be inducted into the final assembly in May 2014 and will be delivered

Crane Aerospace & Electronics, a Crane Co. segment, have signed an Authorized Repair Facility Agreement with ST Aerospace Systems. Under the terms of the agreement, ST Aerospace will serve as an authorized repair facility in Singapore for a variety of Crane products for use on commercial aircraft. These include fuel pumps, proximity sensors, transformer rectifiers,

Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has signed a contract and will enter into an agreement, with Flybe UK, for the provision of Bombardier Q400 and Embraer 175/195 line maintenance in the UK at Birmingham, Manchester, London Gatwick and East Midlands airports. Commencing on Wednesday May 1st 2013, the agreement will also include the provision of Bombardier

On April 29th, GE Aviation celebrated the grand opening of its new jet engine components factory in Auburn that will create hundreds of jobs. The 300,000-ft² advanced manufacturing plant will produce precision, super-alloy machined parts for GE jet engines that will power future commercial and military aircraft, and also support the vast fleet of GE

Following the expansion of its Scope of Work with the Airbus A380 in 2012, Direct Maintenance has commenced offering Boeing B747-8 line maintenance support. The inaugural event took place at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on the occasion of launch customer Cathay Pacific Cargo deploying its first B747-8F freighter service into Europe. Cathay Pacific Cargo is the

Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has completed a cabin reconfiguration modification for the Greek airline, Astra Airways. Under the terms of the agreement Monarch’s Part 21J Design Organisation Approval, Monarch Design Services provided a modification which was successfully embodied on their Airbus A320 aircraft.

Messier-Bugatti-Dowty (Safran), inaugurated the company’s new landing gear production facility at its plant in Mirabel, near Montréal. The inauguration represents the culmination of more than a year of construction, and total investments of C$58m. The company has received significant support from the Quebec government for its expansion and modernization program, through the Quebec Ministry of

On April 9th, Ameco Beijing completed Boeing 737-800 landing gear exchange and overhaul for Souty Korean based T’way Air. It is planned that Ameco will perform another Boeing 737-800 landing gear overhaul for the airline in November, 2014. T’way Air operates five Boeing 737-800 aircraft with regular and charter routes in Japan, Thailand and Taiwan,