MTU Maintenance Hannover has repaired the group’s 3,000th V2500 engine. It was delivered to US aircraft lessor ILFC (International Lease Finance Corp). MTU Maintenance is the market share leader for maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services regarding this engine type. Co-developed by MTU Aero Engines, the V2500 powers the Airbus 320 family of aircraft.
Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has signed an agreement with Avion Express to provide a worldwide support structure for the use of SMART (Specialised Monarch AOG Response Team.) SMART, operates under MAEL’s EASA 145 approval and has a highly experienced team of engineers on 24/7 standby 365 days a year. Under the terms of the agreement
Airbus has delivered the front fuselage for the first flyable A350 XWB (MSN1) to the Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Toulouse (France). The impressive 21 metre long section is already equipped with its systems and was flown in from Airbus’ site in Saint-Nazaire (France) by the Airbus Beluga transport aircraft. The A350 XWB front fuselage
Norwegian Air Shuttle, the third largest low-cost airline in Europe, has become the largest customer for the Boeing landing gear exchange program with a new service contract covering an additional 15 Next-Generation 737s. Landing gear must be overhauled and recertified every 10 years, or after 18,000 cycles. Participants in the landing gear exchange program receive
Oman Air has selected Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation for a long-term agreement to be the maintenance provider for the APS2300 Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) on its existing fleet of five Embraer 175 series aircraft. The APS2300 APU is currently on board more than 800 Embraer 170/190 aircraft around the world and is operated by more than
MTU Maintenance Hannover has won another customer, the German express cargo operator AeroLogic, for the maintenance of the GE90 engines. Under the exclusive contract, the company will be responsible for maintenance services of all GE90-110B engines powering AeroLogic’s Boeing 777F fleet including their owned spare engines. The long-term contract has a value of more than
Lufthansa Technik AERO Alzey (LTAA) celebrated the final test run after servicing the 1.000th turbofan engine of the General Electric (GE) CF34-series. The first engine of the CF34-series of the American manufacturer was serviced by LTAA already in 1991. Since then the engine type has become a backbone in the service portfolio of the company
Constant Aviation, a maintenance, repair, and overhaul facility, announced the opening of a new landing gear repair and overhaul facility at their Birmingham, AL location. The facility will begin servicing Beechjet 400A/XP landing gear and expand to include two other niche aircraft Embraer Legacy 600 and the Hawker 800A/XP in the coming months. Constant Aviation
Dassault Falcon signed an agreement with Indian charter operator Taj Air to establish a Dassault Falcon Authorized Line Service Station at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (VIDP) in Mumbai. The facility, which is already operational, will provide scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and inspections for all Falcon 2000 models. Initially, the facility will serve Indian registered Falcons
SR Technics, part of the Mubadala Aerospace MRO network, and Air Tahiti Nui have signed a contract for the completion of three cabin modifications on Airbus A340-300s. This will be carried out in parallel with C-Checks on the aircraft. The modification involves converting the existing three class cabin configuration to two classes, with the complete
