MRO & Production

GKN Aerospace announced the company’s intention to establish a new aerospace components assembly facility in Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. The new GKN Aerospace facility will perform assembly operations for the recently-awarded production contract for the HondaJet, (announced 11/14/11) the development work for which is currently performed at the company’s Alabama facility. This work will involve assembly

TAM MRO, TAM’s maintenance unit located close to São Paulo, has renewed its certificate to provide services to airplane components and on aircraft registered on the Bermudas, a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic. The new authorization from the BDCA (Bermuda Department of Civil Aviation), the country’s aviation authority, is valid until March 2013.

Assembly of the 32 metre long carbon fibre wings for the first A350 XWB (MSN1) has started at Airbus’ recently opened “North Factory” in Broughton, UK. Most of the A350 XWB wing is made of light-weight carbon composites, including the upper and lower wing covers, stringers, front and rear spars. The advanced structural designs, combined

Singapore Airlines has expanded its 10-year OnPointSM solution agreement for engine maintenance, repair and overhaul to include its new GE90-115B engines that power its eight additional Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. The agreement on the newly added engines is valued at more than $300m over the life of the agreement.

Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAE) has signed a line maintenance technical handling agreement with Jet2.com. The agreement will see MAE 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