Ascent Aviation Services (Tucson AZ) signed a contract for an undisclosed value with Ameristar Air Cargo, for heavy maintenance and additional work on one DC9-15F aircraft. Ascent is a premiere narrow body maintenance, modification, refurbishment and storage facility located at Tucson International Airport. Ascent provides high quality, cost efficient, 24/7 support with competitive turn times
Defence and security company Saab has received a contract extension from Airbus, for the A320-family Aileron for the life of this programme. Based on the current Airbus order backlog for the A320-family the initial contract is valued at 701 MSEK. Further Airbus sales will lead to additional orders and thereby increase the total contract value.
FL Technics, a global provider of fully integrated aircraft technical maintenance services, is set to open 7 new line maintenance stations across Europe, the CIS and Asia-Pacific. The range of services offered in all 7 new line maintenance stations will extend to on-call maintenance, pre-flight, daily, weekly checks and component replacements, inspections and repairs. The
Finnair and SR Technics have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, according to which Finnair will in the future source engine and component services for its aircraft from SR Technics. Finnair expects the cooperation to result in significant cost savings for the company. The planned cooperation is a part of Finnair’s transformation program started in August
GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A. has received authorization from the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) to provide conventional and electrostatic painting, weighing and recalibration services for other companies’ aircraft in its Maintenance Center in Confins, Belo Horizonte. The agency’s authorization, which also represents a new revenue source, covers Boeing 737-700 and 737-800 Next Generation aircraft,
Pilatus Aircraft appointed Air Charter Services PVT (ACSPL) as its official PC-12 Sales and Service Center in India with responsibility for India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Burma and Thailand. As the official Service Center, the New Delhi-based facility will manage aircraft sales and carry out all aspects of PC-12 maintenance and warranty work. Sales
MTU Maintenance Hannover continues to provide support to U.S. carrier JetBlue Airways. The airline has been sending its IAE V2527 engines to the Hannover shop on an exclusive basis since 2005. The carrier now has further entrusted MTU Maintenance with the maintenance, repair and overhaul which now covers all of its V2533s, the most powerful
Monarch Aircraft Engineering has signed a line maintenance technical handling agreement with Air France. With immediate effect, Monarch Aircraft Engineering will provide full maintenance support for the French carrier, who operates a three times weekly service into Malaga on an Airbus A320 aircraft.
HAITEC Aircraft Maintenance GmbH based in Hahn, Germany, signed a GTA with Pullmanturair (based in Madrid, Spain) for their fleet of B747-400s, on April 10th. The first aircraft already arrived for maintenance activities (Maintenance Checks and SB/AD incorp.) for approx. 10 days at their facility in Hahn.
Constant Aviation, a maintenance, repair, and overhaul facility, has been appointed by Rolls-Royce as an AE 3007 Authorized Service Center. Constant Aviation is now able to offer Legacy 600/650 operators in-house engine maintenance, on-site parts and warranty claim processing.
