AirTran Airways signed an exclusive agreement with JET Aircraft Maintenance, a designated service provider of Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners EcoPower engine wash services. Under the agreement, AirTran will use EcoPower engine wash services on its fleet of 143 aircraft, which consists of Boeing 737-700s and 717-200s aircraft.
Yemen Airways, has selected Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners for a 10-year, $90 million Fleet Management Program agreement. The agreement covers all of the owned A310 aircraft in Yemen Airways fleet, which are powered by Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines. The agreement covers all engine maintenance as well as engine health monitoring of the
Volvo Aero and Rolls-Royce have entered into a risk and revenue sharing agreement for the Trent XWB engine for the Airbus A350XWB aircraft, under which Volvo Aero will develop and manufacture the intermediate compressor case, a key engine component. Volvo Aero Corporation estimates the value of the contract to be approximately 40 billion SEK over
GE-Aviation and SAFRAN announced agreement on a new joint venture company to cooperatively develop, produce and support engine nacelles for the next-generation single-aisle commercial airliners. The agreement covers complete nacelles and nacelle subsystems
Pratt & Whitney and its joint venture partner, Turkish Airlines Technic broke ground on a new CFM56 and V2500 engine overhaul facility in Istanbul on July 14th. Once fully operational, the 25,000-square-meter (269,000-square-foot) center is expected to overhaul up to 200 engines annually and employ up to 550 people, many of whom will be from
Ukrainian passenger and cargo carrier Donbassaero Airlines has selected Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners for a five-year maintenance service agreement. The exclusive agreement covers all engine maintenance for the fleet’s four Airbus A320 aircraft powered by V2500 engines.
Capital Cargo International Airlines, a global airport-to-airport freight transporter, has selected Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners for a five-year, Line Maintenance Services agreement. The agreement covers specific as well as any other on-condition Line Maintenance Services that Capital Cargo International Airlines may require for entry into service aircraft, as well as future owned or
Hamilton Sundstrand has signed an exclusive agreement with Saab Aerotech to supply spare parts to support repair and overhaul of Hamilton Sundstrand components installed on Saab commercial aircraft and others. Over the course of the 10-year agreement, Saab Aerotech will receive dependable, timely, and quality material and technical support. Hamilton Sundstrand has similar agreements in
QuEST, a leading provider of outsourced engineering services and manufacturing announced that QuEST Manufacturing, its wholly owned subsidiary, is setting up a dedicated sheet metal fabrication facility for aerospace in its 300 acre Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Belgaum, Karnataka, India. This facility would be in close proximity to machining and special processing facilities and
AAR has received an order to provide containerized roll-in/out platforms (CROP) for the U.S. Army, valued at $26 million. The specialized equipment, which is used primarily to transport ammunition, will be manufactured by AAR SUMMA Technology in Cullman, Alabama through June 2011. The order was placed as part of a five-year requirements contract that was
