Rolls-Royce celebrated a milestone at the company’s Seletar Campus with the unveiling of a Trent 1000 engine, the first to be made in Singapore for Singapore’s very own long-haul budget carrier, Scoot. The Trent 1000, which is fully assembled and tested by a team of 80, will provide power to Scoot’s new fleet of 20
BAE Systems has been awarded a £112m contract by the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) to extend the Typhoon Availability Service (TAS) for the in-service support of the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) Typhoon fleet by 15 months. The Company will continue to work alongside the RAF in meeting Typhoon’s operational requirements until early 2016. The
Fort Worth-based Novaria Group announced the acquisition of substantially all the assets of John Hassall, a provider of aircraft engine fasteners, bolts, blade locks and other flight critical hardware, located in Long Island, N.Y. The company also manufactures a diverse set of products for use in select automotive and industrial applications. The company holds a
Airborne Maintenance & Engineering Services (AMES) completed its first Split-Scimitar Winglet installation for Sunwing Airlines on a B737-800 aircraft. Sunwing Airlines inducted the aircraft into AMES’ Wilmington facility in mid-December for the Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) modification and other maintenance bridging inspections. The work was finished on time and the aircraft redelivered prior to year-end.
HEICO Corporation reported that its Flight Support Group completed the acquisition of 80% of the equity of Aeroworks International. Financial terms were not disclosed, but HEICO stated that it expects the acquisition to be accretive to its earnings within the first year after the closing. Aeroworks is a manufacturer of both composite and metal parts
Pratt & Whitney and Kawasaki Heavy Industries met to commemorate the signing of a risk and revenue-sharing collaboration agreement for KHI to provide key hardware modules for Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower Geared Turbofan (GTF) engines. Pratt & Whitney currently has 10 worldwide GTF collaboration partners, many of which work across multiple GTF engine variants to
Summit Air announced the purchase of a second AVRO RJ85 jet to meet market demand for remote destination crew movements and ACMI (aircraft, crew maintenance and insurance) contracts. Summit Air is part of the Ledcor Group of Companies and operates a fleet of helicopters and fixed wing aircraft throughout Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest and Yukon
The strategy for the new Alitalia was unveiled on January 20th, with an unequivocal commitment by the new executive team and strategic investors to reinvent the airline. Alitalia will introduce new routes, new product and service standards, a new cost management strategy and new branding, as the foundations to build a premium global airline representing
EMRISE CORPORATION, a multi-national manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic devices and communications equipment, has received an US$8.4m production order for electronic device subsystems for In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFE&C) systems to be installed in commercial aircraft. The production order, which is for an existing, established product, is expected to begin shipping in the fourth
Monarch Aircraft Engineering released that its 110,000 ft² state-of-the-art aircraft maintenance facility at Birmingham Airport is now Boeing GoldCare approved after completing its supplier audit. This latest achievement means that all Monarch Aircraft Engineering base maintenance facilities in the UK (Birmingham, Manchester and Luton) are Boeing GoldCare approved along with its line maintenance facility at
