Monarch Aircraft Engineering has secured a line maintenance technical handling agreement with Air Explore. The Part-145 maintenance organisation will carry out line maintenance duties up to and including A-Checks, for the Bratislava based charter airline Air Explore’s Boeing 737-800 aircraft at Birmingham Airport in the UK.
Doric has negotiated the extension of leases with the airline Germania for 2 Airbus A319 aircraft prior to lease-end in March 2015. Both leases are to be extended for 6 years. In 2010, Lloyd Fonds entrusted Doric as the asset manager of both A319s to remarket the aircraft: the original operator, Hamburg International, had filed
In 2013, Chengdu Shuangliu, Chengdu’s only airport, handled 34.5 million passengers, making it the 5th busiest airport in China, and the busiest in Western China. This number of passenger virtually doubles the number handled in 2005 and takes the airport critically close to its 40 million passengers per annum capacity. It was also the 5th
Finmeccanica-Alenia Aermacchi signed a contract, valued at around €100m, with the Peruvian Ministry of Defense to supply two C-27J Spartan tactical airlifters. The contract, which brings the number of C-27J Spartans ordered by the Peruvian Air Force to four, also includes integrated logistic support and technical assistance. The first two aircraft, ordered in December 2013,
Boeing and Embraer opened a joint sustainable aviation biofuel research center in a collaborative effort to further establish the aviation biofuel industry in Brazil. At the Boeing-Embraer Joint Research Center in the São José dos Campos Technology Park, the companies will coordinate and co-fund research with Brazilian universities and other institutions. The research will focus
Gogo (GOGO), a leading global aero communications service provider, has received regulatory approval from the FCC to operate its next generation in-flight connectivity technology – 2Ku. The FCC approval clears a major hurdle in the path to launching the new service. The approval is a blanket approval from the FCC for Gogo to operate its
JSC Aeroflot and JSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCA) have signed an agreement for an additional 20 of the latest Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft. Aeroflot will receive the additional SSJ-100s in full specification, able to accommodate 87 passengers in a spacious dual-class configuration (12 seats in business and 75 in economy) and with a flight range
Spanish carrier Air Europa has selected Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines and TotalCare long term service support, worth US$1.1bn, for 14 new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft. Air Europa already has eight Trent 1000-powered 787-8s on order that will enter service in 2016. Juan Jose Hidalgo, President of Globalia, the parent company of Air Europa, said: “We
Unique Airmotive Services (UAS) has brought on line a new digital state-of-the-art test cell capable of testing the Honeywell APU series GTCP331-200. We will also be expanding our capabilities to also include the piece parts and accessories, including Fuel Controls, Combustors, Atomizers, etc. These additional capabilities will allow UAS to serve our already growing list
FL Technics, a global provider of tailor-made aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services, announced the start of a new cooperation with Aeroflot – the flag carrier of the Russian Federation. Under the cooperation the company will act as the carrier’s approved supplier of various spare parts in both scheduled and AOG situations. Having passed Aeroflot’s
