Central Europe aviation training centre, Baltic Aviation Academy, has signed a successful contract with Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). The one year contract includes Airbus A320 type rating training, as well as Boeing 737 CL and ATR 72 full flight simulator dry leases which will be executed at Baltic Aviation Academy training centre in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Lufthansa Technik AG enlarges its product portfolio and announced the opening of the third US location after Everett and Renton for Aircraft Production Inspection of Boeing aircraft at North Charleston/South Carolina. The first Boeing 787s have already been successfully supported and the Lufthansa Technik inspectors are permanently on-site. Marketed under the name of Aircraft Production
Ontic, a BBA Aviation company, has appointed Air Parts & Supply Company or “APSCO”, located in Miami, FL as its exclusive world-wide distributor for its Woodward Governors/Synchronizers/Synchrophasers product line. Ontic supports many major OEM’s, including Woodward, for the last 50 years by providing a guaranteed source of factory-new, OEM-pedigreed spare parts and authorized repair services
Aviation Technical Services (ATS) and UTair Aviation have entered into a service agreement for ATS to supply maintenance and engineering services to the Russian passenger carrier on eight B767‐200 aircraft. The program will consist of modifying the existing 170 passenger configuration aircraft to a 255 passenger configuration, along with integrating and maintaining the aircraft to
Airbus Helicopters’ EC225 presence in the African oil and gas heli-lift market will expand following delivery of an additional workhorse rotorcraft to SonAir, which is to deploy this long-range helicopter on operations in Angola. A handover ceremony in Marignane, France marked the EC225’s delivery, with this latest aircraft joining SonAir’s Airbus Helicopters-built fleet of heavy
Triumph Group reported that its subsidiary, Triumph Aerostructures-Vought Aircraft Division, has been selected by Airbus to furnish the wing reinforcement kit that allows for the installation of Sharklets on the Airbus A319 and A320 in-service aircraft. The kit consists of multiple subassemblies and components that reinforce the wing for the Sharklet loads. The multi-year contract
Air Lease Corporation announced long term lease agreements with Novair for three new Airbus A321neo aircraft, which are scheduled to begin delivery in 2017. Novair is based in Stockholm, Sweden and owned by Switzerland’s Kuoni Travel Group. These aircraft are from ALC’s order book from Airbus.
Defence and security company Saab has signed an agreement with Germany’s Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH to provide maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for landing gear equipment across the complete Embraer E-Jet family of regional aircraft. Saab’s business area Support and Services has a well-known and long-established expertise within the field of aircraft component maintenance. Saab
ATSG announced new dry-lease agreements for two Boeing 767-200 freighters to Cargojet, a Canadian airline, for terms of up to three years beginning in the second and third quarters of 2014. These aircraft are in addition to the two 767-200 freighters Cargojet currently leases from CAM. ATSG also dry-leases two Boeing 767-300 freighters to Amerijet,
AJW Aviation has signed a three year agreement with Atitech, one of Europe’s largest MROs based in Naples, Italy, for the provision of integrated consumables management services. This will utilise the new innovative barcode scanning App that AJW has developed and deliver support for Atitech’s growing customer base across the Airbus and Boeing aircraft families.
