TAP Maintenance and Engineering Brazil S/A (TAP M&E Brazil) signed a contract with the Brazilian Navy and Brazilian Air Force to provide preventive and corrective services, aeronautical repair, overhaul and MRO services. Two contracts were signed with the Brazilian Navy, for the Naval Air Base in São Pedro da Aldeia (BAeNSPA), one for avionics components
Iraqi Airways, the national carrier of Iraq, has signed a firm purchase agreement to acquire five CS300 mainline jetliners. The agreement, which also includes options on 11 CS300 aircraft, follows a letter of intent (LOI) to purchase the aircraft that was announced by Bombardier on November 19 during the Dubai Airshow.
The Columbus Two first shipset B737-800 has been presented and delivered to Air Niugini. Columbus Two, the seat model for medium-range applications, has so become a certified reality and it will make its first flight in January 2014. The Columbus family, the range of Aviointeriors’ lightweight economy class seats presented in Hamburg just a year
Boeing and Jetairfly, part of the TUI Travel PLC, celebrated the delivery of the airline’s first 787. The airplane departed Paine Field in Everett on Tuesday, Dec. 3rd, on its delivery flight to Brussels. The 787 is scheduled to begin flying short and medium haul Jetairfly routes in early December and long haul routes between
Republic Airways Holdings has closed on the sale of Frontier Airlines to an investment fund affiliated with Indigo Partners LLC. Effective upon the closing of the sale, David Siegel, CEO and President of Frontier Airlines, resigned from Republic’s Board of Directors.
AerSale has expanded the Pentagon 2000SQL solution‘s deployment to their Roswell, New Mexico facility. “Pentagon 2000 Software is a key part of our core business processes and is an integral part of a wide range of our operations. The recently implemented Heavy Maintenance module is crucial in all aspects of aircraft maintenance, teardown and storage
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) announced delivery of two new leased Airbus A320 aircraft to Mexican low-cost carrier Interjet. The aircraft were the last of six delivered to Interjet as part of a purchase-and-leaseback transaction with GECAS. All aircraft were from the airline’s orderbook with Airbus signed in 2006.
Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services and Aeroflot Russian Airlines have agreed to the airline’s 15th 767 C-check for induction this month at Boeing Shanghai’s facility at Pudong Airport. The new agreement celebrates and continues a successful business cooperation that began in 2010 with the launch of Boeing Shanghai’s 767 and 777 maintenance support programs. Boeing Shanghai’s
Jet Aviation Teterboro received approval from the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) to perform base and line maintenance on Gulfstream G650 aircraft. Jet Aviation’s Teterboro repair station is now authorized by the FAA to provide base, line, repair and overhaul maintenance support to Gulfstream G650 aircraft. This authorization also extends to Jet Aviation’s Cayman AMO, Bermuda
Boeing has selected GKN to manufacture the Advanced Technology Winglet for the 737 MAX. Production of the winglets will take place at the GKN site at Cowes on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom, with final assembly at GKN’s facility in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Already a market success, the 737 MAX has more
