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Boeing Commercial Airplanes Engineering realigns for future growth and competitiveness

Boeing is establishing new centers for engineering design, propulsion and out-of-production airplane support for Commercial Airplanes as it continues to lay the foundation for increased competitiveness and profitable growth in its second century. The company, which marks its 100-year anniversary in 2016, will establish engineering design centers in Washington state, South Carolina and Southern California.

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Thomson Airways takes delivery of first 787 Dreamliner

Thomson Airways announced the delivery of the airline’s first Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The airplane, the first of eight 787s Thomson Airways has on order, is the first to be delivered to a UK airline. On July 8th, Thomson’s first long-haul Dreamliner flights will operate from Manchester to Florida and Glasgow to Cancun. Thomson will also

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Direct Maintenance expands line maintenance capability in Tanzania

Direct Maintenace released that the two Tanzanian line stations at Dar es Salaam (DAR) and Kilimanjaro (JRO) are now approved for line maintenance under the EASA Part-145 approval of Direct Maintenance. Following an initial start during 2012 for launch customer Qatar Airways, both stations were recently added to the EASA approval, to offer the available

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EasyFly Colombia selects ALKYM

Volartec welcomes EasyFly as the first operator based in Colombia. It takes the number of Latin American countries where Alkym has been implemented to ten. EasyFly has signed contracts to implement ALKYM aircraft maintenance control and management software. EasyFly will undertake the implementation Project beginning in July when they will get underway with the 10

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SFS intec appoints Avio-Diepen as authorized global distributor

SFS intec, a global development partner, manufacturer and supplier of precision cold formed components, special fasteners and mechanical fastening elements, has appointed Avio-Diepen as one of their full-line authorized global distributors of SFS intec’s commercial aircraft products. “In representing SFS intec, we are taking another valuable step forward in supplying high quality safety products and

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Israel Aerospace Industries releases financial figures for Q1 2013

IAI’ sales in the first quarter of 2013 amounted to US$849m, compared to US$893m in the corresponding period last year. Export sales accounted for 79% of total sales, amounting to US$673m. Sales to the military market accounted for 72% of total sales. Gross income in the first quarter of 2013 amounted to US$122m (14.4% of

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GKN Aerospace opens new US business jet engine integration facility

GKN Aerospace is to open a new 24,000 ft² facility where it will consolidate the company’s integration activity for Honeywell’s HTF7000 series of business jet engines. The new facility will sit alongside the Honeywell operation in Phoenix, AZ and will pod Honeywell’s engines into GKN Aerospace designed and manufactured nacelles for HTF7000 powered aircraft –

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LATAM Airlines selects Nordisk Ultralite for ULD fleet replacement

Nordisk Aviation Products reported its agreement with LATAM Airlines to supply 3,517 UltraLite Unit Load Devices (ULDs) to replace the airline’s entire stock of cargo containers. The deal, valued at $9.3m, supports LATAM’s commitment to reduce carbon emissions and will save the airline an estimated 1 million gallons in fuel, or as much as $3.2m

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