The first A350 XWB – MSN001 – now showing its completed wings, has moved to its next phase of ground testing, from Roger Béteille A350 XWB FAL “Station 30” to the Clément Ader area “Station 18” in Toulouse. The aircraft is structurally complete and shows the installed winglets, belly fairing panels, main landing gear doors.
Honeywell Aerospace has extended its strategic partnership with China Eastern Airlines, signing several agreements to increase the safety, efficiency and performance of its growing fleet of aircraft. Through these agreements, Honeywell will provide a range of avionics products for 58 new Boeing 737NG aircraft, scheduled to be delivered over the next five years. Honeywell will
JorAMCo won its first maintenance service contract with the Kazakhstan based airline Air Astana. JorAMCo will, among other things, perform C-checks on three of Air Astana’s Embraers 190. The first-time collaboration between the two companies is set to take place in March and June of this year, and with JorAMCo’s experience and expertise in delivering
MRO Exchange LLC announced the launch of MROmarketplace.com, the aviation industry’s first online marketplace that facilitates the procurement of aircraft maintenance repair, and overhaul projects by maintenance repair organizations (MROs) and other aircraft service providers. “MROmarketplace.com addresses an important need within the aviation MRO industry- the procurement of maintenance, repair and overhaul projects by MROs
ADSOFTWARE, one of the leading international aviation software firms, released that Air Cote d’Ivoire, the national carrier of Ivory Coast has signed with ADSoftware to implement AIRPACK Fleet Management System and Logistics Solutions. AIRPACK is comprised of AirTime (fleet management – CAMO), AirStock (inventory control – logistics), AirDoc (documentation management), AirUser (security management). In February
STS Component Solutions announced the expansion of their service and support offerings into the helicopter and business jet markets. This growth is a result of the development of some new OEM partnerships that have been established with the Donaldson Company, Skurka Aerospace and Esterline Mason in addition to increasing the current portfolio support in these
Air Pacific, Fiji’s national carrier soon to be flying as ‘Fiji Airways’, announced that it had selected two major international aviation banks for European export credit financing for its three new A330-200 aircraft. The two banks are German-based: KfW IPEX-Bank and Helaba. The selection of these two well-known international banking partners is the result of
Astra Airlines chooses Turkish Technic as the Landing Gear Maintenance Services Provider for its Airbus A320 aircraft. The newly signed contract is the first business agreement between the two parties. The services will be carried out at Turkish Technic Istanbul facilities in February 2013.
Airbus and Thai Airways International (THAI) have signed an agreement for Maintenance Training Collaboration to develop a long term strategic partnership. As part of this, THAI would become Airbus’ local maintenance training centre in the region and will initially provide maintenance type-training capabilities for A320 and A330. This partnership, based in Bangkok, is aimed at
AAR and its joint venture partner have completed the sale of 10 Boeing 737-400 aircraft to Malaysian Airline System Berhad (MAS), which the Company announced in November 2012. The sale is consistent with the Company’s stated goal to reduce its investment in aircraft leasing. AAR’s portfolio now includes four aircraft held in joint ventures and
