Lufthansa Technik AG is now the sole owner of the American company AirLiance Materials, one of the world’s largest suppliers of quality-assured used aircraft spare parts. Lufthansa Technik announced that it had taken over the shares previously held by the two minority owners United Airlines and Air Canada. AirLiance Materials’ new President and CEO is
Robinson Helicopter Company released that it produced 356 helicopters in 2011 (212 R44s, 88 R66s and 56 R22s), more than double 2010’s production of 162. While the R44 remains Robinson’s top selling helicopter, the response to its latest model, the R66 Turbine, has been very strong. The R66 was FAA certificated in October 2010. As
In a major competitive win, ARINC Incorporated has been awarded the contract for passenger check-in and departure systems at the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport, currently under construction. Under the contract, ARINC will install its industry-leading passenger solution vMUSETM, which is fully compliant with the IATA CUPPS standard for common-use passenger systems. The company will also
On the back of the recent launch of direct Etihad Airways flights from Abu Dhabi to Düsseldorf, and last month’s historic deal between the United Arab Emirates flag carrier and Germany’s second largest airline, airberlin technik – the technical wing of airberlin – continues to grow its maintenance customer base. At Düsseldorf, airberlin technik will
The U.S. Army has awarded EADS North America a $212.7 million contract to deliver 39 UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopters (LUH) as part of its total acquisition plan. Thirty-two of these Lakotas will be produced in the Army’s Security and Support (S&S) Battalion configuration. EADS North America has already delivered 198 UH-72A Lakotas to the
ExecuJet Asia announces that their Malaysian operation based at Subang Airport in Kuala Lumpur was recently awarded the first direct Cayman Islands Aircraft Maintenance Organisation approval in Malaysia, known as an OTAR Part 145 Option 2 approval. This will permit ExecuJet Malaysia to work on Cayman registered Bombardier Global Express Series, Challenger 300, Challenger 604/605
Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the state-owned flag carrier of Bangladesh, will send its CF6-50 engines to MTU Hannover for maintenance. The three-year exclusive agreement involves 12 engines powering Biman’s fleet of DC-10-30s. Biman has been a customer to MTU Maintenance Hannover since 2005 and, more recently, also awarded a contract to repair and overhaul CFM56-7s powering its
Aeronautical Engineers has been selected by an undisclosed customer to provide one B737-300SF 10 Pallet Passenger to Freighter Conversion. The aircraft, a B737-300, was built in 1993 and is currently undergoing freighter modification and a dual FMS UNS1FW modification at AEI’s Authorized Conversion Center, Commercial Jet, which is located in Miami, Florida.
AIR-TEC Aviation Maintenance has signed an agreement with GE Aviation to become an Authorized Service Center for the M601 and H80 turboprop engines. As part of the agreement, AIR-TEC will offer comprehensive line maintenance, removals and re-installations of engines and LRUs and engine spares for the M601 and H80 engine families. In addition, AIR-TEC will
Boeing successfully achieved a production rate of 35 airplanes a month for the Next-Generation 737, with the delivery of the first airplane produced at the new rate to AWAS Aviation Services. Norwegian Air Shuttle will lease the airplane from AWAS. Employees will focus on stabilizing the production rate at 35 a month while investments are
