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EGAT completes 50th Heavy Check for Asiana Airlines

Evergreen Aviation Technologies (EGAT) has completed the 50th Airframe Heavy Maintenance Check for Asiana Airlines. The recently completed  50th maintenance event on its B747-400 airframe included full cabin upgrade modifications with new seating and enhanced In-Flight Entertainment system installations. Since 2004, EGAT has been an airframe maintenance and interior retrofit service partner for Asiana on narrow

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Jet Midwest Technik scores paint contract with Skywest Airlines

MRO and commercial aircraft paint facility Jet Midwest Technik has recently entered into an agreement with SkyWest Airlines to perform  “Premium” aircraft paint services for the airline’s CRJ-200 fleet currently operated on behalf of United Express. Jet Midwest Technik is currently painting two continuous lines of aircraft at their 1,200,000 sq. ft MRO facility at

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Air New Zealand orders up to 12 ATR 72-600s

Air New Zealand and European regional aircraft manufacturer ATR announced the order of 7 firm new generation ATR 72-600s, plus options for 5 additional aircraft. The deal, subject to contract signing, is at list prices valued at more than $270 million, including options. The first of the 68 seat ATR72-600 aircraft will be delivered to Air

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Wizz Air and Avolon close sale and lease back transaction

Wizz Air reported the closing of a sale and lease back transaction with Avolon, the international aircraft leasing group, for three new Airbus A320 aircraft to be delivered in the first half of 2012. This is the first sale and lease back transaction between Wizz Air and Avolon under the terms of which Avolon will

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Boeing 737 program begins production at higher rate

Boeing began building the first Next-Generation 737 at the program’s new production rate of 35 airplanes a month. The rate is increasing from 31.5 airplanes a month to meet worldwide market demand for the best-selling single-aisle airplane. Employees loaded chords and webs manufactured by the Boeing Fabrication division into the company’s newest automated spar assembly tool,

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FLY Leasing closes acquisition of 49 aircraft

FLY Leasing completed the acquisition of a $1.4 billion portfolio of 49 aircraft. These 49 aircraft increase FLY’s fleet to a total of 109 aircraft on lease to 53 airlines in 29 countries. The purchase price was fully funded from FLY’s existing unrestricted cash and the assumption of existing non-recourse debt. The portfolio consists of 23 Airbus

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CIRCOR Aerospace to supply actuation packages for Messier-Bugatti-Dowty

The CIRCOR Aerospace Products Group has been selected by Messier-Bugatti-Dowty (Safran Group) to manufacture a complete suite of 20 actuators for multiple business and regional aircraft platforms. CIRCOR Aerospace will perform the manufacturing, final assembly and testing of these actuators at its Corona, California facilities.  CIRCOR Aerospace was previously awarded several design and development and legacy

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Air Lease Corporation reports additional acquisitions and lease placements

Air Lease Corporation reported continuing lease placements and acquisitions of 12 additional aircraft.  ALC has concluded the following lease placements from its order book: – one new Airbus A330-300 leased to Asiana Airlines (Korea). – two new Boeing 737-800s (MSNs 41299 and 41300) leased to Korean Airlines – two new Embraer 190 LRs leased to Aeromexico.

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