MRO & Production

British Airways’ line maintenance team has recently won the contract to provide technical handling for Qatar Airways’ 787 flights in Edinburgh. British Airways has also been selected this year to support the Qatar Airways operation at Dallas Fort Worth, Kigali and Moscow. British Airways already provides line maintenance services for fellow one world airline Qatar […]

TAT Technologies’ wholly-owned subsidiary Piedmont Aviation Component Services, has signed a seven year landing gear maintenance support agreement with Republic Airways Holdings, covering their Embraer E-175 fleet. The agreement covers the current fleet of 160 aircraft and the total value may exceed $45m. TAT’s President and CEO, Mr. Itsik Maaravi, commented on the new agreement:

Rheinland Air Service (RAS) has enjoyed a busy 12 months completing the expansion of its central European HQ in Mönchengladbach, near Dusseldorf, Germany, with an enhanced facility, effectively twice the size. It now offers a new, second large hangar (4,300 m²) including workshops and storage, plus space for six ATR 42/72 aircraft. The overall 8,500

FL Technics is further expanding its cooperation with CIS carriers by signing a new base maintenance agreement with a Russian carrier Yamal Airlines. Under the agreement, FL Technics will support Yamal’s Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 aircraft in its MRO hangars, located in Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania. At the moment Yamal Airlines operates a fleet

Turkish Technic, the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) arm of Turkish Airlines, and Honeywell Aerospace have extended their long term aftermarket partnership. Based at Istanbul’s Atatürk and Sabiha Gokcen Airports, Turkish Technic  will now offer depot-level MRO services for all Honeywell 131-9B APUs on Boeing 737 aircraft worldwide.  The new contract builds on the existing

Aero Asahi Corporation and its subsidiary Central Helicopter Service, have signed with Turbomeca (Safran) a 5 year extension of the SBH (“Support By the Hour”) contract covering their fleet of Arriel 2 and Arriel 1E2 engines. More than 50 engines powering AS350B3/AS365N3/S76C+ and BK117C2 helicopters are now maintained through the SBH program and used for

Aleris reported that its new rolling mill in Zhenjiang, China has attained qualification to supply aluminum aerospace plate to Bombardier Aerospace. The achievement of this milestone represents a significant step for Aleris towards supplying aluminum plate from its Zhenjiang mill for use in the production of various Bombardier aircraft. Aleris has supplied aluminum aerospace plate

PacAvi Group is spearheading a new program for conversions of Airbus A320 and Airbus A321 aircraft from passenger-to-freighter configuration. PacAvi Group CEO, Dr. Stephan Hollmann, commented on the project: “We view this as an exciting opportunity. There are currently about 600 freighters of the size category of the A320 and A321 operating globally, and this

Vector Aerospace Helicopter Services – North America (HS-NA) officially announced that it is an Airbus Helicopters D-Level certified repair center for the AS350/AS355 and EC130 helicopters. D-Level structural repairs include landing gear, main gear box, engine and component attachment points as well as fuselage / tailboom, vertical fin and horizontal stabilizer junction. Vector HS-NA’s technical