MRO & Production

Jet Aviation has developed an STC to update, in partnership with Honeywell, soon-to-be obsolete cockpit displays with DU-875 LCD units. The partnership provides a trade-in credit for each DU-870 replaced with a DU-875 before 2018. It further permits displays to be replaced one at a time or all at once. CRT units face obsolescence soon […]

Av8 MRO has introduced a new division within the company, Av8 PMA, which specializes in engineering, certification, and manufacturing of specialized replacement parts under their FAA-PMA (Parts Manufacturer Approval) for aircraft operators, parts distributors, and certified repair stations. The Houston-based company has over 20 years of experience certifying parts and used that skill to develop

West Star Aviation will expand their East Alton (ALN) facility with the addition of a new state-of-the-art hangar. The 64,200 ft² hangar, office and shop facility will be adjacent to West Star’s current facility. This new hangar, to be labeled ‘Hangar 66’, will be equivalent to the hangar that was built in 2014. It will

Rolls-Royce is further extending its global network of Authorised Service Centres (ASC) for its CorporateCare® customers. The global ASC network forms an essential component of Rolls-Royce’s services portfolio for business aircraft and adds to its own existing global aftermarket capabilities. Today Rolls-Royce has 74 ASCs in place with key maintenance providers worldwide allowing it to

Lufthansa Technik AERO Alzey (LTAA) and Regional Jet (the subsidiary of Nordica and LOT) have signed a 5 year agreement for the provision of Engine MRO services for Regional Jet´s CF34 Engines powering their Bombardier CRJ fleet. Regional Jet, the new ACMI provider, is serving routes for Nordica within Europe from its headquarters in Tallinn

Monarch Aircraft Engineering has signed a new base maintenance agreement with Icelandair. The airline is a new base maintenance customer for MAEL who will carry out C check for Icelandair’s Boeing 757 cargo aircraft. The maintenance work will be carried out at Monarch Aircraft Engineering’s Luton Airport hangar and is due to commence at the

Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse has added a new building at its site in Campsas near Toulouse. The site specializes in manufacturing mechanical precision parts for air management systems. The 3,300 m² site extension represents an investment of €6.5m and will allow the company to introduce new means of production in order to meet its customers’ requirements based

Bombardier has opened its new purposefully designed interior facility at its Tucson Service Centre. The facility features a fully climate-controlled work environment and expanded capacity, regrouping its interior design expertise and talent in one atelier. In addition, the meticulous state-of-the-art cabinet workshop has tripled its footprint from 1,092 ft² to 4,800 ft², and will complement

Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL) has signed a base maintenance agreement with Virgin Atlantic. The airline is a new customer for MAEL who will carry out C1 checks for Virgin Atlantic’s Boeing 787-9 fleet between 2017 and 2021. All the maintenance work will be carried out at Monarch Aircraft Engineering’s state of the art facility

StandardAero and Martin Aviation signed a three-year Authorized Service Center agreement for PT6A engine services at the 2017 NBAA-BACE event in Orlando, Florida. The agreement will provide operators of King Air, Pilatus, Cessna Caravan, Cheyenne and TBM aircraft the advantage of a one-stop solution for both engine and airframe services. Under the agreement, StandardAero and