MRO & Production

Aeronautical Engineers reported that Vx Capital Partners have selected AEI to provide their first B737-400SF passenger to freighter conversion. The aircraft is a standard gross weight B737-400 (MSN 25109) built in 1994 and will undergo freighter modification at AEI’s Authorized Conversion Center, Commercial Jet, in Miami Florida.

PEMCO World Air Services announced a new Boeing 737 freighter conversion partnership with COOPESA (Cooperativa Autogestionaria de Servicios Aeroindustriales R.L.) in San Jose, Costa Rica. PEMCO’s expansion into Central America provides additional freighter conversion capacity to meet extraordinary demand for PEMCO’s market-leading B737-300 & -400 freighters – the only 737 freighter designed, built, certified and

UK-based passenger aircraft seat manufacturer Acro Aircraft Seating has signed an agreement with low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines to supply 30 shipsets of its Superlight seat. The deal which is worth an estimated £6m marks the company’s second major US client and equates to 5000 economy class seats including retrofitting five Spirit Airlines’ Airbus A319 aircraft

ATR Customer Support activities achieved outstanding results in 2013. The European regional aircraft manufacturer has signed this year 15 Global Maintenance Agreements (GMA) covering a total fleet of more than 160 additional aircraft. The cumulated value of all these contracts is over US$330m. This escalating success is due to ATR’s determination to build its own

Wencor Group has entered into significant long-term supply agreements with two major U.S. airlines. Both agreements leverage Wencor Groupʼs broad Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA) parts portfolio and PMA development capabilities to reduce the component maintenance costs for these two leading airline partners. The first contract includes more than 500 PMA parts for use in components,

B/E Aerospace has extended and expanded an agreement with United Technologies Corporation (UTC), to provide aerospace fasteners, hardware, consumables, and logistical services to UTC’s aerospace business units for their global operations. The agreement with UTC is through December 31, 2022 and is initially valued at approximately $950m. B/E Aerospace will supply UTC’s aerospace business units

Associated Air Center (AAC) has been awarded a new custom interior completion contract for a green Boeing 787-8 BBJ aircraft. The aircraft interior is already under full design review. AAC has also kicked off detailed planning, staffing, training and facilitization in anticipation of the green aircraft’s delivery from Boeing in mid-2014. The completion contract was

FL Technics Jets, a global provider of tailor-made maintenance, repair and overhaul services for business aviation has been granted certificate of approval to provide line and base maintenance services for Bombardier CL-600-2B19 family aircraft. The company has therefore added new aircraft type – a popular Bombardier CRJ100/200/440 and a CRJ200-derived high-class Bombardier Challenger 850 business

AeroRepair Corp has been awarded a multi-year contract to provide wheel and tire support for Air Wisconsin Airlines’ fleet of 71 Bombardier CRJ-200 Aircraft. The contract requires the total wheel and tire repair and overhaul, associated spares and logistics support for Air Wisconsin’s hubs located at Philadelphia, Washington DC – National and Charlotte, NC and

Comtek Advanced Structures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Avcorp Industries, has been awarded a contract to design and manufacture the floor panels on Bombardier Aerospace’s Global 7000 and Global 8000 aircraft. Comtek will commence design engineering in early 2014. Comtek currently supplies floor panels to Bombardier Aerospace for the CRJ700, CRJ900, CRJ1000, Q400 and Learjet 85