MRO & Production

AAR signs five-year commercial supply chain contract

AAR has signed a five-year contract to become the sole supplier of approximately 25,000 consumable and expendable line-item parts for a major commercial airline customer. The contract is valued at approximately $42m in annual revenue. AAR will act as an aggregator, procuring and managing the parts and providing them to the customer’s main warehouse facility […]

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Nexcelle delivers first major nacelle component for GE Aviation’s Passport Business Jet engine

The Nexcelle joint venture of Aircelle (Safran) and GE Aviation’s Middle River Aircraft Systems – which is building engine nacelles for the next generation of integrated propulsion systems – has marked a key program milestone by shipping its initial major production component: the no. 1 inlet for GE Aviation’s Passport business jet engine. This represents

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Norwegian Air Shuttle and Lufthansa Technik extend wheels & brakes services contract

Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, one of the leading low-cost carriers in Europe, and Lufthansa Technik AG have extended the current wheels & brakes services contract for the airline’s Boeing 737 fleet. The new contract runs over a period of seven years and also covers pooling and home-base lease services for Norwegian Air Shuttle’s growing Boeing

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Bombardier enrolls Eurolot’s three newest aircraft in Q400 Smart Parts Program

Eurolot S.A. of Warsaw, Poland has reaffirmed its confidence in Bombardier’s Smart Parts program by enrolling its three newest Q400 NextGen aircraft. Eurolot, which took delivery of the new aircraft on October 29th, 2013, now has a total of 11 Q400 NextGen aircraft enrolled in the program. The Smart Parts agreement is customized to meet

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AEI redelivers sixth ASL B737-400SF 11 Pallet conversion

Aeronautical Engineers (AEI) redelivered the sixth B737-400SF 11 Pallet freighter to the ASL Aviation Group. The sixth freighter to deliver is a high gross weight B737-400SF (MSN 25181) built in 1992. The conversion was performed at AEI’s Authorized Conversion Center, Commercial Jet Inc. in Miami Florida. The aircraft has been ferried to Paris France where

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Lufthansa Technik to provide Total Component Support for Boeing 787 fleet of Air Canada

Lufthansa Technik AG is once again expanding its involvement in the provision of technical support for the Boeing 787, after signing an agreement with Air Canada. Canada’s largest airline has signed a 12-year Total Component Support TCS contract with Lufthansa Technik, starting with the delivery of the first aircraft from Boeing to Air Canada in

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First Sharklet production retrofit completed for Turkish Airlines

Turkish Airlines will become the first European airline to operate A320 Family aircraft with production-retrofitted Sharklet wingtip devices. This will follow the installation, which has just been completed, by Turkish Technic MRO of Sharklets onto the first of nine A321s to be retrofitted for Turkish Airlines. All nine aircraft will be upgraded for the airline

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Boeing 777X wind tunnel testing under way

Boeing released that low-speed wind tunnel tests have begun for the Boeing 777X, a major milestone in airplane development. Testing started on Dec. 5 at QinetiQ’s test facility in Farnborough, U.K. Wind tunnel models allow experts to test many different configurations for the airplane. Low-speed tests measure airplane performance with a variety of high-lift surface

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FL Technics invests US$4m in high-tech aviation equipment

FL Technics, a global provider of comprehensive aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services, has announced its plans to invest almost US$4m into high-tech aircraft maintenance equipment at its newly-launched MRO hangar in Kaunas, Lithuania. The latest equipment will support new FL Technics 8000 m² MRO centre in servicing both narrow and wide body modern aircraft,

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