MRO & Production

The European manufacturer of turboprop aircraft ATR and the Caribbean carrier LIAT have announced the signature of a Global Maintenance Agreement (GMA) for the airline’s new fleet of ATR -600 aircraft. Signed for an initial period of 10 years, the contract will cover the four ATR 42-600s and four ATR 72-600s that will be operated […]

Harbin Hafei Airbus Composite Manufacturing Centre (HMC), a joint venture between Airbus and its Chinese partners, has started to deliver elevators for the Airbus A350 XWB programme. A ceremony was held in Harbin for the delivery of the first ship set of elevators on September 16th. The elevators manufactured at HMC are delivered to Spain-based

Erickson Air-Crane reported the signing of a Master Agreement with Sikorsky Aircraft to build fabricated aircraft assemblies. Activities under the Master Agreement scope of work will begin immediately, using a wide range of Erickson expertise in engineering, legacy aircraft production, and fabrication of aircraft assemblies. The total contract value is more than $5.6m. Erickson expects

A2B Heli Maintenance, a newly established EASA Part 145 independent commercial helicopter maintenance company, has formally opened its doors at London Oxford Airport. Headed by Andy Bloxham, Managing Director, A2B Heli moved into the newly refurbished hangar on 19th August and will specialise in the support of leading commercial helicopter types. In its first week

JETS, one of Europe’s leading independent business aviation maintenance and technical support organisations, and part of Germany’s 328 Group, has become an Authorised Service Centre for Dassault Aviation. The agreement endorses the company to undertake line maintenance on the Falcon 900 and 2000 at its expanding London Biggin Hill MRO facility and play an important

Arkefly, a premier Dutch charter airline under the German travel conglomerate TUI, has selected TP Aerospace Solutions to provide its Brake For Less (BFL) Program, which will provide the operator with guaranteed brake availability at all times and significant cost savings while entirely eliminating turn-around-time dependency, risk of unexpected high repair cost and general OEM

AAR has signed a long-term general terms agreement with Liebherr-Aerospace. Under terms of the deal, Liebherr-Aerospace will provide full support of AAR’s nose-to-tail comprehensive solution on the Airbus fleet. In addition, Liebherr-Aerospace will grant access to technical documentation, spare parts, and technical support to AAR maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) repair centers in Garden City,

Aegean, a Star Alliance member, signed with Aviointeriors, Italy, a procurement contract for their new lightweight economy class seats Columbus Two to retrofit the A320 family fleet. The seats will be delivered starting from March 2014 to have the aircraft ready in service with the new cabin configuration before the 2014 summer season.

PEMCO World Air Services (PEMCO), a leading global MRO and aircraft conversion provider, has announced an additional five-aircraft 737 PTF program with China’s postal service commencing September 2013. This deal follows the recent redelivery of its tenth freighter, an 11-position High Yield 737-400F, for Beijing-based China Postal Airlines (CPA). By this time next year, China