MRO & Production

StandardAero Business Aviation has been certified as an authorized testing facility for the Honeywell TFE731-50 engine. The new testing capability is being offered at StandardAero’s Houston, Texas (IAH) facility. StandardAero conducted its first TFE731-50 engine test in April. The TFE731-50 is the most recent engine certified by Honeywell. StandardAero is the only facility, other than […]

Liebherr-Aerospace and Brit Air have signed a Repair-by-the-Hour agreement for components of the integrated air management systems (ATA 21, 25, 30, 36) on board the airline’s CRJ 700/1000 regional aircraft. Brit Air is a fully owned subsidiary of HOP, Air France’s regional carrier based in Morlaix (France). The five-year agreement ensures Brit Air component availability,

Delta TechOps, the maintenance division of Delta Air Lines, has received the Approved Organization Exposition (AOE) certificate of the Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB), creating opportunities for Delta TechOps to offer its maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services to operators licensed by the JCAB. The JCAB approval covers Turbine Engines (initially CFM56-5B series and CFM56-7B

Nextant Aerospace, maker of the Nextant 400XTi, the world’s only remanufactured business jet, has announced Jet Aviation Geneva as an authorized service center for Europe. Signed at EBACE, the contract will see Jet Aviation Geneva provide maintenance services for Nextant’s growing fleet of aircraft across the continent. Just last month the companies signed a similar

Embraer selected important suppliers for the second-generation E-Jets, whose commercial launch should occur this year. This new family of jets is expected to go into service in 2018. Intertechnique, a company belonging to the Zodiac Aerospace Group, will supply the systems for engine and APU fuel feed, pressure refueling, fuel transfer, fuel tank inerting and

Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL), has signed a line maintenance technical handling agreement with Sunwing Airlines. With immediate effect MAEL will provide support for the Canadian based airline’s Boeing 737NG aircraft operating at Leeds Bradford airport.

ATR, the European manufacturer of turboprop aircraft, and Rheinland Air Service GmbH (RAS), a German company specializing in aircraft maintenance, signed a service and collaboration agreement appointing RAS a new member of ATR’s network of partner maintenance centers. Adding RAS to ATR’s MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) network attests to the compliance of its maintenance

Werner Aero Services, a global leader in the aviation industry, has increased its ATR72 spare parts holdings in Singapore. The company has located a substantial pool of rotables which is available on an exchange basis. This initiative will provide customers in the region with considerable savings of time and money. “It is our vision to

SR Technics, part of the Mubadala Aerospace MRO network, and the French airline Aigle Azur will establish a joint venture (JV) to provide all line and light maintenance activities for the airline’s Airbus A320 and future A330 fleets. Operations will start in July in Paris-Orly. This will be the main country hub for SR Technics

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has granted ATR, the European manufacturer of turboprop aircraft, certification to operate its new ATR 42-600 and ATR 72-600 in temperatures as low as -45°C at take-off and landing. This certification means that ‘-600’ series ATRs can now fly with other ATR versions already certified to operate in particularly