Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has signed a contract and will enter into an agreement, with Flybe UK, for the provision of Bombardier Q400 and Embraer 175/195 line maintenance in the UK at Birmingham, Manchester, London Gatwick and East Midlands airports. Commencing on Wednesday May 1st 2013, the agreement will also include the provision of Bombardier […]
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On April 29th, GE Aviation celebrated the grand opening of its new jet engine components factory in Auburn that will create hundreds of jobs. The 300,000-ft² advanced manufacturing plant will produce precision, super-alloy machined parts for GE jet engines that will power future commercial and military aircraft, and also support the vast fleet of GE
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Following the expansion of its Scope of Work with the Airbus A380 in 2012, Direct Maintenance has commenced offering Boeing B747-8 line maintenance support. The inaugural event took place at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on the occasion of launch customer Cathay Pacific Cargo deploying its first B747-8F freighter service into Europe. Cathay Pacific Cargo is the
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Flying Colours, the Ontario, Canada based aviation Company specializing in business aircraft completions, maintenance and refurbishments, has been appointed by Beechcraft as an Authorized Service Centre (ASC) for the entire King Air, Baron and Bonanza product lines. The new service centre status will offer Canadian owners of these models a convenient one stop centre for
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Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has completed a cabin reconfiguration modification for the Greek airline, Astra Airways. Under the terms of the agreement Monarch’s Part 21J Design Organisation Approval, Monarch Design Services provided a modification which was successfully embodied on their Airbus A320 aircraft.
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Messier-Bugatti-Dowty (Safran), inaugurated the company’s new landing gear production facility at its plant in Mirabel, near Montréal. The inauguration represents the culmination of more than a year of construction, and total investments of C$58m. The company has received significant support from the Quebec government for its expansion and modernization program, through the Quebec Ministry of
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On April 9th, Ameco Beijing completed Boeing 737-800 landing gear exchange and overhaul for Souty Korean based T’way Air. It is planned that Ameco will perform another Boeing 737-800 landing gear overhaul for the airline in November, 2014. T’way Air operates five Boeing 737-800 aircraft with regular and charter routes in Japan, Thailand and Taiwan,
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Boeing Canada Winnipeg announced plans to increase its Murray Park Road manufacturing site by more than 22%, primarily to house new composites work for Boeing’s 737 MAX airplane. The building will be expanded by 14,000 m² to a total of 62,000 m² of manufacturing space. It will be used mainly to construct the one-piece composite
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Aeronautical Engineers has been selected by Kahala Aviation of Ireland to provide two firm 737-400SF 11 Pallet Configuration conversions, with options for two additional conversions to be started in May of 2013. The first aircraft, a B737-400, MSN 25052 was built in 1991 and will be converted at one of AEI’s North American Conversion Facilities.
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The vertical tail section for the first A380 for Qatar Airways has been painted with the airline’s trademark oryx logo at Airbus facilities in Hamburg. The painting was completed earlier this week and the assembly of the airline’s first A380 is set to begin this month, for delivery in early 2014. The distinctive Qatar Airways
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