MRO & Production

Boeing and Guggenheim Aviation Partners announced an agreement for Boeing to convert three 767-300ER passenger airplanes to freighters. The Boeing Converted Freighters (BCF) will be delivered to Guggenheim Aviation Partners in 2013. Boeing will manage and engineer the project with the actual conversion taking place at ST Aerospace’s subsidiary, ST Aviation Services Company (SASCO) in

ST Aerospace broke ground to add a narrow-body aircraft hangar at its Changi facility in Singapore. The total investment in the hangar and associated equipment amounts to $11m. The new hangar is expected to be operational by the end of third quarter 2013. With the new hangar, ST Aerospace will extend its suite of services

Cargo Air, a key Bulgarian cargo charter operator, has chosen several key B737-300F Wheels and Brakes Programs offered by TP Aerospace. Firstly a multiyear Brake-For-Less (BFL) Program with TP Aerospace Solutions, providing Cargo Air guaranteed availability and cost savings while eliminating turn-around-time dependency, risk of unexpected high repair cost and OEM shortages. Secondly a three

Jet Aviation recently expanded its maintenance capability at its newly acquired FBO at Houston’s Hobby Airport. In addition, Jet Aviation expanded its ramp at the FBO in Dallas at Love Field by 48,000 ft², bringing the total facility size to more than 250,000 ft². The company hired technicians with large-cabin experience, added tooling and purchased

The Prime Minister of Bulgaria Boyko Borisov has recently inaugurated the new extended state-of-the-art MRO facility of the German-Bulgarian Joint Venture company Lufthansa Technik Sofia at Sofia Airport. The inauguration represents the official completion of the successful facility extension which started in 2011. Over the past year the company has added three additional bays to

GE Aviation is gathering hardware for the assembly of its first Passport engine for the Bombardier Global 7000 and Global 8000 aircraft. Assembly of the first full engine to test will begin by year end. Since launching the engine in 2010, GE has conducted validation tests on the fan blisk design, including two fan blade-out

Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) has signed a four-year Engine Service Agreement with Bombardier Aerospace to provide the highest level of OEM support to Learjet(i)60(i) business jet operators. The announcement was made during the National Business Aviation Association’s 65th annual meeting and convention in Orlando, Florida. Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) and Viking Air have

Australian-based TAE signed an agreement with GE Aviation to become the M601 and H80 Designated Repair Center for the Asia-Pacific region. Under this agreement, TAE will offer heavy repair services, engines rentals, line replacement unit rotable pools and field service support to all existing and future M601 and H80 engines in the Asia-Pacific region. GE

Airbus and Lufthansa Technik have signed a contract for the completion of a further three ACJ318s. The contract signature is the latest development in the successful ACJ318 program-partnership between Airbus and Lufthansa Technik which started in 2006. This increases the overall number of Airbus ACJ318 completions at Lufthansa Technik to 22. Of these, 17 ACJ318s