MRO & Production

AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, announced that a new AgustaWestland Service Centre has been opened by AVIASUR to provide maintenance and other support services for AgustaWestland commercial helicopter customers. The service centre is located at AVIASUR’s modern facility at Santiago’s Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Chile, where an official opening ceremony was held on 8th […]

Avcorp Industries signed a five-year contract extension with Boeing, to provide the wheel well for the Next-Generation 737 as well as assemblies and components that support the Next-Generation 737, 747-8, 767, and 777. The contract value is approximately CAD $80m over five years, commencing in 2013. These parts and assemblies will be manufactured and delivered

Avianca has selected Barfield, a Sabena technics company, as its provider for the repair of specific components for its Airbus A330 fleet. This A330 program comes in addition to the existing 10-year repair agreement covering Avianca’s A320 fleet. Within this additional scope, Barfield will perform test, repair and overhaul of rotable components such as avionics,

MacCarthy Aviation have been awarded a significant contract to supply lavatory upgrade kits to a major Middle Eastern airline. The contract is worth in excess of £4m with the first ship set due by the end of August. “The lavatory kits we are supplying underpins the significant investment our customer is making in upgrading their

British Airways Engineering, a leading Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) provider, has announced that its Interiors and Safety Services subsidiary has received Part 145 Repair Station Authority certification from the Federal Aviation Administration. British Airways Interiors Engineering is now authorised to provide maintenance and repair for aircraft interior fittings including flight deck and crew seating

ITT Exelis (XLS) announced the opening of its composite design and manufacturing center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The new facility provides increased capacity and enhanced automation capability for advanced commercial and military composite aircraft structures. “With the addition of automated fiber placement and tape laying capability combined with high speed machining, inspection and assembly,

As part of the Kalitta Air growth and diversification plan, Kalitta Maintenance in Oscoda, Michigan is adding a 12 bay facility to its already 32,000 ft² CF6 engine center. Kalitta Maintenance opened its CF6 engine center in July of 2011 and certified its 10 meter test cell in February of 2012. Kalitta Maintenance Engine Center

EPCOR, the AFI KLM E&M subsidiary specializing in APUs and pneumatic components, can henceforth offer its expertise and MRO services to all carriers operating aircraft in the A320 family equipped with the APS 3200 auxiliary power units (APUs) manufactured by Hamilton Sundstrand. The offer includes APU repair, maintenance and testing services, along with the supply

CTS Engines, a leading independent engine MRO, hass signed multi-year engine maintenance service agreements with Finnish cargo carrier Nordic Global Airlines and Ft. Lauderdale-based Spirit Airlines. The agreement with NGA is a multi-year power-by-the-hour engine overhaul agreement for seven CF6-80C2D1F engines operating on NGA’s fleet of MD-11Fs. Under the contract, CTS is responsible for all

Go Airlines (GoAir), one of the leading domestic carriers in India, and Lufthansa Technik have signed a 10-year component support contract, effective from August, 2012, for the carrier’s present and future fleet of 20 A320 classic and 72 A320 neo aircraft. The contract covers most of the spare parts required for the regular maintenance of