MRO & Production

LOT Polish Airlines has signed a long-term component support agreement with AFI KLM E&M for its fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners, which will ultimately comprise eight aircraft. LOT is scheduled to deploy the Dreamliner in January 2013. The signing of this contract with LOT Polish Airlines marks the launch of the 787 component service offer

SR Technics has redelivered the 50th heavy maintenance check on an Airbus A319 aircraft for easyJet out of its Malta facility. In addition to the heavy maintenance checks, the Malta team has also completed eight end-of-lease (EOL) checks for the airline, a further four are planned to be completed by the end of 2012. All

Effective immediately, Lufthansa Technik AG can offer customers from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) airworthiness services for the Boeing 747-400 and 747-8 aircraft types as a CAMO (Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisation). Lufthansa Technik received the relevant approval from UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) for its Hamburg location on July 1, 2012. The background to

GE Aviation has upgraded repair warranties for CF6-80C, CF6-80E and CFM International CFM56 engine parts. Warranty hours for GE repaired CF6-80C/80E engine parts have tripled to 6,000 hours and CFM56 warranties have doubled to 4,000 hours. “The enhanced warranty program demonstrates GE’s commitment to lead the engine services market in meeting the cost and technology

MTU Maintenance Hannover has repaired the group’s 3,000th V2500 engine. It was delivered to US aircraft lessor ILFC (International Lease Finance Corp). MTU Maintenance is the market share leader for maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services regarding this engine type. Co-developed by MTU Aero Engines, the V2500 powers the Airbus 320 family of aircraft.

Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has signed an agreement with Avion Express to provide a worldwide support structure for the use of SMART (Specialised Monarch AOG Response Team.) SMART, operates under MAEL’s EASA 145 approval and has a highly experienced team of engineers on 24/7 standby 365 days a year. Under the terms of the agreement

Airbus has delivered the front fuselage for the first flyable A350 XWB (MSN1) to the Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Toulouse (France). The impressive 21 metre long section is already equipped with its systems and was flown in from Airbus’ site in Saint-Nazaire (France) by the Airbus Beluga transport aircraft. The A350 XWB front fuselage