MRO & Production

Norwegian Air Shuttle, the third largest low-cost airline in Europe, has become the largest customer for the Boeing landing gear exchange program with a new service contract covering an additional 15 Next-Generation 737s. Landing gear must be overhauled and recertified every 10 years, or after 18,000 cycles. Participants in the landing gear exchange program receive […]

Oman Air has selected Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation for a long-term agreement to be the maintenance provider for the APS2300 Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) on its existing fleet of five Embraer 175 series aircraft. The APS2300 APU is currently on board more than 800 Embraer 170/190 aircraft around the world and is operated by more than

MTU Maintenance Hannover has won another customer, the German express cargo operator AeroLogic, for the maintenance of the GE90 engines. Under the exclusive contract, the company will be responsible for maintenance services of all GE90-110B engines powering AeroLogic’s Boeing 777F fleet including their owned spare engines. The long-term contract has a value of more than

Lufthansa Technik AERO Alzey (LTAA) celebrated the final test  run after servicing the 1.000th turbofan engine of the General Electric (GE) CF34-series. The first engine of the CF34-series of the American manufacturer was serviced by LTAA already in 1991. Since then the engine type has become a backbone in the service portfolio of the company

Dassault Falcon signed an agreement with Indian charter operator Taj Air to establish a Dassault Falcon Authorized Line Service Station at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (VIDP) in Mumbai. The facility, which is already operational, will provide scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and inspections for all Falcon 2000 models. Initially, the facility will serve Indian registered Falcons

SR Technics, part of the Mubadala Aerospace MRO network, and Air Tahiti Nui have signed a contract for the completion of three cabin modifications on Airbus A340-300s. This will be carried out in parallel with C-Checks on the aircraft. The modification involves converting the existing three class cabin configuration to two classes, with the complete

StandardAero has signed an exclusive long-term service agreement with Brit Air to maintain their CF34-8C5A1 engines on their current and future fleet of Bombardier CRJ1000 regional jets, as well as their CF34-8C5B1 engines on a selected number of their Bombardier CRJ700s. Brit Air, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air France, is one of the largest European

ST Aerospace and AirAsia jointly announced that the companies have signed a 10-year agreement worth approximately US$80m (S$102m).  The contract involves component repair management Maintenance-By-the-Hour (MBH) support for 75 of AirAsia’s Airbus A320 aircraft, and is expected to commence immediately. ST Aerospace is currently supporting AirAsia on an existing component repair management MBH programme for

Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation has been selected to install its APS3200 Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) on Nasair’s future purchased and leased Airbus A320 series aircraft and to retrofit Nasair’s nine current A320 aircraft fleet from the Honeywell 131-9A APU to the Hamilton Sundstrand APS3200 APU. Nasair also selected Hamilton Sundstrand for a long-term fixed price agreement