MRO & Production

Turkish Technic and Onur Air signed a five year component pool services agreement for the carriers A320 Family fleet. Pool agreement covers access to all Turkish Technic component stocks, logistic support, engineering support and shop visits for components of 22 A320 Family aircraft.

Eurocopter delivered the first A350 XWB jetliner passenger door produced at its Donauwörth, Germany facility. This represents a further milestone in a program that underscores synergies between helicopter production and the construction of carbon fiber aircraft components. As prime contractor and system supplier, Eurocopter is providing a full set of door systems that will equip

Fairoaks, UK based, Gama Engineering has been appointed an authorised Cirrus Aircraft Service Centre. Fairoaks Airport has been the UK support centre for Cirrus SR20 and SR22 operators for over five years. Now, Cirrus’s appointment of Gama Engineering as an authorised Cirrus Service Centre, following the company’s move to the airport last summer, enables Gama

Iberia Maintenance and Avianca have signed an agreement whereby for the next 61 months Iberia will maintain LRU (line replacement unit) parts of the CFM56-5B engines powering the Colombian airline’s Airbus A318s and A319s. LRUs are easily-replaced modular units.

Pratt & Whitney is launching a new service called PurePulse waterjet technology. This closed-loop, forced pulse waterjet system is a patented way to strip chrome, HVOF (high velocity oxygen fuel) and other coatings from parts and machinery, saving customers time and money. It can replace chemical dipping and grinding and has a system that reuses

Bombardier Aerospace has signed an exclusive nine-year heavy maintenance agreement with Indianapolis-based Republic Airlines for its 32 Q400 aircraft. Under this agreement, Bombardier will perform all heavy maintenance tasks for the airline’s fleet of Q400 aircraft at its service centres in Macon, Georgia and Tucson, Arizona through June 2021. In addition, Republic Airlines has agreed

Pratt & Whitney Canada SEA (P&WC SEA), located in Singapore, has signed a five-year Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) agreement with Pacific Royale Airways, a Jakarta, Indonesia-based airline. Pacific Royale Airways has recently begun operations with a 10-aircraft fleet. The PW127B engines which power half of its fleet, five Fokker 50 (High Performance) aircraft, will

Qantas has completed a review of its heavy aircraft maintenance and engineering operations in Australia and will consolidate heavy maintenance work into Brisbane and Avalon. The restructure is necessary as there is currently not enough heavy maintenance work required for three separate facilities and the introduction of new technology and modern aircraft means there will

ST Aerospace released that further to an announcement in February 2012, it has signed agreements with Airbus, EADS and EADS EFW for a collaboration to launch the A330 Passenger-to-Freighter (P2F) conversion programme. Under the agreements, ST Aerospace will subscribe to new shares in EADS EFW, representing 35% of the enlarged share capital of EADS EFW,