MRO & Production

Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has signed a line maintenance technical handling agreement with Rossiya Airlines. The agreement will see MAEL to provide support to the Russian operator’s winter flights to Goa, India, on which they will operate Boeing 767-300 aircraft.

MRO and commercial aircraft paint facility Jet Midwest Technik has recently entered into an agreement with SkyWest Airlines to perform  “Premium” aircraft paint services for the airline’s CRJ-200 fleet currently operated on behalf of United Express. Jet Midwest Technik is currently painting two continuous lines of aircraft at their 1,200,000 sq. ft MRO facility at

Boeing began building the first Next-Generation 737 at the program’s new production rate of 35 airplanes a month. The rate is increasing from 31.5 airplanes a month to meet worldwide market demand for the best-selling single-aisle airplane. Employees loaded chords and webs manufactured by the Boeing Fabrication division into the company’s newest automated spar assembly tool,

The CIRCOR Aerospace Products Group has been selected by Messier-Bugatti-Dowty (Safran Group) to manufacture a complete suite of 20 actuators for multiple business and regional aircraft platforms. CIRCOR Aerospace will perform the manufacturing, final assembly and testing of these actuators at its Corona, California facilities.  CIRCOR Aerospace was previously awarded several design and development and legacy

Messier-Bugatti-Dowty was chosen once again by Airbus to supply the nose and main landing gear for the A320 family, including the A320neo family. The European aircraft manufacturer currently accounts for 60% of Messier-Bugatti-Dowty’s landing gear activity as it supplies landing gear to the entire Airbus single aisle program as well as A330, A340 and A380 nose landing gears

Brussels Airlines and Lufthansa Technik Malta have signed a base maintenance contract for the Airbus A330 fleet of the carrier. Lufthansa Technik Malta will provide C-Checks for the five A330s of Brussels Airlines starting from now on. Additionally Lufthansa Technik Malta has been selected to do a full cabin retrofit of the aircraft starting in

ST Aerospace is awarded a contract to support Japanese low fare airline Solaseed Air’s CFM56-7B and CFM56-7BE engines, powering its entire fleet of 13 Next- Generation Boeing 737 aircraft over five years. The services provided to Solaseed Air will involve off-wing engine maintenance support, technical support and short term leasing of the CFM56-7B engines.

British Prime Minister David Cameron officially opened Airbus’ new £400 million wing factory in Wales on October 13th, a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility which will assemble the wings for Airbus’ advanced new A350 XWB long-range aircraft family.  The Prime Minister joined hundreds of guests and Airbus employees to unveil the giant, environmentally friendly Airbus North Factory

GE Aviation has been awarded two contracts from Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation to provide the Integrated Vehicle Health Management technology and service for the G650 business jet aircraft. “This is one of the first comprehensive health management systems for a civil airplane and a first for business jets,” said Lorraine Bolsinger, president and CEO of GE