The International Bureau of Aviation (IBA) has completed additional sales of inventory material from the remaining assets of the old Alitalia operations. This was the most substantial package of A320 rotable parts that IBA have offered for sale so far. The Lots were sold to AvTrade, following competitive bidding for a range of assets. Ben Jacques, […]
GE Aviation and Cathay Pacific Airways have reached a 15-year OnPoint solution agreement for the maintenance, repair and overhaul of the airline’s GE90-115B engines that power its additional 18 Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.
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REVIMA APU and Italian all-cargo flag carrier Cargoitalia signed an Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) support agreement to provide repair services to Cargoitalia’s aircraft fleet. The agreement covers repair services for TSCP700-4E APUs installed on MD-11 freighter airplanes operated by Cargoitalia. It also includes provisions for the lease of spare APUs and the repair of fieldremoved
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The Spanish airline, Spanair S.A., and Hamburg-based Lufthansa Technik AG are stepping up a successful partnership that dates back over 10 years. Lufthansa Technik will now provide technical support for the landing gears, thrust reversers and auxiliary power units (APU’s) for the airline’s 24-aircraft fleet of modern Airbuses to the end of 2019. The relevant
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Virgin America has expanded its existing 12-year OnPoint solution agreement to include its newly ordered 60 CFM56-5B engines that will power its A320 aircraft. The expanded service agreement is valued at more than $320 million dollars over the life of the contract. In addition Virgin America signed Rate per Flight Hour (RPFH) agreement with CFM International
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PPG Industries’ aerospace transparencies group is launching the brand name of its craze-resistant, high-performance aerospace transparency material at the Paris Air Show, where visitors can see a passenger-cabin window made with the unique plastic at the PPG Aerospace booth. OPTICOR advanced transparency material by PPG Aerospace is the first new transparent plastic developed in more than 50
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Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) confirmed that United Continental Holdings Inc., the parent company of United Airlines and Continental Airlines, has ordered Blended Winglets for its 767-300ERs. Initial installations of the systems, on 14 aircraft, are planned to commence in early 2012. With this order, United Continental Holdings becomes APB’s largest single customer having ordered more than
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Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. reported the completion of the first UH-60M BLACK HAWK helicopter cockpit produced in the Czech Republic by AERO Vodochody, a longtime Sikorsky supplier that has manufactured more than 300 S-76 commercial helicopter airframes since 2000. Sikorsky awarded AERO Vodochody a contract in January 2010 to begin producing the cockpits as a second
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AG Aero, part of the AGA Group of Companies, has signed an agreement with GE Aviation to become an Authorized Service Center for GE’s M601 and H80 turboprop engines in Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines regions. As part of the agreement, AG Aero will offer comprehensive line maintenance, removals and re-installations of engines and
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Jade Cargo International signed a heavy maintenance contract with Ameco Beijing for 6 Boeing 747-400ERF, for the term of 9 years, starting from 2011. The contract was signed on May 19th, 2011 in Shenzhen, China. Jade Cargo International started flight operations in August 2006 and operates currently a fleet of six B747-400ERFs (Extended Range Freighter).
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