MRO & Production

Boeing has chosen South Carolina as the location for fabrication and assembly of airplane interior parts to supply the 787 Dreamliner final assembly and delivery site currently under construction in North Charleston, S.C. The company is reviewing potential sites for the new airplane interiors facility and anticipates making a final decision by midsummer. The new […]

Dassault’s Falcon 900LX has entered the last phases of the flight test and certification program while completions on the first two customer aircraft have begun. Final certification is anticipated during the third quarter of 2010 with deliveries starting thereafter. The flight test program, which began in October of 2009, has accumulated 180 flight hours over

Dassault Falcon signed an agreement with Jet Aviation Hong Kong to establish a Dassault Falcon Authorized Line Service Station at Hong Kong’s Chep Lap Kok Airport (VHHH) by the end of 2010. The facility will be authorized to support scheduled and unscheduled maintenance up through A and A+ level checks for the Falcon 2000EX EASy,

Dubai based Emirates and Direct Maintnance signed a maintenance agreement for AMS covering all 4 passenger B777 variants in the EK fleet. In addition, the agreement also includes the new B777-200LRF models, operated by Emirates SkyCargo.

Lufthansa Technik AERO Alzey (LTAA), a subsidiary of Lufthansa Technik AG, celebrates the final test run after servicing the 3000th turboprop engine of the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 series. The engine, a PW127M, destined for an ATR72-500 of the Spanish airline Binter Canarias, was honoured with a commemorative event in the Alzey facility. The

Smyrna Air Center has signed an agreement with GE Aviation to become an Authorized Service Center for the M601 and H80 turboprop engines. As part of the agreement, Smyrna Air Center will offer comprehensive line maintenance, removals and re-installations of engines and LRUs and engine spares for the M601 and H80 engine families. GE Aviation

On April 27, Ameco Beijing completed a C-check on one of two Boeing 767 aircraft from AeroSvit Airlines. It is the first time for Ameco Beijing to perform C-check service for this carrier. The two companies inked a contract covering two Boeing 767s C-check services in February. The second B767 aircraft is scheduled for service

Comlux Aviation Services of Indianapolis, Indiana has been appointed as an authorized service facility (ASF) for Bombardier business aircraft. Bombardier now has 41 facilities, consisting of ASFs and line maintenance facilities (LMF), in 21 countries catering to its business aircraft customers, with additional backing provided by seven Bombardier-owned Service Centers, including its recently opened European

FL Technics (Lithuania), an aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider in Eastern Europe, extended its capabilities by adding Boeing 737 Next-Generation. The first two 737 NG customer aircraft have already arrived at FL Technics facility and work has commenced on their maintenance. FL Technics has extended it

BAE Systems has opened its new engineering hub in Melbourne that will integrate the company