MRO & Production

Piper Aircraft announced details and unveiled its all-new PiperSport on January 21st, underscoring its foray into the Light Sport Aviation segment with a world-class aircraft that speaks to Piper’s heritage in bringing seminal, entry-level airplanes to market while offering features and performance normally found in more expensive, high-end aircraft. The PiperSport, manufactured under a licensing […]

Airbus released that the second A330-200F has made its first flight on January 20th. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines, the aircraft undertook a routine three-hour production first test flight. There are now two A330-200F aircraft in the flight test programme. This latest aircraft to fly,

AAR has signed a two-year agreement with Hawaiian Airlines to provide maintenance, repair and overhaul services for the airline’s Boeing 717 aircraft. AAR will perform 10-year checks on 12 of Hawaiian’s Boeing 717s and paint certain aircraft before they are returned to service. The aircraft will be flown from Hawaiian’s base in Honolulu to AAR

MAINtag SAS, a market leader in RFID system solutions and Tego, a leading provider of high-memory RFID tagging solutions, reported that the companies’ jointly-developed FLYtag products will be used in a pioneering effort to tag thousands of aircraft parts across the Airbus A350 XWB fleet. MAINtag will be the prime contractor for the jointly secured

SIA Engineering Company (SIAEC) has signed a definitive agreement to participate in Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower PW1000G engine Risk-Revenue Sharing Program (RRSP). SIAEC will participate in the PW1000G engine RRSP with a 3% stake in the Bombardier CSeries engine RRSP and a 1% stake in the Mitsubishi Regional Jet engine RRSP. As part of the

Spanish carrier Air Nostrum and ATR announced the signature of a Global Maintenance Agreement (GMA), valued at some $ 25 million, for the supply of spare parts and maintenance services for the brand new fleet of 10 ATR 72-600 that the airline will introduce in 2011. Under this 10-year contract ATR will handle the complete

BizJet International, a Lufthansa Technik US subsidiary, has delivered its first Airbus A318 Elite after the completion of the aircraft had been finalized on schedule at the end of 2009. The A318 Elite, which is provided with a FAA- and EASA-supplemental Type Certificate, has been equipped with a VIP Cabin-Interior during its seven-month completion. Work

AAR has signed a five-year agreement with Allegiant Air to provide maintenance and modification services for Allegiant’s fleet of 46 MD-80 aircraft. Scheduled maintenance work will be performed at AAR’s MRO facilities in Miami and Oklahoma City. Additionally, AAR’s Indianapolis facility will be available to support Allegiant’s unscheduled maintenance requirements and Allegiant may request that

Harbin Hafei Airbus Composite Manufacturing Centre, a joint venture between Airbus and Chinese partners, signed a contract for the work package of A350 XWB elevators with the Spain-based Aernnova Aerospace SAU (ANN) which is a major supplier of aerostructures to Airbus. Under the contract, the Manufacturing Centre will become the sole supplier of A350 XWB

EgyptAir has selected Rockwell Collins’ suite of avionics for eight Boeing 737 NG aircraft. Deliveries are scheduled from September 2010 through August 2012. The agreement includes dual Rockwell Collins Multiscan Hazard Detection System configuration and Head-up Guidance System (HGS), as well as a comprehensive communications, navigation and surveillance suite including the Rockwell Collins Traffic Collision