MRO & Production

Finnair and Finncomm Airlines have formed a joint venture, Finnish Aircraft Maintenance Oy (FAM), which will specialise in maintenance services for regional aircraft. Finnair and Finncomm Airlines will each own 50% of the company. The company has earlier operated as part of the Finncomm Group. The Civil Aviation Authority granted FAM an aircraft maintenance licence […]

Aviall Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, has entered into an agreement with Pratt & Whitney Commercial Engine Group for exclusive global distribution rights for new parts for non-military JT9D 7/7Q/7R series turbofan engines. Per terms of the agreement, the contract extends for the life of the engine program and Aviall will

Embraer signed a five-year Embraer Collaborative Inventory Parts (ECIP) service contract with Kunpeng Airlines Co., Ltd., the newest E-Jets operator in China. Kun Peng currently has more than 1,900 part numbers from seven maintenance bases covered by ECIP. The ECIP program monitors customer parts usage, guarantees automatic stock replenishment, shortens delivery times for contracted parts,

Virgin Blue has entered a six-year OnPointSM solution agreement that covers the maintenance and overhaul of all CFM56-7B engines operated by Virgin Blue and its international carrier Pacific Blue. The agreement is valued at up to $300 million. With more than 31 percent of the Australian domestic market and a modern fleet of 68 Next

Gulfstream Aerospace recently became the first Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to receive approval from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for all of its aircraft equipped with the Gulfstream Enhanced Vision System (EVS) to obtain operational credit for continuing approaches to 100 feet. EU-OPS rule 1.430(h), the European equivalent of Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) 91.175,

With an official ribbon cutting ceremony ExelTech inaugurated their brand new aircraft maintenance facility at Montreal

StandardAero, a Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) company has received Supplemental Type Certification (STC-SA02603CH-D) to remove Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC) PT6A-41 series engines on the Beechcraft King Air 200 and replace them with new or serviceable PT6A-42 engines. StandardAero is the only PT6A designated overhaul facility that can offer customers both maintenance, repair and overhaul

Elbit Systems announced that its subsidiary, Cyclone Aviation Products has been awarded a contract by The Boeing Company valued at approx. $31 million to supply structural components for its F-15 fighter jets. The contract calls for the supply of external fuel tanks, pylons, horizontal stabilizers and gun access doors. Deliveries are scheduled between 2009 and

Associated Air Center (AAC) has delivered its twelfth Airbus Corporate Jet completion project since 2003. Arriving as a green aircraft in early November, the project was completed in an eight month turnaround time. The aircraft departed AAC in late July and will join two previously completed siblings in Africa.

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