MRO & Production

Cathay Pacific Airways has awarded Pratt & Whitney a 10-year Fleet Management Program (FMP) for the airline

Kuwaiti private carrier Jazeera Airways has selected Lufthansa Technik AG to support its growing fleet of Airbus A320 airplanes. Over the next ten years the German maintenance, repair & overhaul (MRO) provider will offer its Total Technical Support TTS

The facility was designed in co-operation with GE with a capability unique to the Middle East region. The facility will house a 13-meter cross-section turbofan engine test cell and an auxiliary power unit test cell and will be capable of testing aircraft engines with up to 150,000 pounds of thrust. The test facility will test

TIMCO Aviation Services, Inc. announced that it has selected Pittsburgh, PA, as the site for its new CFM56 engine center that will eventually employ approximately 200 people. The 75,000 square-foot center, scheduled to commence operations in early 2006, will offer off-wing maintenance, repair and overhaul services on CFM56-3 series engines, as wellas on-wing support services

IAE International Aero Engines launched ExecSelectSM, a support program for Airbus corporate applications of the V2500 engine. ExecSelectSM is a combined engine upgrade and aftermarket support program which provides the customer with reduced and predictable operating costs, improved fuel burn and offers time-on-wing improvements. Under this program IAE will condition monitor engines and provide technical

SR Technics has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Okay Airways to form a maintenance Joint Venture (JV) in China. Okay Airways, which was established in June 2004, is the first privately owned airline in China. This JV will see SR Technics and Okay Airways partner together to establish a Company providing technical solutions

Rolls-Royce continues its growth for its CorporateCare

Singapore Technologies Aerospace Ltd (ST Aerospace) announced that its US facility, ST Mobile Aerospace Engineering (MAE), has been awarded a contract by the New Zealand Ministry of Defence. The contract, worth US$38m (approximately S$65m), involves a cargo conversion and avionics upgrade programme for two of the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s (RNZAF) Boeing 757-200 aircraft.

China Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC 1) and Airbus confirmed the extension of their cooperation in activities to produce A320 Family wing boxes in China. The protocol refers to the initial contract, with a projected total value of over US$ 500 million, signed in Beijing earlier this year between Airbus and AVIC 1, which committed the

Boeing Business Jets signed a service contract with Jet Aviation Singapore, making the company the first authorized service center for BBJs in the Asia Pacific region. Jet Aviation will provide maintenance, repair and overhaul services as well as warranty work on behalf of BBJ customers.