MRO & Production

Associated Air Center (AAC) has completed the company’s first installation of Aviation Partners Boeing Split Scimitar Winglets for a U.S.-based Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) customer. The installation was completed after a scheduled yearly inspection at AAC’s Dallas Love Field facility. The project included a wing trailing edge wedge installation and an outboard wing ballast installation. […]

STS Line Maintenance, a division of STS Aviation Group, will open aircraft maintenance stations in Boston, Burbank, Denver, Newark, New York (JFK), Orlando, Minneapolis, Omaha, Phoenix and Ft. Myers, following HAECO Americas Line Services’ announcement earlier this year that it would close its stations at those airports by December 31st. STS Line Maintenance plans to

Based on a cooperation agreement from May 2016, Lufthansa Technik and DC Aviation Group have recently performed a first A-check for a narrowbody aircraft at Al Maktoum International Airport (Dubai World Central Airport) in Dubai. The services were provided for an Airbus A319 of an undisclosed customer from the region in the hangars and VIP

Jet Aviation’s maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facilities in Dubai are to join the ACJ Service Centre network, adding to the choice of Airbus-approved facilities around the world for ACJ customers and operators. Its Basle facilities became part of the ACJ Service Centre Network earlier this year. The expanded network comprises companies that are owned

Comlux has launched a new Forward Auxiliary Center Tank System for the Airbus A321. The new system will allow VIP operators to realize a range increase of up to 500nm (25 pax) while commercial operators can expect up to 300nm (160 pax). In collaboration with Airbus specialists, Comlux Engineers developed this new design to complement

Lufthansa Technik and GE selected the Legnica Special Economic Zone in Środa Śląska, Poland as the site for its maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) joint venture for GEnx-2B and GE9X engines. The joint venture, called XEOS, will invest about US$267m in the new facility. Ground breaking on the 350,000 ft² facility will begin in the

LOT Polish Airlines has chosen a new chrome-free aerospace primer coatings system by PPG for corrosion resistance, because it is eco-friendly and a preferred PPG topcoat for superior gloss and shine, to repaint three Embraer E175 jets and a 737-400 airplane. LOT Aircraft Maintenance Services (LOTAMS) repainted the 737-400 airplane and the first E175 jet

HAECO Xiamen became one of China’s first Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) organisations with an Environmental Management System (EMS) implemented to ISO 14001:2004 standards, as certified by SGS, a leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company headquartered in Switzerland. The ISO 14001:2004 is an internationally recognised standard that specifies EMS requirements, against which organisations can

FLYHT Aerospace Solutions has been granted CAAC Part-145 approval by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). The approval took almost two years to achieve and now allows FLYHT to repair Automated Flight Information Reporting System (AFIRS) units and return them to customers in China with an AAC-038 release certificate. The AAC-038 is a maintenance

Spirit AeroSystems has reported the completion of an expansion project on the Spirit Wichita campus to support production of the 737 thrust reverser. The expansion supports production rate increases already planned for the Boeing 737 program. The company also celebrated delivering the first 737 MAX thrust reverser with the new composite inner wall to the