MRO & Production

South African Airways has signed a new TotalCare service order, worth US$180m, for Trent 700 engines that power five Airbus A330 aircraft that are entering service. The aircraft are in addition to six A330s the airline already operates – all powered by the Trent 700 with TotalCare. The engines are assembled at Rolls-Royce’s facility in […]

Air India and Lufthansa Technik have entered into an agreement for the maintenance and repair of the carrier’s Boeing 777-200/300 landing gears. The four-year contract covers a total of 15 shipsets. The maintenance and overhaul work will be performed by Lufthansa Technik Landing Gear Services UK (LTLGS) located in Hayes, London, in the UK. The

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