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MTU Maintenance completes 7,000th shop visit for a V2500-A5 engine

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Dana Ermolenko
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MTU Maintenance network has officially completed 7,000 shop visits for its V2500-A5 engine program, marking the occasion with a celebratory event at MTU Maintenance Canada. As the largest MRO provider for this engine type, MTU performed 38 percent of all V2500 shop visits worldwide for both independent customers and on behalf of the OEM, International Aero Engines AG in 2024.

Kelly Horan, president of IAE commented: "MTU is an important part of the V2500 engine program, providing both production and aftermarket services.cAs the V2500 continues to see strong demand – with 300 million flight hours and counting – MTU's maintenance, repair and overhaul expertise will remain vital to meeting the needs of our customers around the world."

MTU Maintenance Canada, located just south of Vancouver in Delta, British Columbia, is the MTU group’s third and most recent facility to offer MRO services for one of the most popular narrowbody aircraft engines in the market. MTU Maintenance Hannover first introduced the V2500 at its shop in 1989, while MTU Maintenance Zhuhai, the group’s narrowbody engine specialist in Asia, inaugurated its operations with that engine model in 2003. In 2017, MTU Maintenance Canada joined them to cover the American market. Having three sites enables MTU to offer unique and very flexible solutions to V2500 owners and operators globally.

“MTU Maintenance’s legacy is deeply entwined with that of the V2500 and the collective know-how which MTU’s locations have accumulated in the last 35 years. This is the key reason why we are one of the market’s top engine experts of choice for it,” says Uwe Zachau, Managing Director and CEO of MTU Maintenance Canada, commending the network’s role in the history of the engine. Besides the V2500-A5 commercial subtype, the site also conducts MRO workscopes on behalf of the OEM on the engine’s E5 military variant powering Embraer’s C-390 Millennium transport aircraft.

That legacy began when MTU Aero Engines, MTU Maintenance’s parent company, became one of the founding members of IAE alongside Pratt & Whitney and the Japanese Aero Engines Corporation in 1983, specifically for the development and manufacturing of the V2500 engine. MTU has a 16% program share and also carries out MRO for this engine as an OEM network partner and in an independent role.





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