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Jet Aviation Basel launches Honeywell Aerospace APU Overhaul Facility

Jet Aviation Basel has received approval from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to operate its new Honeywell Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) Overhaul Facility for the GTCP36 Series. Honeywell presented their APU Overhaul Facility Certificate to Jet Aviation Basel at the EBACE Conventio...

ExecuJet enhances maintenance support in the Middle East and India

ExecuJet Middle East is extending maintenance capabilities at its Line Station, located at Al Maktoum International (DWC), Dubai South and at its recently established India MRO facility, located at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. ExecuJet’s Line Station at DWC is now manne...


Monarch Aircraft Engineering: Boeing 787 Dreamliner Maintenance

Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL), the engineering division of Monarch, a leading UK independent airline group, has recently completed back to back airframe maintenance on eight Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft at its aircraft maintenance facility at Birmingham Airport. During March, April and May this year, the nose to tail inputs were successfully completed for one of the company&...

Bell Helicopter Continues To Drive Growth in Heavy Maintenance Throughout Asia-Pacific

Bell Helicopter announced that its facility in Singapore successfully completed 5,000 hour inspections and customization for two Bell 412EPs  for a private customer located in Australia.  "Our Singapore facility continues to drive growth in heavy maintenance, repair and overhaul for customers throughout the region," said Mike Greene, general manager for Bell Helicopter&...

Textron Aviation honors Lufthansa Flight Training with European High Utilization Award

Textron Aviation Inc.announced Germany’s Lufthansa Flight Training as the winner of its 2016 High Utilization Award for Europe, reinforcing the longstanding relationship between the two companies. “We are delighted once again to recognize the high utilization achievements of Lufthansa Flight Training, which underlines how well suited Citations are to pilot training,” said Brad T...

TAG Aviation To Complete First Scheduled C-Check on a Dassault Falcon 7X Aircraft

TAG Aviation will undertake its first C-check on a Dassault Falcon 7X aircraft this Spring. The C-check will be completed in conjunction with a major cabin and cockpit refurbishment and will also include a new wood-varnishing repaint process which will be applied to the cabin’s woodwork interior. As the largest maintenance event for the Dassault Falcon 7X , all the expertise needed for C-ch...

Lufthansa Technik and DC Aviation Group sign cooperation agreement

Joint services in Dubai  Lufthansa Technik has concluded a cooperation agreement with DC Aviation Group, a leading operator of business jets in Europe. As part of the agreement signed on May 25, 2016, the two companies plan to offer their VIP customers a first-class package of services at Al Maktoum International Airport (Dubai World Central Airport). An experienced, highly qualified team...

Jet Aviation Basel completions centre launches 3D App JetVision at EBACE 2016

Jet Aviation Basel has launched its 3D application, JetVision, at the 2016 European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva. JetVision provides clients with a secure way to interact with the facility and visually manage their completions projects. With the launch of JetVision, Jet Aviation puts completions in the client’s control. The app provides virtual access to a...

AMAC Aerospace acquires JCB Aero SAS in France

AMAC Aerospace Switzerland Ltd. is expanding its completion, maintenance, engineering and production services with the acquisition of JCB Aero SAS, a French leader in the luxury design and installation of civil and VIP aircraft interiors. With more than 25 years of expertise, JCB Aero SAS is a key player within the aircraft cabin interior industry. Its core competences are engineering project a...

Honeywell marks 40 years of aircraft maintenance services that reduce downtime and costs

Honeywell is celebrating 40 years of providing maintenance service plans for airplane operators and owners of business jets. As one of the world's leading manufacturers of engines and auxiliary power units, Honeywell has designed a program implemented by industry specialists based in more than 180 service centers across 30 countries worldwide. In 1976, the company's first Maintenance Se...

British Airways' Cardiff Maintenance Team Welcomes the Dreamliner

British Airways’ team of expert engineers at Cardiff has welcomed one of the airline’s 16 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft for the first time for planned maintenance. The aircraft recently arrived at British Airways Maintenance Cardiff (BAMC), the airline’s long-haul aircraft heavy maintenance facility in South Wales, for a planned 12 day ‘B’ check, conducted every t...

Finland's Polar Aviation named Falcon authorized service centre

Dassault Aviation has recently approved Helsinki-based Polar Aviation as an authorized service center (ASC) for Falcon 900, 2000 and 7X aircraft. The recent approval allows the Finnish company to provide line maintenance service level on Falcon 2000/2000EX/2000EX EASy, 900EX/900EX EASy and 7X models. They will also dispatch GoTeams which can quickly respond to aircraft on ground (AOG) situation...

Adria Tehnika and easyJet Sign Cooperation Agreement

Adria Tehnika has signed a cooperation agreement with British airline easyJet. The agreement has been concluded for two years and covers works in the passenger cabin – reconfiguration of the cabin from 180 to 186 seats, the installation of a new galley and new lavatories. The aircraft will be worked on one after another during the winter timetable in the 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 seasons. Ther...

First pilots training center for newest Bell 505 Jet Ranger X in Russia

The official representative of Bell Helicopter in Russia and Ukraine Jet Transfer and Heliports of Russia within the framework of IX «HeliRussia 2016" International exhibition of the helicopter industry, have signed a memorandum on the organization of aviation training center on the territory Heliports of Russia to train pilots for the newest helicopter Bell 505 Jet Ranger X....

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ExecuJet MRO Services Australasia expands Falcon 7X heavy maintenance capability in Sydney

ExecuJet MRO Services Australasia is expanding its Falcon maintenance capability in Sydney, with new investments in specialist tooling, training and technical resources to support upcoming Falcon 7X h...

VIP Completions-YODEZEEN Gulfstream G550 wins prestigious design award

VIP Completions together with partner YODEZEEN announced that their Gulfstream G550 refurbishment project won the ‘Aviation Interior Design/VIP Completion’ title at the International...

Liebherr and Loong Air sign service agreement for heat transfer equipment

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