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World Aero repairs 16,000th component at its EASA/FAA Part-145 wheel & brake repair facility

Fortress Investment Group becomes new customer of Volga-Dnepr Gulf

Volga-Dnepr Gulf (UAE) FZC has signed a contract with WWTAI AirOpCO 1 Bermuda LTD to provide maintenance services on the customer’s Boeing 747-400 aircraft. The scope of work to be performed in Volga-Dnepr Gulf’s Sharjah hangar will include required checks a...

TAG Global Training Launches Upset Prevention and Recovery e-Learning Training Course

TAG Global Training (TGT) announced today that it has launched an ‘Upset Prevention and Recovery Training’ (UPRT) theory course to add to their established suite of e-Learning courses. Professional training which is dedicated to helping pilots gain the required skills to recover appropr...

GlobalAir.com Aviation Scholarship Now Open for Applications

GlobalAir.com is pleased to announce the opening for application submissions for the GlobalAir.com Calvin L. Carrithers Aviation Scholarship. The scholarship is offered to all students who are U.S. Citizens and currently enrolled in an accredited university or college aviation program for the 2016-2017 school year. Students from around the United States have benefited from the Calvin L. C...

Jet Aviation gains ACJ authorised service centre status for Basel MRO facility

Jet Aviation is pleased to announce that Airbus has appointed its Maintenance, Refurbishment and Overhaul (MRO) facility in Basel an Authorized Service Center (ASC) for Airbus Corporate Jets. The agreement was signed at the 2016 EBACE Convention in Geneva. To enhance the choice and geographical reach of support services for ACJ customers and operators in Europe, Airbus Corporate Jets (ACJ...

UAE Space Agency and Lockheed Martin Partner to Train the Next Generation of UAE National Space Talent

Global technology leader Lockheed Martin announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Space Agency to launch a comprehensive dual-track space training program for students and early career professionals in space fundamentals. In line with the UAE’s national vision, the program was developed as part of Lockheed Martin’s growing collaboration with the...

Volga-Dnepr Gulf signs Boeing 747 base maintenance-checks with Air Atlanta Icelandic

Volga-Dnepr Gulf (VD Gulf) based in Sharjah, UAE, has recently signed agreement for nose-to-tail inputs of Air Atlanta’s Boeing 747-400s for Base Maintenance checks including AD/SB & out of phase works. The first aircraft is due to arrive at VD Gulf’s Sharjah Hangar facility on 26th June 2016, for a twenty six day layover while subsequent aircraft will follow this first inp...

Volga-Dnepr Technics Moscow adds Sukhoi Super Jet 100 to its MRO capability

Volga-Dnepr Technics Moscow (VDTM), part of Volga-Dnepr Technics subgroup – a maintenance, repair and overhaul division of Volga-Dnepr Group, has successfully passed a certification process to become an approved maintenance organization for Sukhoi Super Jet 100 aircraft under Russian Federal Aviation Regulations 285. VDTM is now capable to provide line maintenance, structural repair...

SAMCO Receives Authorized Maintenance Organization Approval for Bombardier C Series Aircraft

Bombardier Commercial Aircraft announced that its Authorized Service Facility (ASF), SAMCO Aircraft Maintenance B.V. has received its C Series aircraft Part 145 base maintenance approval from the Civil Aviation Authority, The Netherlands. This approval recognizes SAMCO as the first Part 145 Aircraft Maintenance Organization (AMO) in the world, outside of Bombardier’s own manufacturing...

Vector Aerospace completes first successful PT6A-140 engine test at South African facility

Vector Aerospace a global independent provider of aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services, is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed its first full engine test on the Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) PT6A-140 turboprop at its facility in South Africa. The PT6A-140 powers the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX, and is also offered as an upgrade for earlier models of...

CAE awarded contracts by UAE Armed Forces valued at approximately C$145 million

CAE announced it has been awarded contracts by the General Headquarters (GHQ) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Armed Forces valued at approximately C$145 million. The contracts are for CAE to design and develop a comprehensive Naval Training Centre (NTC) for the UAE Navy and to provide the UAE Joint Aviation Command (JAC) with a suite of helicopter simulators and training devices for the NorthSta...

Lufthansa Technik cooperates with Starburst Accelerator

Lufthansa Technik AG has chosen Starburst to develop and strengthen ties with innovative start-ups in the aerospace sector. Having access to a start-up pool with aerospace focus of at least 150 start-ups in Europe as well as 100 start-ups in the US, Starburst covers a wide range of potential future collaborations with start-ups. In addition to its established partnerships wi...

STS Expands its Aircraft Engineering Services With Strategic New Hire

STS Engineering Solutions (STSES), a division of STS Aviation Group and the leading provider of aircraft engineering services throughout much of the United States and Latin America, hires Brian Fasano, PE, DER, as its Senior Director of Maintenance Programs and Reliability. This is a new position for STS, one that allows the company to significantly expand its already impr...

Czech Airlines Technics to Provide Aircraft Maintenance for China Eastern Airlines

Czech Airlines Technics (CSAT), a daughter company of the Czech Aeroholding Group, which provides aircraft maintenance services, entered into an Agreement with another Chinese air carrier, China Eastern Airlines. CSAT will thus provide line maintenance for aircraft servicing the new Prague – Shanghai route. Since September 2015, CSAT has been providing line maintenance fo...

UK CAA to open EASA Part 66 exam centre in Istanbul

On behalf of the UK Civil Aviation Authority (UK CAA), CAA International (CAAi) is set to open a brand new EASA Part-66 Aircraft Maintenance Licence (AML) electronic examination centre in Istanbul, Turkey. The first exams will be delivered on Thursday 22nd September 2016 at British Side Language School, in Besiktas, Istanbul. This new exam service will give aircraft maintenance engineers in...

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Daher Aircraft has strengthened its customer support coverage for Brazilian owners and operators of the fast, efficient TBM airplane family with the addition of two authorized service centers to the c...

Flying more sustainably with “shark skin”: Lufthansa Group tests next-generation AeroSHARK

An Airbus A319 of Lufthansa City Airlines is the world’s first test aircraft for a new generation of fuel-efficient AeroSHARK technology. Lufthansa Technik will test approximately 70 transp...