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Engine Alliance establishes GP7200 engine low pressure compressor overhaul center in Singapore

Boeing Shanghai Expands Maintenance Business

Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services recently signed a heavy maintenance agreement with Thomas Cook Airlines for supporting the UK carrier’s Boeing 767 fleet. Two Thomas Cook 767s have already gone to Boeing Shanghai’s facilities at Pudong International Airport to undergo extensiv...

Safran opens Mexican CFM56 parts repair centre

Safran has opened a new 10,000m² facility in Querétaro, Mexico dedicated to the repair of CFM56 engine components. The centre will operate as Snecma America Engine Service and becomes Safran’s tenth Mexican facility. The firm said the facility will provide repairs for en...

AERIA Luxury Interiors Redelivers First Green BBJ

ST Aerospace’s VIP completions brand ‘AERIA Luxury Interiors’ (AERIA) redelivered its first green BBJ (Boeing Business Jet) VIP completion for an undisclosed customer at the end of December, 2015. The San Antonio based affiliate company accepted the green BBJ in late 2014 directly from Boeing. The BBJ VIP interior features...

Heli-One Poland Offers Airbus H225 Base Maintenance

Heli-One’s helicopter MRO facility in Rzeszow, Poland, is now approved to provide base maintenance on Airbus Helicopters H225s operating in Europe, the U.S., Canada and the Cayman Islands. The approval adds to the facility's existing AS332 and the H135 capability. Rzeszow is the third Heli-One facility to offer H225 base maintenance, joinin...

ST Aerospace Unveils New VIP Aircraft Interiors Centre in Singapore

* The 2,690sqm facility brings artisanal VIP interiors and refurbishment skills to Singapore New facility will combine age-honed craftsmanship with the latest 3D-printing technology New facility targets rising demand for bespoke cabin interiors from Asian and Middle Eastern customers ST Aerospace today opened its new VIP aircraft interiors centre at the Seletar Aer...

Gama Aviation partners with CAE to expand training

Gama Aviation has signed a partnership agreement with CAE. The agreement will address the new interpretation of EASA Part-FCL requirements regarding base training. Gama Aviation has established its own Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Approved Training Organisation (ATO) to meet CAA requirements that state that “the base training is part of the approved Type Rating course…it must be...

Ethiopian Airlines Group is Inaugurating its new Aviation Academy

In line with its vision 2025 strategic road map, Ethiopian Airlines Group has invested USD 100 million in breakthrough expansion and upgrading its Aviation Academy. The scale and scope of the expansion seals the Academy’s position as the largest and the finest Aviation Academy in Africa with annual intake capacity of 4,000 students. The new Ethiopian Aviation Academy has many cl...

Lufthansa Technik provides support for Eurowings long-haul fleet

Lufthansa Technik AG is to provide comprehensive technical support for the new Eurowings long-haul fleet. The agreement was reached with SunExpress Germany, which operates intercontinental flights from Germany for the Lufthansa Group under the Eurowings brand. In the framework of a Total Technical Support TTS®, Lufthansa Technik will among other aspects handle component...

737NG engine support for Oman Air

AFI KLM E&M and Oman Air have signed a new, long-term contract providing flight hour support for CFM56-7 power plants equipping Oman Air's Boeing 737NG's. Franck Terner, executive vice president Air France engineering and maintenance said: “We have worked regularly with Oman Air for several years. I am very pleased that the airline has now shown us this mark of trus...

Lufthansa Technik cleans up with perch for travelling falcons

Owners of hunting falcons across the Middle East will find transporting their classic birds of prey on VIP jets and commercial aircraft has become a little bit easier thanks to a new product from Lufthansa Technik. “They can make a bit of a mess during flight and of course transporting falcons can also mean having to remove seats beforehand,” said Lufthansa Technik Middle East...

Smart damage prevention: Lufthansa Technik develops Logo Light Protector

Lufthansa Technik AG has developed another smart solution to avoid unscheduled maintenance actions. It’s called the Logo Light Protector. The light protector avoids damage that can occur while removing a logo light located in the horizontal stabilizer of the Boeing 777. Until now, there has been an inherent risk of damage to the GFRP surface layer of the st...

MRO Middle East: Revima adds 'On Wing' to its landing gear offer

French-based landing gear MRO specialist Revima has made the journey to Dubai to launch its dedicated “On Wing Services” team to the Middle East. Speaking at the MRO Middle East show which opened in Dubai this morning, Revima’s vie president for landing gear centres of excellence, Cyrille Pillet said: “As a world class service provider, it is paramount that we continuously...

Jet Aviation St. Louis Upgrades Aircraft Paint Shop

Jet Aviation St. Louis recently upgraded the controls for climate, air quality and final finish at its paint shop. It also acquired devices that analyze paint color tint, inspect pearl and metallic paints, measure the smoothness of the paint finish and assess the level of paint gloss. “Our new computerized and automated climate-control system, painter decontamination chambers, and pa...

Sabena alliance takes the Congo MROs to a new level

Belgian MRO specialist Sabena Aerospace has linked up with Equatorial Congo Air (ECAir) to create a central African MRO centre. As Alan Dron discovered, this will help instil an aviation culture in a new generation of local technicians. The signing, in July 2014, of the agreement to set up a new MRO facility at the Republic of the Congo’s Maya Maya International Airport in Brazzaville w...

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Daher Aircraft expands its authorized service center Network in Brazil, reinforcing support for the country's growing TBM fleet

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...