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Jet Aviation expanding G650, BBJ and ACJ maintenance capabilities across Asia

Jet Aviation’s MRO facilities in Asia have recently gained important approvals from the civil aviation authorities in Singapore (CAAS), Malaysia (DCA) and Taiwan (CAA) to support Gulfstream G650, Boeing B737 and Airbus ACJ A319/20/21 aircraft registered in Singapore, as well as Malaysia-r...

AMAC Aerospace ramps up wide-body maintenance at Basel

AMAC's four hangars are currently operating to full capacity with maintenance work packages on three Airbus A340s and one Boeing B777 and more wide-bodies as a B747-8i is expected to enter the hangar doors later this year. In addition, a new maintenance contract which includes a major C-Check...


HAECO PJS Invests In 3D Printing Capability

HAECO Group’s cabin completion specialist, HAECO Private Jet Solutions (“HAECO PJS”) has invested in three dimensional (“3D”) printing capability, enabling the company to provide customers with miniature 3D models of their unique cabin industrial designs to scale. HAECO PJS’ introduction of the new 3D printing capability builds on the exis...

Lufthansa Technik receives CAAC approval to perform heavy maintenance on Airbus ACJ319

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has approved Lufthansa Technik as maintenance station for Airbus A319 aircraft. This new approval enables the company to perform line and heavy maintenance services as well as cabin refurbishments on Chinese B-registered Airbus A319 aircraft. The approval has been obtained in line with the first A319ACJ base maintenance...

SR Technics Releases 200th Aircraft for easyJet out of Malta

SR Technics, a world leading MRO service provider, recently completed the 200th aircraft for easyJet at its Malta facility. The landmark aircraft from easyJet departed from Malta International Airport for Geneva, Switzerland. “As our launch customer in Malta, the partnership with easyJet has been essential to our company’s success and development at our Mediterranean hub,&...

Bombardier BA & Tianjin Airport Economic Area Inaugurate Business Jet Service Centre in Tianjin

First maintenance inspection on customer aircraft is underway at the newly opened facility Facility represents a firm commitment to aviation in China Bombardier Business Aircraft’s products answer need for efficiency-enhancing corporate jets in the Chinese economy Bombardier Business Aircraft in collaboration with its partner the Tianjin Airport Economic Area (TAEA) are pleased t...

RUAG Aviation and Piaggio Aerospace complete first retrofit Magnaghi Aeronautica landing gear upgrade

RUAG Aviation’s specialists in Lugano-Agno required just six weeks to complete the retrofitting and integration of the new Magnaghi system. The installation marks the culmination of an intensive process of collaboration between Piaggio Aerospace and RUAG Aviation. The development of the Magnaghi landing gear upgrade for the P.180 Avanti II was a cooperative process from the outset. Piaggi...

Jet Aviation’s maintenance center in Vienna gains FAA Repair Station approval

Jet Aviation’s maintenance facility in Vienna has recently received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to provide line and base maintenance to N-registered aircraft. Close to 500 N-registered aircraft are currently based or operating in EMEA and Asia. With this approval, Jet Aviation’s maintenance facility in Vienna is authorized to provide line and ba...

DC Aviation obtains extension of CAMO Certification

DC Aviation, one of Germany’s largest business jet operator, has obtained CAMO (Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisation) Certification for the Gulfstream G650 from the Federal Aviation Office (Luftfahrtbundesamt). “This puts us in a position where we can now offer CAMO services not only for the G450 and the G550, but also for the latest Gulfstream model.” said Oliver...

Lufthansa Technik launches project for the digitalization of aircraft cabins

Lufthansa Technik AG’s “Cabin 4.0” project relies on the use of intelligent automation to simplify procedures in the aircraft cabin for both passengers and flight crews and to offer increased comfort. For this purpose, tasks that have been performed manually so far will be taken over by state-of-the-art sensors, thus giving flight attendants more time for...

Boeing Expands Pilot Training Network

Boeing announced it has officially launched its global network of Boeing Training Providers to support its Pilot Development Program. The flight schools – Avion Training, part of Avion Group in the Netherlands, International Airline Training Academy (IATA) in Napa, CA, and SAA International (SAA), a subsidiary of Velocity Education, in San Diego, CA – were subject to a rigorous revi...

Helisota and Cobham Helicopter Academy to partner on helicopter maintenance and pilot training

Cobham Helicopter Academy has signed its first collaboration agreement with leading helicopter maintenance and repair specialist, Helisota. The partnership will encourage referrals between the two organisations, the exploration of mutually beneficial opportunities, and ultimately enable both the Cobham Helicopter Academy and Helisota to respond to new market demands for enhanced standards of initi...

RUAG fulfils custom interior refurbishment on new Indian-registered Bombardier Global 5000

RUAG Aviation in Munich has completed the upgrade and restyling of a recently-purchased Bombardier Global 5000 registered in India. The customer approached the Bombardier Authorised Service Centre to install a custom configuration featuring an additional divan and then chose to optimise the aircraft’s downtime at the RUAG Aviation one-stop shop with IFE upgrades and the restyling of fur...

Etihad Airways Engineering Becomes First Middle East Mro To Receive Production Approval From EASA

Etihad Airways Engineering has become the first organisation in the Middle East to be granted with a Part21G Production Organisation Approval (POA) by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). With the new approval Etihad Airways Engineering is now entitled to manufacture interior parts such as seat covers, carpets, curtains, decals and markings alongside composite and other cabin structures...

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