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Luxaviation Belgium unveils four million euro hangar at Kortrijk-Wevelgem International Airport

SR Technics opens a new training center in Abu Dhabi

SR Technics, a world leading MRO service provider, has opened a new world-class training center in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi offering flexible, comprehensive training solutions to supplement the company’s existing training facilities in Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2008 SR Technics has...

TAG Aviation Completes First 120- Month Inspection on Global Express Aircraft

TAG Aviation Maintenance Services Europe has completed its first 120-month inspection on a Global Express aircraft. The 120-month inspection project - which was completed in August and has been carried out at TAG Farnborough’s Maintenance Services Centre - included a full strip and repai...

GE Aviation launches Configuration Data Exchange to reduce maintenance costs

GE Aviation launched the Configuration Data Exchange for the aviation industry, establishing an exchange of data to drive asset productivity and maintenance optimization across the aviation ecosystem. The Configuration Data Exchange connects aviation companies and allows for the digital exchange of key operations, maintenance and configuration data. In basic terms, this can be thought of as a d...

Pratt & Whitney PurePower® Engines Transform Aviation with VivaAerobus

Pratt & Whitney's PurePower Geared Turbofan Engine™ has entered into service with VivaAerobus on the operator's A320neo. The aircraft made its first passenger flight on Oct. 18 from Monterrey to Guadalajara, Mexico. This milestone comes days after the last leg of the aircraft's ferry flight became the longest A320neo flight to date. The flight from Ke...

Vector Aerospace completes first Pratt & Whitney Canada PW305A engine test at UK facility

Vector Aerospace, a global independent provider of aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services, has recently completed its first Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) PW305A engine test at its Fleetlands facility in Gosport, Hants, UK. The announcement highlights Vector’s continuous growth in the business and general aviation engine support market. Commenting on the milestone...

Jet Aviation signs agreement for its 10th C-Check on a Dassault Falcon 7X in Basel

Jet Aviation’s Maintenance Center in Basel recently signed an agreement with an undisclosed customer that will have the company perform its 10th C-Check on a Dassault Falcon F7X. Jet Aviation completed its first C-Check on this aircraft type in April 2015. As a Dassault Falcon Authorized Service Center, Jet Aviation’s Maintenance Center in Basel is quickly gaining exp...

Ecocopter takes delivery of Frasca EC135 simulator

Frasca International, Inc. (Frasca) announced that Ecocopter, Santiago, Chile has taken delivery of their Frasca built EC-135 Helicopter Flight Training Device (FTD) at their flight training facility located at the Eulogio Sanchez Airport in Santiago. This is the first of two Helicopter FTDs that Frasca will be providing to EcoCopter. The second device, an AS350B FTD will be installed at...

Final approval: Lufthansa Technik provides complete support for A350

Comprehensive maintenance approvals from the German Federal Aviation Office (LBA) for the A350-900. Lufthansa Technik AG is equipped to perform all work required for the complete maintenance of the new Lufthansa Airbus A350-900, the team is trained and ready to go and the company is licensed by the German Federal Aviation Office (LBA). The handing over of the “Base&nbs...

Etihad Airways Engineering and Airbus sign MoU to develop A380 MRO Services in Abu Dhabi

Etihad Airways Engineering and Airbus have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work jointly on the development of a new A380 MRO Services offering. With this partnership Airbus and Etihad Airways Engineering will combine their respective skills to offer the market a value-adding MRO service solution for worldwide A380 operators, starting in 2017. The partnership aims to establish A380...

Dassault Falcon Service Inaugurates Bordeaux-Mérignac Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Facility

Dassault Falcon Service (DFS), a subsidiary of Dassault Aviation, inaugurated its new maintenance facility in Bordeaux-Mérignac intended to meet the increase in repair and overhaul services for the Falcon 7X and other new Falcon models. Eric Trappier, Dassault Aviation Chairman/CEO, and Jean Kayanakis, DFS General Manager, oversaw the ceremony attended by a host of local, regional and na...

StandardAero signs agreement for Chinese M250 helicopter engine maintenance partnership

StandardAero has signed a new agreement with Chinese partner, ChongQing General Aviation Co., Ltd. (CQGA), establishing CQGA as the company’s first StandardAero approved service center for Rolls-Royce M250 engine maintenance services in China. The agreement was signed by CQGA and StandardAero executives on Nov. 1 at the Zhuhai Airshow. The new agreement will provide Chinese operator...

First CFM56-5C engine flies more than 100,000 flight hours on Lufthansa Airbus A340

There’s every reason to celebrate at CFM International and Lufthansa Technik AG, with the first CFM56-5C engine having passed the 100,000 flight hour threshold. The engine drives the Airbus A340 and has reliably been in continuous use since 1993 at Lufthansa Passage. The engine with the serial number ESN 740146 began its career on November 16, 1993...

Oman Air opens its training centre with new sims from TRU

Oman Air has opened its new training centre in Muscat following the delivery and qualification of two new full flight simulators from Textron subsidiary, TRU Simulation + Training . The two full flight simulators (FFS) are for the B737 and A330 aircraft operated by Oman Air along with a flight training device and virtual cockpit classroom for the B737NG aircraft. The suite of training p...

TAG Aviation’s LeBourget Maintenance Service Centre Receives BombardierBusines Aircraft ASF Award

TAG Aviation’s Maintenance Services Centre at Le Bourget Airport in Paris, France, has received the Bombardier Business Aircraft Authorized Service Facility (ASF) Excellence Award for ‘Line Maintenance’ for the second successive year. The Bombardier Business Aircraft ASF Excellence Awards are presented annually to Bombardier Business Aircraft ASFs that deliver the best per...

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