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Luxembourg Flight Training Academy acquires two compatible ALSIM simulators: the AIRLINER and the AL250

Dassault announces 2023 Falcon regional Maintenance & Operations seminar schedule

This year's Falcon Maintenance & Operations Seminars will kick off on April 5 in Paris, France and conclude May 17 in São Paulo, Brazil. Miami and Chicago will also be included on this year's M&O tour. The series will feature a smaller number of stops but an expanded, two...

Zelf Vliegen choses Tecnam P-Mentor for Transavia airline pilot program

Zelf Vliegen chose Tecnam P-Mentor for its fleet renewal program. The aircraft will be used for both PPL – Private Pilot License – as well as the MPL – Multi Pilot License – courses. The characteristics of the P-Mentor meet the requirements of Transavia’s Airl...

Training center for engine mechanics opened

Following the Corona crisis, the workload in Lufthansa Technik engine shops is steadily increasing again and requires a large number of highly-qulified engine mechanics. To meet the increasing demand, Lufthansa Technik is now further qualifying people who have already completed a technical or craft apprenticeship and will invest 7.5 million Euros in a training center in Hamburg-Rahlstedt. Thi...

Eight students graduate airBaltic Pilot Academy

eight students graduated from the Latvian national airline’s airBaltic Pilot Academy, receiving a commercial pilot license upon completion of the full-time airline transport pilot program. In addition, already the 17th group of 17 students began their professional pilot studies.The latest graduates represent countries such as Germany, Italy, Lithuania, and Latvia. The 17th gro...

RMIT Aviation Academy launches with university sector largest aircraft fleet

RMIT University has celebrated the launch of the RMIT Aviation Academy, which will bring together the university’s flight training, education offerings and research to support the growing demand for global aviation workforce skills and training. It is poised to be at the forefront of aviation education and innovation and is already sector-leading in pilot training with the largest owned...

Binter signs contract with Embraer to adopt Beacon as its digital maintenance platform

Binter Canarias and Embraer signed a contract to adopt the Beacon digital platform for its E195-E2 fleet maintenance. The Canary Island airline's decision came after successful testing of the coordination platform that connects resources and professionals for the quickest return of aircraft to service. Beacon is an agnostic platform, that serves aircraft from all manufacturers. This i...

J&C Aero flies high in 2022, expands production facilities

J&C Aero reported a 285% increase in its annual revenues that reached 10 mln euros in 2022. The company has also expanded its cabin interior production facilities to 2000 sq. m. According to the annual report, the company’s design team implemented cabin modifications on over a thousand aircraft while the production and Part 145 units produced, refurbished, and overhauled nearly...

Lufthansa Technik & Avianca five years of AVIATAR support for Airbus fleet

Lufthansa Technik and Colombian carrier Avianca have signed a five-year contract that will provide digital Condition Monitoring through the AVIATAR platform. With the new contract, Avianca will be able to receive instant and real-time information about the configuration and condition of its Airbus A320 and A330 aircraft as well as their engines and components – during flight and on ground, a...

Lufthansa Technik and Azerbaijan Airlines sign component services contract

Azerbaijan Airlines and Lufthansa Technik have signed a comprehensive five-year contract regarding a Total Component Support for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner wide-body long-range fleet of the Republic of Azerbaijan's national air carrier. The carrier's first TCS contract, which comes into effect on May 1, will significantly strengthen Azerbaijan Airlines' technical operations. It...

Pratt & Whitney GTF engines to be overhauled in new, dedicated Delta TechOps facility

Delta TechOps and Pratt & Whitney celebrated the unveiling of a new, larger TechOps engine overhaul facility dedicated to the global Pratt & Whitney GTF engine MRO network. The 155,000-square-foot facility in Atlanta will house disassembly, assembly and test capability for engines powering Airbus A220 and A320neo family aircraft. Leadership from Delta and Pratt & Whitney were...

Sustainable Aviation Discussion Panel - flight training - how we move towards sustainable operations

The time has come, we are launching our Sustainable Aviation Discussion Panel. A term which is more than actual nowadays. However, it seems useful to us to move forward step by step - defining the field - what is sustainable aviation, what are urgent needs of the industry in order to proceed with the application of many standards and regulations meant to achieve net zero by 2050. The...

MTU Maintenance Dallas moves into new facility

MTU Maintenance Dallas will relocate from Grapevine, Texas to a larger facility at nearby Fort Worth Alliance Airport. This will create significantly more capacity. The new climate-controlled shop will have 430,000 square feet of space - an increase of 400 percent compared to the previous location. The new facility will not only accommodate increasing space requirements and a growing wo...

First freighter modified with AeroSHARK enters scheduled service

World first cargo aircraft modified with the fuel-saving AeroSHARK surface technology entered scheduled service in Frankfurt. After SWISS has been transporting passengers since October with the first Boeing 777-300ER modified in this way, Lufthansa Cargo is now premiering this technology in airfreight with their first 777F. The modification, jointly developed by Lufthansa Technik and BASF, en...

SG Aéro acquires an ALSIM AL250 simulator

SG Aéro based at the Troyes LFQB airfield, France, has bought an ALSIM AL250 simulator. The AL250 simulator addresses initial phase training needs (PPL, CPL, IR/ME) and is SEP/MEP re-configurable simulator certified as an EASA FNPT II and TC Level 2 IPC. In addition, it offers both classic and glass cockpit for each flight model at the simple flick of a switch. This device has been ext...

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