Mature-aircraft trader and lessor Vallair, which is the launch customer for the first Airbus A321 passenger-to-freight conversion, is actively seeking more A321s to join eight that it already has slated for conversion.

MRO Briefs-Oct. 19, 2018

Green Africa Airways has appointed Kristof Hegedus as its founding director of ground operations.

UK-based MRO provider Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has finalized the terms of its new ownership structure, with a transaction in which UK investment group Greybull Capital becomes the owner of the company.

Turkish Technic has grown its third-party maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) to 25% of its total revenue, up from 15% two years ago, through more efficient use of its existing facilities.

A newly released Aviation Week Intelligence Network 2019 Commercial Fleet and MRO Forecast, shows that the commercial air transport fleet, for which growth is underpinned by multiple macro-economic trends, will experience growth of 2.8% on deliveries of nearly 23,200 turbofan- and turboprop-powered aircraft over the coming decade.

Lessors AerCap, GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) and IBA Group are seeing concrete advances in the acceptance of digital aircraft records, which is one of several factors hampering smooth aircraft-lease transitions.

MRO Briefs-Oct. 17, 2018