MRO Briefs-Aug. 10, 2017

MRO Briefs-Aug. 9, 2017

Russia’s S7 Engineering, an MRO member of the S7 Group, will provide maintenance for Azimuth Airline’s Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) fleet, the regional carrier said in a statement Aug. 8.

Boeing has named Phil Musser as the company's next senior vice president of communications, succeeding Tom Downey, who has announced plans to step down from the role late this month and retire from the company early next year.

Emirates Flight Training Academy has taken delivery of its first two Cirrus SR22 G6 training aircraft in Dubai. These are the first of the 22 single-piston engine Cirrus aircraft that have been ordered by the Academy to train ab initio pilots.

The African airline industry is facing a critical shortage of well-trained aviation professionals. Kaleyesus Bekele has been looking at the problem.

Qatar Aeronautical College (QAC) has ordered 14 training aircraft and two simulators from Austria's Diamond Aircraft

Beaverton, Oregon-based Precision Aircraft Solutions (PAS) and Wilmington, Ohio-based Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) have formed a joint venture (JV) company to develop a passenger-to-freighter conversion of the Airbus A321-200.