AJW Aviation has been selected by Russia’s JSC UTair Aviation to provide power-by-the-hour support for JSC’s fleet of 37 Boeing 737-500s and 737-400s.

Kellstrom Commercial Aerospace has acquired AirLiance Materials from Lufthansa Technik.

Locatory.com, which provides aviation supply-chain optimization, has signed a cooperation agreement with Engineering-the Aviation Maintenance Holding, the largest independent MRO service provider in Russia.

Canada’s Sky Regional Airlines has signed an exclusive eight-year-agreement with Lufthansa Technik AERO Alzey for engine services on Sky's PW150As. Several airlines operating mostly new Boeing 777-300ERs with GE Aviation GE90-115B engines are either replacing engines or gearboxes since GE issued two service bulletins after two inflight shut downs due to gear separation in gearboxes.

Briefs from the May 22, 2013 issue of ATW's MRO Digest

GA Telesis has acquired part of Finnair Engine Services and will employ 80 engine service professionals from Finnair’s existing workforce.

Precision Conversions has received an FAA Supplemental Type Certificate for its Boeing 757-200PCC Combi variant.

Avtrade has contracted with DB Schenker to store, manage and provide local logistics services to support Avtrade’s Dubai and Singapore operations.