Regulators mandate manual checks before returning parked, older-generation Boeing 737s to service.

Europe’s Airbus A350-900 operators must conduct inspections at 2,300 flight cycles or within 50 cycles for engines that have hit the threshold for cracks in the intermediate pressure (IP) compressor blade roots, a draft EASA airworthiness directive said.

CFM Leap 1B-related restrictions likely first in a series of mandates to ensure product is not used on aircraft engines.

The airline says the facility is the largest MRO complex to be constructed in Brazil in the last 40 years.

Global coordination is essential to the aviation industry’s recovery from the pandemic.

A listing of airworthiness directive and bulletins from around the world.

It says its new Flashplug product is cheaper and up to 90% faster than traditional options for sealing engine exhausts on parked aircraft.

Ask the Editors: The TSA and Homeland Security should be mandating such checks and tests.