Accident investigators are puzzling over the causes of the first ever failure of a second-stage high-pressure turbine stage on a General Electric CF6-80C2 engine which suffered an uncontained release of debris during the Oct. 28 takeoff run of an American Airlines Boeing 767-300ER from Chicago O’Hare International Airport.

Foreign countries still have advantages because of U.S. trade restrictions, the Aeronautical Repair Station Association notes.

With the next-generation air traffic management era commencing in North America and Europe in 2020, the airline avionics retrofit market will grow as more legacy aircraft see extended service.

With new engines generating about 1 TB of data per flight, the opportunity for predictive maintenance soars, if the right insight is available.

How two companies are harnessing information flowing from aircraft and engines for predictive maintenance.

Russian Helicopters is talking to potential partners about expanding maintenance, repair and overhaul services for its products in China.

Operators pay a fixed cost-per-flying-hour fee for a comprehensive range of scheduled and unscheduled engine maintenance events and benefits.

Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Co. (Gameco) has become Satair Group’s first Chinese customer for its Airbus Managed Inventory (AMI) service, an automated inventory management solution.