The carrier is trialing Donecle drones for completing significantly quicker autonomous checks of aircraft in its fleet.

The MRO looks to build its component repair and accessories business by adding Safe Aviation Solutions’ capabilities to its portfolio.

Terms of bilateral aviation safety agreements can be tricky, but on balance they are often helpful, especially for smaller MROs.

Air-taxi operations will require each eVTOL vehicle to stream live telemetry data to central operations centers for human oversight.

Amman-based Joramco, the MRO and engineering arm of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), has become the first independent MRO in the MENA region to receive the EN9110:2018 certification.

Qatar Airways engineers are using a ground-breaking virtual reality (VR) tool from Rolls-Royce for refresher training on the Trent XWB engine after the Gulf carrier became the global launch partner for the tool in April.

African aviation has a quandary: operators can’t afford to keep spending their maintenance budgets abroad, while establishing their own maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facilities is prohibitively expensive. But there is movement in the right direction, as Chuck Grieve reports.

The Independent Aircraft Modifier Alliance aims to tackle common STC problems, harmonize best practices and develop a common voice for its members.