Aveos has appointed Tim Canavan to the position of senior VP, maintenance operations. Canavan comes from National Express, where he served as group director and senior VP of fleet technical operations. Other appointments include Shannon Wagner, VP and general manager, component solutions; Bob Madigan, VP and general manager, engines; and Mike New, VP corporate safety, quality assurance and training.
Transiting the customs landscape can be decidedly confusing for shippers of aircraft parts and components. Some regions, such as the European Union, offer predictable, patterned portals, moving equipment through customs in good time, while other areas, such as Brazil, are more challenging.
The Air Transport Association's Engineering, Maintenance, and Materiel Council (EMMC) has appointed Jon Oberdick as its new chairman. Oberdick, US Airways' managing director of technical services, was elected Oct. 12 during the quarterly EMMC meeting.
Maintenance operates in a global world with an increasingly fragmented supply chain. Everyone has or is moving toward greater automation of data handling and transfer—but with widely different systems. How can all these systems talk to each other?
ST Aerospace Technologies (Xiamen) Co. Ltd. (STATCO) has opened a facility in Xiamen, China, that will overhaul and repair the CFM International CFM56-7B and -5B series engines that power the Boeing 737NG and Airbus A320 aircraft, respectively. The new joint venture facility has the capacity to handle 300 engines per year.
Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) plans to input 45 Etihad Airways aircraft for heavy maintenance checks as part of its new four-year contract that covers all of the United Arab Emirates' fleet. The contract, which lasts from 2012-15, covers 4C and six-year checks on Etihad's Airbus A319, A320, A330, A340-500, A340-600 and Boeing 777 aircraft.
InfoTrust Group has added Michael Wm. Denis as VP consulting, bringing more than two decades of aviation experience to the group. Denis will lead corporate strategy for InfoTrust's new consulting and advisory service practice. In the past, Denis has held positions at ICF SH&E, Blue Water Solutions and Accenture.
STS Aviation Group has promoted Pat Cunnane to VP business development for the group. Cunnane joined STS in 2009 as the director of business development. He will lead STS' business development team for STS AeroStaff Services, line engineering and line maintenance units.
Turkish Technic has signed a base maintenance services agreement for one Boeing 737-500 re-delivery check and a Boeing 737-400 C check. Pegasus Airlines is based in Istanbul and operates 29 next-generation Boeing aircraft and 3 Boeing 737 classic aircraft. Turkish Technic has also signed a C check maintenance service agreement with Onur Air for two Airbus A321 aircraft. It will complete the maintenance work for these aircraft at its facilities in Istanbul. Parts/Components
Although the sidewalls, overhead bins and passenger service units of an aircraft appear to be made of the same material, each different part of the cabin interior is treated with a specialized chemical, depending on its function.
Given that your founders are Deutsch Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, how has that influenced your technical operations? Sayar: Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines have their own MROs as their subsidiaries, which are very well known in the market in terms of quality. So, of course our technical operations very much benefit from their experience and know-how, but if you answer that question from a contracting decision-making point of view, we are free to decide what is best for us: they do not influence us.
FL Technics has expanded its maintenance partnership with Europe Airpost to provide maintenance services for the airline's three Boeing 737 classic aircraft. The first arrived at FL Technics' maintenance base in Vilinus, Lithuania in September.
Oman Air uses Honeywell's MCS-7200 Inmarsat SwiftBroadband satellite communications equipment on its Airbus A330 fleet, and it recently won the APEX award for best inflight connectivity and communications using the technology. The SwiftBroadband system offers a speed of 432 kbps in Oman's configuration. The system is made up of a six-MCU satellite data unit, an eight-MCU high power amplifier and a four-MCU high-speed data unit. The HPA provides 60 watts of power and the HSU has four dedicated Swift64 channels in a single LRU.
Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) opened its 46,200-sq. meter (151,575-sq. ft.) hangar, which provides capacity to double the company's heavy maintenance business. ADAT announced at the opening that it has struck a deal with U.A.E. national carrier Etihad Airways to expand the operator's maintenance agreement.
Aircraft electrical wiring systems can be complicated, but new tools are helping maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities quickly and easily obtain the materials in the case of an aircraft on ground (AOG) situation.
Virgin America has selected Lufthansa Systems' BoardConnect platform as the technology partner for the latest version of its Red inflight entertainment system, which will launch in late 2012. Back-end testing of the new system is underway, and the airline says that the new platform will provide entertainment in each seatback as well as connectivity to passengers' own personal electronic devices. Parts/Components
Air Panama has become the fourth operator to use Fokker Services' FlyFokker program, which it will use for its two newly acquired Fokker 70 aircraft. The program will offer on-site technical training and a modification to change the aircraft from 48 to 72 seats. The operator also will use Fokker Service's Abacus per-hour lease and exchange program for major rotables, APUs, landing gear and brakes.
Something big is on the horizon: current orders stand at 1,624 for the next-generation, composites-intensive commercial aircraft, and that's just counting the obvious short list of Airbus A380, A350 XWB and Boeing 787 models. Monolithic structural components—which could reach an estimated 100 plies or up to 2 in. of thickness—will dominate on these aircraft, with total composites content by weight ranging from 25% (A380) and 50% (787) to 53% (A350).
Co-Operative Industries has an AS9100 facility to manufacture and design wiring harnesses, cable, ignition leads and flexible conduits. Its repair station is certified by the FAA, EASA and CAAC and provides customers such as Delta TechOps with check and testing of accessories, repair and overhaul services. Co-Operative Industries repairs harnesses and cables for GE's GE90 and CF6-80C engines, the CFM International CFM56-5A/5B/5C/7B models and the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 QEC. www.coopind.com
FL Technics performed cabin interior modifications and reconfigurations on two Boeing 737-800s and a Boeing 737-300 aircraft for Transaero Airlines. The MRO did the modifications at its hangar in Vilinus, Lithuania. FL Technics installed new business and economy class seats, installed a new IFE system in the business class, changed the emergency floor path lighting and performed cabin refurbishment services on the three aircraft.
Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services has received a maintenance certification for the Ukraine and will support charter airline Air Italy's fleet of Boeing aircraft. The certification, from the Aviation Administration of Ukraine, will allow Boeing Shanghai to do line and base maintenance work on Boeing 767-200/-300 aircraft for Ukraine-based customers. Boeing Shanghai will support Air Italy with maintenance services for its Boeing fleet for up to two years, starting with a C check on a Boeing 767-300ER scheduled for this month.
Chromalloy has established Chromalloy Korea, a new subsidiary in Seoul, South Korea. The new company will serve as a sales, marketing and customer support office. Chromalloy has been establishing itself in Asian markets, opening a new Beijing office in 2010 and doubling capacity at its turbine engine repair and manufacturing facility in Bangkok.
Innotech-Execaire Aviation Group has appointed Ken Moon to the position of regional manager of its aircraft sales division for western Canada. Moon comes to the position with 32 years of experience in aircraft logistics and management.
AeroSoft Systems will provide its DigiDOC content management environment to Icelandair Technical Services. The MRO will use the software to support the Icelandair fleet as well as its third-party MRO business. AeroSoft will implement DigiDOC for task card management and then functions such as interactive technical publications and OEM digital content revision management.
