Southwest Airlines named Greg Wells as senior vice president of operations, reporting to Mike Van de Ven, the airline's new executive vice president and chief of operations.
Aeroflot-Don selected Lufthansa Technik's Total Component Support program for its two 737-500s and additional four on order. The six-year contract also includes MRO services for APUs and special services during the early phase.
Kansas City Aviation Center expanded to Spirit of St. Louis Airport by opening the Midwest Aviation Center, the facility of which consists of a six-year-old hangar with an attached office structure.
Alaska Airlines completed the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Operational Safety Audit (IOSA), which serves as a worldwide benchmark for airline safety and quality. To achieve IOSA Registration, Alaska Airlines satisfied more than 700 standards in eight operational areas, including aircraft engineering and maintenance, flight operations, operational control and flight dispatch, cabin operations, aircraft ground handling, cargo operations and operational security.
Loos signed a data license agreement with Boeing to allow Loos to use detail engineering design to obtain PMA for wire rope flight control cable assemblies. Loos will manufacture the PMA parts under its quality system, and it can distribute the assemblies directly to operators. Loos manufactures 5,000 items used on Boeing aircraft.
XIAMEN, CHINA -- Boeing continues to enthusiastically promote passive radio frequency identification (RFID) smart tags for use on commercial aircraft. The 70 Boeing 787 component suppliers that must incorporate smart labels on about 1,750 parts are entrench- ed in the smart labels details, as Boeing prepares for the aircraft's first flight next year.
Rolls-Royce Defense Services won a $65.3 million fixed-price modification to a previously awarded requirements contract to exercise an option for power-by-the-hour logistics support for 188 T-45 F405-RR-401 engines. Work is expected to be completed in September 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
ATA Airlines appointed Gary Ellmer as senior vice president of operations and general manager of charter. He most recently was president and COO for American Eagle's Executive Airlines/American Eagle Caribbean unit.
Pratt & Whitney Canada named John Saabas as executive vice president and Benoît Brossoit as senior vice president of service centers and operations. Saabas most recently was senior vice president of engineering and operations, and Brossoit previously was vice president of service centers.
Air France Industries appointed Pierre Bosse senior vice president of its Components and Logistics Services business unit. He succeeds Pierre Reville, who has left the company to go to Sabena Technics, where he is executive vice president and director of operations. Bosse, who has been with Air France since 1981, most recently led AFI's new narrowbody overhaul site at Toulouse/Blagnac.
The Flight Safety Foundation and three other internationally recognized aviation safety groups recently issued a joint resolution condemning the increasing criminalization of accident investigations. We as an industry should embrace the resolution and do everything in our power to spread the word.
China Airlines will use Mxi Techno- logies' Maintenix software, via Boeing's Enterprise One solution, as its integrated solution for its maintenance and engineering needs. CAL will use Boeing's Enterprise One suite, which includes maintenance program management; configuration management; engineering; planning, control, and execution for line, heavy, and shop maintenance; and materials management, for its Boeing and Airbus aircraft.
Thales in France selected Barco's brand-new CHDD-254 cockpit head-down displays (HDD) for the electronic warfare upgrade of the Belgian air force's (FAeB) 11 Lockheed C-130H transports. Designed to DO-254 and DO-178B standards, the 5-by-4-inch CHDD-254 lightweight low-power display is the first of Barco's innovative CHDD-2000 family and will be linked to Thales new electronic warfare suite scheduled for Belgian C-130H installation.
Two contracts to provide enhan- ced logistic support for bombs carried by RAF and Royal Navy fast-jets were awarded by the MoD's Defense Logistics Organi- sation to EDO MBM Technology Ltd. and Portsmouth Aviation on Aug. 21. Under the new arrangements, EDO MBM will provide technical support, repair and procurement for Tornado, Jaguar, Hawk and Harrier bomb carriage and release equipment. Meanwhile, Portsmouth Aviation will provide similar services for practice bombs, bomb tails, bomb fuze 951 and ancillary equipment.
Rockwell Collins is introducing a digital version of PAVES, its programmable audio video entertainment system. The new system, called dPAVES, will be available in early 2008 as a retrofit for narrowbody Airbus and Boeing aircraft.
NAT Seattle and Satcom1 partnered to create an integrated airborne voice and data networking solution that can be used by operators of Swift64 or SwiftBroadband Satcom Systems. The package uses NAT Seattle's JetLAN AR250 airborne computer and Satcom1's Linux-based software to enable multiple users onboard an aircraft to share a connection. Applications include features such as music, movies, WiFi access with full-featured security, web server, firewall and printer server. NAT Seattle, 22125 17th Ave. SE, Suite 107, Bothell, WA 98021
SAS Technical Services appointed Par Christiansen as chief financial officer and Lars Kleppe as chief commercial officer. Christiansen has worked for the SAS Group since 2003, including managing the group's cost control program called "Turnaround 2005." Klepp, who is new to SAS, previously was managing director and board member at Balfour Beatty Rail.
Jet Aviation Basel received certification from the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Aviation as a POA approved facility in accordance with EASA's 21 Subpart G regulations. With this certification, the company can supply its parts as replacements to customers with an EASA Form 1 certificate, which is issued by the facility.
TAP Portugal selected General Electric's CF6 engines for five Airbus A330-200 aircraft. The deal is worth $150 million. In addition, the airline signed a nine-year OnPoint Solutions service agreement worth $45 million for maintenance, overhaul and repair for the 11 CF6-80E1 engines powering the A330 fleet.
K-Sun's MaxiSoft MaxiSigns V.2 software is used for making safety signs. It can be set to configure signs in many different languages and it has 580 new symbols, which can be used in sign making. Also, the software has "click and edit" and auto text sizing functions for custom signs. K-Sun Corp., 370 SMC Dr., Somerset, WI 54025
Kaman Aerospace's Helicopters Division received a $3.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to provide for long-lead procurement and other work, related to planned upgrades of SH-2G(E) Super Seasprite helicopters operated by the Egyptian Air Force. As a modification to an existing NAVAIR contract, the funding is for a three-month period. It allows Kaman to begin long-lead material procurement and to initiate work on upgrades to the SH-2G(E)'s automated flight control system at its Bloomfield, Conn., facilities.
Aerospace Products International opened a distribution and logistics center at London Luton Airport. The facility includes 7, 000 square feet of storage space, with potential for a 14,000 square foot expansion. It will allow the company to supply parts to European customers, as well as pre-position parts on a third-party logistics basis for Gulfstream, which operates a facility at that airport.
Why is Queretaro becoming one, if not the most important center in Mexico for aerospace activity? A look at the Queretaro state government-supplied statistics on the regional may provide some clues: * Free trade agreements with 46 countries * 406 exporting companies * Queretaro provides 36 percent of the state's GDP; 4.7 percent average annual GDP growth rate. * Home to Bombardier Aerospace, Messier Services, ITR-Turboreactores, GE CIAT and now Snecma America Engine Services (SAMES), a joint between ITR and Snecma Services
