GE and Emirates announced that the carrier's Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, powered by GE90-115Bs, has flown one year without cancellation, unscheduled engine removals or inflight shutdowns. Emirates' 13 GE90-115Bs-powered 777-300ERs have logged more than 50,000 flight hours and 8,000 cycles.
Jet Aviation Basel's completion center paired with Peder Eidsgaard, a yacht and aircraft interior designer, to create interior concepts for Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A350 jets.
Bharat Malkani, chairman of Max Aerospace & Aviation, has run his small maintenance shop chiefly for passion. Now, he wants to run it more as a business and is looking for global partners. Max has 50 employees, is set to double in a few months, and has 30,000 square feet of hangar and facilities in suburban Mumbai, and Malkani hopes to add a widebody hangar in 20 months. "We have the land already," he noted.
Republic of China Air Force (RoCAF) plans were revealed in April to upgrade its F-16 and Dassault Mirage 2000-5 combat aircraft, pending their long-term replacement, for which F-35B STOVL versions of the Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) are currently favored. The Taiwanese air force ordered 120/30 F-16C/D-20s in 1992, followed by 48/12 Mirage 2000-5E/Ds, plus 103/28 AIDC FCK-1A/B Ching Kuo Indigenous Defence Fighter (IDF) single/two-seat combat aircraft.
Embraer signed an agreement with the Rivers State government of Nigeria to support the government's single Legacy 600. Five-year agreement covers scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, OEM parts replacement and maintenance tracking and control.
ExecuJet plans to open an FBO within the Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services complex at Berlin Schonefeld Airport in June. Andreas Kaden, managing director of LBAS, said "There is a big advantage to being close to aircraft sales, so we can talk with customers early in the sales process." This could be particularly advantageous for services such as interior refurbishments, which LBAS does and frequently are done at change of ownership. LBAS completed 700 aircraft work orders last year, which is 100 more than in 2004. Kaden expects similar growth this year.
Smiths Aerospace received a $90 million risk and revenue sharing contract from GE Aircraft Engines to supply six major components for the nearly 750 engine upgrade kits for the J85 Propulsion Modernization Program on U.S. Air Force T-38 Talons trainers.
Welcome to our eighth annual O&M Guide to MRO Companies Worldwide. Our Guide features listings for companies that perform airframe work, engine overhaul, avionics repair, and components maintenance. Within each of these four categories, the listings appear geographically and within each region, alphabetically.
Warner Robins Air Logistics Center won the 2006 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research for streamlining its aircraft repair and overhaul center.
Qantas and GE celebrated one million flight hours without an engine-caused inflight shutdown for the airline's CF6-powered aircraft fleet. This represents a performance six times better than the world average.
BAE Systems Nashua received a $52 million follow-on U.S. Army contract in April to provide at least 200 Common Missile-Warning Systems (CMWS) to protect Army fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft against infrared guided-missile threats. BAE's CMWS deliveries to the Army already have reached 40 per month from a September 2004 indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract, and are still increasing.
If you think of maintenance human factors as a technology, then Mickey Cohen is an example of technology transfer. Cohen, vice president of operations and engineering with AAR Corp., was with US Air in 1989 when the carrier and the FAA developed the very first maintenance human factors (MHF) program; he went to Aloha Airlines after the infamous 737 "convertible" accident in 1988; he moved to Alaska Airlines, as the senior vice president of maintenance and engineering, after the MD-83 crash in 2000. In each location, he brought his MHF know-how to the table.
Boeing Integrated Defense joined L-3 Integrated Systems and Alenia North America as part of Global Military Aircraft Systems, which is competing for the U.S. Army/Air Force Joint Cargo Aircraft program.
Aeromexico became part of Boeing's Component Service Program, which is a parts provisioning program. Aeromexico initially subscribed to cover two 777-200ERs.
Precision Conversions received a contract from Cygnus Air for a 757-200PCF freighter conversion. The aircraft, currently in passenger service with Audeli, will enter the conversion process in July.
Boeing is expanding its Boeing Converted Freighter program to include the 767-300. The company is in negotiations with a single overhaul center that specializes in passenger-to-freighter conversions. It expects to sign a deal by early summer. All Nippon Airways is the launch customer for the 767-300BCF program and is to take delivery of its first aircraft in fourth quarter 2007.
The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority and an industry team has been working since last year on adapting the European Aviation Safety Agency maintenance regulations to suit the Australian maintenance rules. The joint industry/government team is drafting Notices of Proposed Rule Making for maintenance regulations based on the European counterparts; however keeping existing rules and conditions that are unique to Australia, such as the continent's general aviation industry.
