Messier Services will repair and overhaul Ansett Australia's narrowbody fleet of 22 Boeing 737 and 11 Airbus A320 aircraft under a $5 million (U.S.) contract. Contract is new Messier-Bugatti unit's first for comprehensive service for an airline's entire single-aisle fleet.
Aero Quality Sales and Electromech Technologies have formed a rotable exchange pool to service the needs of Raytheon Beech 1900 and King Air operators. The pool will consist of products manufactured by Electromech, primarily AC and DC motors, valves, blowers and actuators.
Rolls-Royce and Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego, Calif., formed Data Systems and Solutions, a 50/50 joint venture to combine engineering and information technology capabilities. Planned services include trend monitoring, maintenance planning and sched- uling and avoidance of unscheduled removal. Miles Cowdry was named president.
The delineation between line maintenance and heavy maintenance becomes fuzzier every day as more airlines seek to ``phase'' their heavy checks, spreading the heavy-check tasks over a series of smaller checks.
Druck, Inc. received a $7.6 million contract for 248 air data test sets and associated data used to test avionics equipment on a variety of Navy aircraft. Work will be performed in New Fairfield, Conn., and Groby, U.K.
It started with a letter, a businesslike but friendly communi-cation between two old friends, both visionaries, both Renaissance men of sorts. The writer was Hubert Naimer, a wealthy Austrian industrialist and entrepreneur with a passionate -- almost fierce -- involvement in aviation. The letter was addressed to Naimer's friend and fellow aviation enthusiast Dr. Karl Frudenfeld, a dentist residing in Southern California.
AMECO-Beijing repainted a Boeing 747-400 aircraft for Canadian Airlines International. AMECO also completed some refurbishment in the aircraft's cabin.
Frontier Airlines will start performing heavy checks on its 17 Boeing 737 aircraft beginning March 1 at Denver International Airport, and has begun hiring about 105 maintenance and stores employees. Frontier expects to save about $1 million per year by bringing the work, mainly C checks, in-house. Airline expects to spend $500,000 on tooling, equipment and parts for the maintenance work.
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Sogerma Maintenance Group subsidiary SECA was awarded a contract to service 12 classified Falcon 20s for the French military. Three-year contract was awarded by SPAE, the aeronautical production division of the French Arms and Weapons Authority.
Cathay Pacific Engineering is nearly two years into an eight-year program to upgrade its maintenance information system, and despite the early stage the effort already is showing signs of significant bottom-line savings. The impetus that led to the decision to upgrade Cathay's Engineering, Maintenance, Planning, and Control Systems. or EMPACS, came in 1994, some three years before the project began in earnest, said Cam Ng, systems manager of engineering and inflight services for Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways.
Raytheon Aircraft Services-Atlanta expanded its hours of operation to add a second weekday shift and a weekend shift. New hours are from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern time Monday through Thursday and to 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Long-term RAF proposals for a major up-grade of its 140 or so BAe Hawk T.1/1A advanced jet-trainers to rectify fuselage fatigue problems and extend their planned out-of-service date to 2010, finally resulted in an initial $166 million MoD contract last December with British Aerospace Military and Air-craft Aerostructures Division (MA&AD).
Electroid Company of Springfield, N.J., is offering BSB bi-stable brakes in four sizes, with torque ranges from .75 in./lbs. to 35 in./lbs. Suitable for any battery-powered or low current-supply applications requiring a brake, BSB brakes can be used on aircraft actuators, missile systems, satellites, and other applications. System is engineered to operate without continuous current supply when heat and power conservation are essential. Operating system employs permanent magnets, an electromagnetic coil and springs.
Lufthansa Technik (LHT) invested an additional $3 million in HEICO Aerospace Holdings Corp. LHT owns 20% of the joint venture with HEICO Corp. LHT has invested $38 million in HEICO Aerospace Holdings.
UAL Services will provide maintenance and repair support of Pratt&Whitney PW2000 engines powering four USAF C-32 (Boeing 757) aircraft to be used by the U.S. vice president and other high-ranking officials. UAL Services will station personnel at Andrews AFB, near Washington, D.C., for the job.
FAA named Daniel J. Mehan the agency's first chief information officer. Mehan, who comes to FAA from AT&T, where he most recently was international vice president of quality and process management, reports to Administrator Jane Garvey.
Aviation Group will acquire Aviation Laboratories, a Texas-based specialist in fluid analysis for regional, corporate and general aviation products. Purchase includes 50% ownership of PartsBase.com, an Internet-based aviation parts clearinghouse operated by Aviation Laboratories since 1997.
The European Union's prospective limit on use of hushkitted and certain reengined aircraft ``targets non-European operators ... and spares European operators,''denying U.S. carriers the ``unqualified right'' to select the best-suited Chapter 3-compliant aircraft for its operations, Northwest Airlines said in a complaint to DOT against the EU.
