Bahrain-based Aero Gulf Group’s Sola Engine Center in Norway—which was purchased from Pratt & Whitney in late 2013—is ready to overhaul CFM56s after reorganizing and streamlining the new investment.
The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is preparing to begin inspecting foreign aircraft repair shops, fulfilling a mandate Congress issued 10 years ago and ending a moratorium on the FAA authorization of new overseas repair stations.
In 2013, French regional turboprop manufacturer ATR Customer Support signed 15 Global Maintenance Agreements (GMA) covering more than 160 aircraft and valued at over $330 million.
Safran’s Cenco has won a contract with Saudia Aerospace Engineering Industries for construction of a 14-meter test-cell facility in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Japan Airlines (JAL) said a “main battery failure occurred” on one of its Boeing 787-8s parked at Tokyo Narita Airport on Tuesday. The airline reported that “white smoke” was seen in the incident, which resulted in no injuries.
French regional turboprop manufacturer ATR is reporting the company signed 15 global maintenance agreements (GMAs) during 2013, adding over 160 additional aircraft to its existing aircraft-in-service fleet of approximately 300 aircraft.
Low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle has secured an agreement from Boeing to beef up maintenance teams for its fleet of 787 Dreamliners following a series of technical problems that has seen the Scandinavian carrier repeatedly having to lease short-notice replacement aircraft.
AAR reported that during the second quarter of its fiscal 2014 it had sales of $540.7 million and net income of $20.0 million, compared with sales of $512.8 million and net income of $17.8 million in the same quarter of the prior year.
Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Co. (HAECO) has been appointed by Hongkong Jet to provide inventory technical management and airframe maintenance for Airbus A319 corporate jets (ACJ).
Ethiopian Airlines will provide technical support to RwandAir as from March, which includes line maintenance up to an A check and component exchange support for Boeing 737NGs and Bombardier Dash Q400s.
Industry is in a fever over 3-D printing, seeing the ability to build things layer by layer as the key to making innovative products more quickly and cheaply as well as bring manufacturing back from low-cost countries.
Ethiopian Airlines has graduated 52 Aviation Maintenance Technicians, 47 Marketing and 25 Finance trainees on December 26, 2103 at a graduation ceremony held at the airline's Headquarters.
