Maintenance & Training

MRO News

Scandinavian low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle has confirmed reports it has summoned Boeing management representatives to Oslo later this week to address reliability issues that have dogged the carrier’s two new Boeing 787 Dreamliners.

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Briefs from the Sept. 18, 2013 issue of ATW’s MRO Digest

AAR’s New York facility has installed an Avtron Aerospace Hydraulic Component Test System, which is capable of evaluating a wide range of hydraulic products installed on next-generation aircraft.

MRO provider MTU Aero Engines Maintenance and Japanese trader Sumitomo have created two joint venture companies.

Mexico’s QET Tech Aerospace (QTA) has signed a contract with Transportes Aereo Regionales (TAR) to perform all the airline’s maintenance.

ATR and Caribbean regional carrier Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT) have signed a 10-year global maintenance agreement for the airline's four new ATR 42-600s and four new ATR 72-600s.

Spain’s Industria de Turbo Propulsores (ITP) has signed an extension of its existing agreement with Pratt & Whitney for design, manufacturing and maintenance work for the PurePower engine family.

Briefs from the Sept. 11, 2013 issue of ATW’s MRO Digest

Pratt & Whitney has signed an exclusive eight-year maintenance services agreement with Transaero Airlines to provide engine overhauls on 11 PW4000-112s.

FL Technics is extending its engine management services with a new CF34-3 engine-support package.

AAR has entered into a general terms agreement with Liebherr-Aerospace to provide landing-gear maintenance, repair and overhaul services for Embraer E-170s, E-175s, E-190s and E-195s.

The Carlyle Group’s portfolio company Dynamic Precision Group will acquire eight aerospace component-fabrication and machining facilities from Unison Engine Components, a subsidiary of GE Aviation.

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Negotiations toward a “potential combination” between UK-based BBA Aviation and “certain parts” of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) have collapsed without a deal.

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Briefs from the Sept. 4, 2013 issue of ATW’s MRO Digest

SR Technics and Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT), both members of the Mubadala Aerospace MRO network, have signed a long-term general terms agreement with Moog, which makes precision-control components.

HEICO’s net income increased 25% to a record $28.9 million, or 54 cents per diluted share, for the third quarter of fiscal 2013, up from $23.1 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2012.

Airbus and Russia’s S7 Engineering, part of Engineering Holding, will develop a long-term maintenance partnership in Russia and the CIS.

Enigma has been acquired by PTC.

KLM Cityhopper and Fokker Services will replace seats on the airline’s Fokker 70s with Acro Ultra seats from Acro Aircraft Seating.

Eastern Siberia’s Alrosa has chosen Lufthansa Technik to provide total component support for the four Boeing 737NGs that are replacing Alrosa’s Tupolev Ru-154s.

Indonesia’s Lion Group, parent company of Lion Air, is building MRO facility on Indonesia’s Batam Island.