MTU Maintenance Hannover has won another customer, the German express cargo operator AeroLogic, for the maintenance of the GE90 engines. Under the exclusive contract, the company will be responsible for maintenance services of all GE90-110B engines powering AeroLogic’s Boeing 777F fleet including their owned spare engines. The long-term contract has a value of more than
Lufthansa Technik AERO Alzey (LTAA) celebrated the final test run after servicing the 1.000th turbofan engine of the General Electric (GE) CF34-series. The first engine of the CF34-series of the American manufacturer was serviced by LTAA already in 1991. Since then the engine type has become a backbone in the service portfolio of the company
Constant Aviation, a maintenance, repair, and overhaul facility, announced the opening of a new landing gear repair and overhaul facility at their Birmingham, AL location. The facility will begin servicing Beechjet 400A/XP landing gear and expand to include two other niche aircraft Embraer Legacy 600 and the Hawker 800A/XP in the coming months. Constant Aviation
Dassault Falcon signed an agreement with Indian charter operator Taj Air to establish a Dassault Falcon Authorized Line Service Station at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (VIDP) in Mumbai. The facility, which is already operational, will provide scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and inspections for all Falcon 2000 models. Initially, the facility will serve Indian registered Falcons
SR Technics, part of the Mubadala Aerospace MRO network, and Air Tahiti Nui have signed a contract for the completion of three cabin modifications on Airbus A340-300s. This will be carried out in parallel with C-Checks on the aircraft. The modification involves converting the existing three class cabin configuration to two classes, with the complete
StandardAero has signed an exclusive long-term service agreement with Brit Air to maintain their CF34-8C5A1 engines on their current and future fleet of Bombardier CRJ1000 regional jets, as well as their CF34-8C5B1 engines on a selected number of their Bombardier CRJ700s. Brit Air, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air France, is one of the largest European
ST Aerospace and AirAsia jointly announced that the companies have signed a 10-year agreement worth approximately US$80m (S$102m). The contract involves component repair management Maintenance-By-the-Hour (MBH) support for 75 of AirAsia’s Airbus A320 aircraft, and is expected to commence immediately. ST Aerospace is currently supporting AirAsia on an existing component repair management MBH programme for
Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation has been selected to install its APS3200 Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) on Nasair’s future purchased and leased Airbus A320 series aircraft and to retrofit Nasair’s nine current A320 aircraft fleet from the Honeywell 131-9A APU to the Hamilton Sundstrand APS3200 APU. Nasair also selected Hamilton Sundstrand for a long-term fixed price agreement
Alcoa has signed new multi-year supply agreements with Airbus for Alcoa’s leading aerospace aluminum sheet, plate and hard alloy extruded products utilizing Alcoa’s current, advanced-generation and aluminum lithium alloys. The agreements were signed at the Farnborough Air Show. Terms were not disclosed, but the agreements have a value of approximately $1.4bn over their life. Alcoa’s
Pratt & Whitney has signed a memorandum of understanding for an exclusive maintenance services agreement with Alba Star Airlines to provide engine overhaul services on the airline’s fleet of CFM56-3 engines. According to the memorandum of understanding, under the exclusive five-year agreement, Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners will provide engine overhaul services for up
