The first Boeing 787 Dreamliner to undergo change incorporation work in San Antonio, Texas, returned to Everett on Nov. 13th. The airplane completed an eight month change incorporation program and will now go through final preparations in Everett before delivery to Japan Airlines (JAL). During change incorporation, airplanes that are not part of flight test are
Goodrich Corporation has signed two significant support agreements with Emirates. The first is a General Terms Agreement (GTA) which provides the framework for all future maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) agreements between Emirates and Goodrich. The second represents the first application of this GTA. Under the 10-year Specific Business Agreement, Goodrich will deliver comprehensive overhaul and
flydubai, Dubai ‘s pioneering low cost airline, has signed a maintenance cost agreement with Honeywell, worth more than $20m, to provide maintenance support for the carrier’s auxiliary power units (APUs) installed on its growing fleet of Boeing 737-800NG passenger aircraft. The ten-year contract provides flydubai with a stable, predictable maintenance structure that reduces costs associated with
Lufthansa Technik and NAS-Holding of Saudi Arabia are expanding their cooperation. Lufthansa Technik already provides component and engine services for NAS fleet and support for the new technical subsidiary NAS-Tech. Now the two partners will join forces in offering technical services for customers in Saudi Arabia. Customers in Saudi Arabia will be addressed and served
Air China has finalized its agreement to purchase 20 GEnx-2B engines to power its five Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental aircraft and has also signed a 15-year OnPoint solution agreement for the maintenance, repair and overhaul of its GEnx-2B engines.
On 10 November 2011, Robinson Helicopter delivered R44 S/N 13217, the company’s 10,000th helicopter to come off its production line. The keys to the 10,000th helicopter were presented to Robinson’s Brazilian dealer, Audi Helicopters. Audi has been a Robinson dealer for 25 years and is one of two Robinson dealers in Brazil. Foreign orders have
Cathay Pacific Airways has signed a 15-year OnPoint solution agreement with GE Aviation that covers the maintenance, repair and overhaul of the GE90-115B engine fleet for four Boeing 777-300ER aircraft and eight 777-200 Freighters ordered in August along with the 10 Boeing 777-300ER aircraft ordered in March. The OnPoint solution agreement means that GE Aviation
Rolls-Royce has won an order from Saudi Arabian Airlines, worth up to $500m, to provide engines and TotalCare support for four Airbus A330 aircraft already announced and four options. These aircraft, which are due to enter service from 2013, will be in addition to Saudi Arabian Airlines’ existing fleet of eight Trent 700 powered Airbus
SR Technics and Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT), both part of Mubadala Aerospace’s global Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) network, have signed a contract with Airbus for the implementation of the Airbus Managed Inventory (AMI) service at the Dubai Airshow. The implementation of AMI – an automated inventory management system – will ensure the replenishment
Lufthansa Technik, one of the MRO leaders in the Middle East, is expanding its activities in this important and strongly growing aviation market even further with a new company headquartered in Dubai – Lufthansa Technik Middle East Services (LTMES). The new business will bundle all the Middle East sales and service activities currently pursued by a variety
