Maintenance and Modifications
News and issues about aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), covering all segments of the aviation industry; and modifications for aircraft and engines. Subjects include product support of aircraft, engines and avionics, MRO company mergers, acquisitions, announcements and personnel, Airworthiness Directives, Supplemental Type Certificate approvals and other topics.
Maintenance and Modifications
Jet Aviation Changes MRO Leadership in EMEA and Asia
Jet Aviation has made several key personnel changes.
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West Star Offers Maintenance on Spirit of St. Louis
West Star Aviation has partnered with Tac Air to provide services on Spirit of St.
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CAE To Add Fifth Training Facility in India
CAE Flight Training (India) and InterGlobe Enterprises of India are forming a joint-venture training center to provide pilot and maintenance training in In
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ST Aerospace Named Independent TrueEngine MRO Shop
ST Aerospace has become a TruEngine service provider and claims to be the first independent MRO shop to earn that distinction.
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Emirates Opens Engine Facility in Dubai
Emirates Airline has announced it will open an engine overhaul shop slated to complement its test cell in Dubai.
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OEMs Attack FAA-approved PMA Parts in Data Licenses
Operators that subscribe to Goodrich-Messier publications must sign an agreement that precludes the use of FAA-approved wheel and brake parts manufactured
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Industry Mourns the Loss of Bombardier’s James Hoblyn
James Hoblyn, president of Bombardier customer services and specialized and amphibious aircraft, died while jogging on Sunday, July 3.
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Dynamic Aviation Adds 50 Employees
Dynamic Aviation wants to fill 50 new positions to support its expanding commercial and government business sector requirements.
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Indian MROs form association
Some of India’s leading MROs have joined forces to promote the nation’s growing aerospace MRO sector.
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Hawker Beech Services Returning to Northeast U.S.
After years with no factory-owned service center in the Northeast U.S., Hawker Beechcraft (HBC) has finalized an agreement to open a facility at New Castle
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Loss of Bombardier's Product Support Chief Leaves Void
James Hoblyn, who has been behind Bombardier Aerospace’s recent push to bolster its worldwide business aircraft product support, died while running on Sund
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Goodrich-Messier License Bars Use of FAA-approved Parts
Operators that subscribe to Goodrich-Messier publications must sign an agreement that precludes the use of FAA-approved wheel and brake parts manufactured
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ARSA Chides FAA’s Definition of Duty and Rest Rules
The Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) has submitted a letter to
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Eurocopter Establishes Kazakhstan Engineering Facility
Eurocopter and Kazakhstan Engineering have signed an agreement formalizing a joint venture to assemble and customize Eurocopter EC145s at a new facility in
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CAE and AirAsia partner on training center
CAE and AirAsia have expanded a prior partnership into a joint venture to provide training for maintenance engineers, technicians, pilots, cabin crew and g
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Sikorsky and Ruag To Open Swiss Service Center
Sikorsky Aerospace Services (SAS) has named Ruag Aviation’s Alpnach helicopter facility in Switzerland an authorized customer service center (CSC) to suppo
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Gulfstream Increases Capacity at Dallas Site
Gulfstream Aerospace is reopening the 62,000-sq-ft Hangar F at Dallas Love Field.
Engines
RFID Provider Opens U.S. Subsidiary To Support A350 Suppliers
The French company chosen to provide radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags for the first major application on “flyable” aircraft components–the Airbus
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Redesigned Eclipse PhostrEx Canisters Get FAA Nod
Eclipse Aerospace received FAA approval for its newly redesigned PhostrEx fire-suppression system canister on the Eclipse 500.
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Cessna Expands European Customer Service
Textron sister companies Bell Helicopter and Cessna Aircraft have broken ground on a new facility dedicated to customers in the Asia-Pacific region.
“We wi
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FAA Certifies Mid-Continent Instruments West
Bombardier Aerospace has added four field service representatives and two customer support account managers to cover Europe and South Africa.
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Business Jet Access Opens New Facility
Gulfstream Aerospace has added two European warehouses to its growing product-support network, increasing parts and materials on the continent to approxima
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MRO Profile: Jet Works Air Center
Jet Works Air Center is the product of the merger of Jet Works Aviation and Denton Business Air Center, combining the former’s avionics repair capabilities
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Chromalloy Nevada Reduces Workforce
West Star Aviation recently installed the first Rockwell Collins Pro Line 4 to Pro Line 21 upgrade on the Falcon 2000.
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NVision Offers Product Defect Analysis
NVision, manufacturer of a non-contact measurement and scanning systems, touts its products as valuable in identifying parts variances and settling legal d
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Russia, China Acquire $17M in Engine Test Equipment
Hudson, Mass.-based Test Devices has sold approximately $17 million worth of jet engine test equipment to Russia and China.
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NRC To Explore Future Cabin Environment Technology
The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has launched an initiative called Aircraft Cabin Environment Technologies (ACET) to develop, apply and evalua
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Eurocopter Opens Logistics Center
Eurocopter has opened a new global logistics facility in Les Florides industrial park near its production plant in Marignane in the south of France.
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Lufthansa Technik Building Maintenance Hangar in Berlin
Lufthansa Technik has begun construction of a new maintenance hangar at the future Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER).
