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
AEA Balks At FAA’s SMS Proposal
The Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) submitted comments to the F
Maintenance and Modifications
Premier Aircraft 50Dash4 Falcon EASA Certified
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has certified Premier Aircraft’s 50Dash4 upgrade of the Falcon 50.
Maintenance and Modifications
CRS Expands Green Programs
Aviation parts supplier CRS Jet Spares announced plans to expand green initiatives aimed at reducing the environmental impact of its operations.
Maintenance and Modifications
Vector Aerospace OK’d for Arriel 2 Repair and Overhaul
Vector Aerospace has received Turbomeca’s approval to repair and overhaul civil Arriel 2 engines in North America.
Maintenance and Modifications
MAAS To Operate Fokker Aircraft Services Paint Shop
Fokker Aircraft Services has signed an agreement with Maastricht Aviation Aircraft Services (MAAS) to operate the Fokker paint hangar maintenance facility
Maintenance and Modifications
JSSI reflects on its 20 years
JSSI, the hourly-cost airframe and engine maintenance provider, is marking 20 years since its founding and 20 years displaying at the NBAA Conventions.
Maintenance and Modifications
Crane System Holds Up to the Pressure
Crane Aerospace and Electronics (Booth No.
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Savannah Air Center Refurbs Completion Center
Savannah Air Center (Booth No.
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MU-2 Refurb Has Glass Cockpit
Intercontinental Jet Services is in the process of certifying a Sagem glass cockpit as part of the Limited Edition (LE) refurbishment package for the Mits
Maintenance and Modifications
Banyan Now Offers Major Falcon Inspections
To provide Falcon operators throughout the southeastern U.S., Caribbean and South America with the highest level of service and convenience, Fort Lauderdal
Maintenance and Modifications
Stevens Adds Learjet 60 to Lear4Ever Line
Stevens Aviation yesterday at the NBAA Convention introduced the newest addition to its Lear4Ever line: the Lear 60 Business Liner.
Maintenance and Modifications
Nextant Beechjet Pro Line 21 Upgrade STC’d
Nextant Aerospace announced today at the NBAA Convention that it has received STC approval for its Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 flight deck retrofit for Be
Maintenance and Modifications
Whistleblower Uncovers Woodward MPC Fraud
Aerospace contractor MPC International has agreed to pay $22.5 million to the federal government to resolve procurement fraud allegations that the company
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Maximum Manuals Offers Same-day MEL
Maximum Manuals has launched an Internet-based minimum equipment list (MEL) generator that provides same-day MELs customized to the individual client and a
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Falcon Transitioning To E-Maintenance Program
Dassault Falcon recently completed testing of its new Falcon E-Maintenance program, which will allow Dassault’s Falcon technical center and service centers
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Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services Opens
Boeing, Shanghai Airport Authority and Shanghai Airlines have opened a new two-bay hangar at their joint venture, Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services.
Maintenance and Modifications
Elliptical Winglet STC for Citation X
Winglet Technology and Cessna Aircraft have begun installing elliptical wingl
Aircraft
Duncan ready for service at JSSI
Customers of JSSI’s hourly-cost maintenance services can now have work done at Duncan Aviation facilities on favorable terms through a new agreement betwee
Aircraft
API bucks downturn supplying spare parts
While others in the aviation industry were hunkering down for a terrible year in 2009, Aerospace Products International (API) added to its portfolio by dev
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Hush kits for GII/III resurrected as QS3
Hubbard Aviation Technologies of St.
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Web ops-tracking service adds inventory module
SkyBooks, a unit of Textron, is adding an integrated inventory tracking module to its maintenance-tracking and operations management service.
Maintenance and Modifications
Hartzell Offers Top Prop Conversions for Cessna 206
Hartzell Propeller’s new Top Prop three-blade propeller upgrade kit for the Cessna 206 is now available.
Maintenance and Modifications
Learjet 60 aft locker flies into final design stage
Raisbeck Engineering of Seattle, Wash.
Cabin Interior and Electronics
Flying Colours boosts capacity with JetCorp buy
Two competitors with separate programs that convert Bombardier CRJs into executive jets combined forces in March, when Peterborough, Ontario-based Flying C
Maintenance and Modifications
Concorde Battery STC’d for challenger
Bombardier Challenger 300 operators now have a choice of replacing the jet’s original nickel-cadmium main ship battery with a new Concorde RG-441 lead-acid
