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.
Accidents
NTSB Raises Maintenance Issues in Nascar Crash
The NTSB determined that a July 2007 accident in Sanford, Fla., which killed the two aboard the airplane and three people on the ground, was caused by a se
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PAMA To Host Mx & Mgmt Symposium
The Professional Aviation Maintenance Association’s Aviation Maintenance & Management Symposium, to be held in Dallas/Fort Worth on March 6 and 7 at th
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Lufthansa Technik opens Hamburg engine overhall shop
Lufthansa Technik has invested nearly $67 million in its new 161,500-sq-ft overhaul center for engines in Hamburg.
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Global Jet Services offers maintenance e-learning
Maintenance technicians have a new way to accumulate training toward their Inspection Authorization (IA) and the FAA Awards Program.
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Oklahoma repair facility specializes in Falcons
Like a lot of young Americans in the late 1960s, Pete Cranick was introduced to aviation through the U.S.
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Transdigm acquires Aircraft Parts Corp
Aircraft Parts (APC) has been acquired from Unison Industries, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Electric’s GE Aviation, by TransDigm Group in a stock p
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New Hampshire company named Pilatus PC-12 service center
Pro-Star Aviation of Londonderry, N.H., has been designated a PC-12NG service center and sales rep.
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Aerospace Welding gets EASA OK
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has approved the Part 145 certification for Aerospace Welding Minneapolis.
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Business jet support coming to Shangai
Hawker Pacific and the Shanghai Airport Authority have broken ground on a planned business aviation facility at Shanghai’s Hongquiao Airport.
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Gulfstream London Luton authorized to service G150
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has approved Gulfstream’s London Luton Service Center to perform maintenance on EASA-registered Gulfstream G150s.
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Standardaero gets contract for fire supression MX
The Direction de la Défense et de la Sécurité Civile (DDSC) of Marseilles, France, has selected StandardAero to provide PW100 and PT6 engine maintenance se
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Hawker Beechcraft moves into Arizona facility
Hawker Beechcraft has moved into a new facility at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa, Ariz.
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Embraer receives approval for new U.S. distribution center
The Brazilian Civil Aviation Agency (Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil–ANAC) has certified a new Embraer U.S.
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BFB Aero Services and APA Services merge
BFB Aero Services will acquire all assets, business and obligations of APA Services as a result of the recently announced merger of the two companies.
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TBM Tech pubs available exclusively from ATP
nounced an exclusive agreement with EADS Socata to distribute TBM technical publications.
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Now is the time to eliminate distractions
The economy is tanking, airlines are folding or merging, jobs are vanishing in droves, your 401(k) is a shadow of its former self, looking forward to retir
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DOT OIG: FAA has Maintenence Problems
A DOT Office of Inspector General audit found that while the FAA is investing billions of dollars in new technology, it hasn’t kept up with facilities need
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Duncan Adds New Satellite Facility
Duncan Aviation has added a new satellite avionics facility at Hill Aircraft and Leasing at Atlanta Fulton County Airport.
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Dassault Expands Mx Facility at Le Bourget
Dassault Falcon Service has expanded its maintenance facility at Paris Le Bourget Airport.
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Tech Demand Remains High
Aviation jobs listing service JSFirm reported record postings for aviation professionals last year, with more than 4,000 company members, 60,000 individual
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Microturbo Completes First e-APU Test Run
Microturbo’s new auxiliary power unit, dubbed the e-APU, made its first run on a test bench in Toulouse, France, late in December.
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Duncan Aviation Adjusting to Drop in Demand
Reductions in flying hours and cancellations of new aircraft orders have prompted Duncan Aviat
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Ohio Adds All Mx Shops to Tax Exemption Status
The Ohio General Assembly has included an amendment to a recently enacted sales and use tax exe
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Eurocopter Planning Aberdeen Helo Service Center
Taking advantage of the busy oil and gas industry operations centered around Aberdeen, Scotlan
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Sabreliner Delivers 100th On-Time, On-Budget C-21A
Since Sabreliner performed the first C-21A Learjet Phase 16 inspection for the U.S.
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FAA Certifies S550 Modifications
The FAA has issued a Supplemental Type Certificate to Clifford Development for modification of Cessna Citation 550s and S550s with Williams International F
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AirCare Acquires Majestic Aerotech
AirCare Solutions Group, which provides emergency training, products and services to business aviation and airline operators, purchased Majestic Aerotech,
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AIG, Flying Boat Sue Grumman, Frakes for Mx Defects
Flying Boat, also known as Chalk’s Ocean Airways, and insurance giant AIG are suing Northrop Grumman and Frakes Aviation following the fatal crash of a Cha
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NTSB Judge Dismisses A&P/IA Emergency Revocation
The NTSB’s chief administrative law judge dismissed an FAA emergency order of revocation of a New Jersey A&P’s mechanic certificate, Inspection Authori
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New AW139 Engine Inlet Filter Near Certification
Aerospace Filtration Systems anticipates FAA supplemental type certification (STC) for its AgustaWestland AW139 inlet barrier filter (IBF) system in the ne
