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
CGTM Develops Air Filter for Eurocopter AS 350
Turbomeca’s subsidiary CGTM, known primarily as the engine manufacturer’s flight-test center, plans to offer a new air filter for the Eurocopter AS 350 Ecu
Maintenance and Modifications
Nevada company extends PT6 life
If the idea of extending your PT6 overhaul period from 3,600 to 8,000 hours is appealing, Wood Group Turbopower can do it for you.
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Raytheon slashes parts costs
Rapid (Raytheon Aircraft parts inventory and distribution) has launched the largest parts price-reduction campaign in the company’s history.
Maintenance and Modifications
Hawker Pacific adds 800 gear overhaul
Hawker Pacific Aerospace is expanding its service to respond to a Raytheon maintenance communiqué regarding a Hawker 800 landing gear requirement.
Maintenance and Modifications
Duncan Battle Creek is Learjet facility
Bombardier Aerospace has named Duncan Aviation’s Battle Creek operation a Learjet authorized service facility (ASF).
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RAS Toluca is now Part 145 certified
Raytheon Aircraft Services Toluca, Mexico, is now FAA-certified as a Part 145 repair station.
Maintenance and Modifications
Premier Aircraft boosts Falcon 50
Premier Aircraft of East Alton, Ill., has entered an agreement with Honeywell Aerospace to upgrade the existing TFE731-3-1C and TFE731-3D-1C engines instal
Maintenance and Modifications
Innotech gets company service awards
Raytheon Aircraft has awarded Montreal’s Innotech Aviation Gold Bar status for service center excellence for Hawkers and King Airs.
Maintenance and Modifications
PAMA to offer web-based career resource
The Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA) and Jet Professionals, an aviation staffing company, have entered into a joint venture to provide
Maintenance and Modifications
Eagle Creek opens Learjet Center
Eagle Creek Aviation Services (ECAS) is opening a Learjet Service Center at Eagle Creek Airport (EYE) in Indianapolis.
Maintenance and Modifications
Bombardier expands 24/7 service network
Bombardier Aerospace has expanded its U.S.
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Avtrak to power Raytheon program
Raytheon Aircraft has chosen Avtrak to provide aircraft maintenance and compliance tracking technology for its Web-based factory aircraft comprehensive tra
Maintenance and Modifications
Profile: A maintenance option for the single aircraft owner
Many operators consider maintenance to be a necessary evil, but a Kennesaw, Ga., company turns that notion on its ear.
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Maintenance and Modifications
Flight Environments Survives Act of Nature
While completion and refurbishment centers in Florida were cleaning up in the wake of a succession of late-summer and fall hurricanes, cabin thermal/acoust
Maintenance and Modifications
Aerospace Concepts Exceeds Last Year’s Forecast
Aerospace Concepts, a Toronto-based completions management specialist with a long record of performing Bombardier Global Express and Challenger interior wo
Maintenance and Modifications
Bombardier Moves Out, Indianapolis Jet Center Moves In
Bombardier’s repair facilities at Indianapolis International Airport are now the Indianapolis Jet Center.
Maintenance and Modifications
DunnAir To Open at Former Bombardier Tucson Site
According to its founder, start-up completion and refurbishment center DunnAir Business Jet Completion Center will open its doors in February.
Maintenance and Modifications
Brazilian company opens new bizav maintenance facility
One year after beginning construction at its new maintenance facility, Táxi Aéreo Marília (TAM) has begun operations at its Jundiaí center, which will allo
Maintenance and Modifications
Jet Aviation announces JetResponse service
Jet Aviation has announced a new AOG support service called Jet-Response.
Maintenance and Modifications
3M Aerospace Introduces Wire Tester
At NBAA’04 last month 3M Aerospace introduced the 900AST (advance systems tester), a handheld unit used for checking for faults in avionics wiring.
Maintenance and Modifications
BLR King Air Winglets Flying Off the Shelf
Everett, Wash.-based BLR Aerospace late last week received two record-breaking sales for its King Air winglet systems from Elliott Aviation and Cutter Avia
Maintenance and Modifications
Dallas Airmotive Expanding Turbine Maintenance Network
BBA Aviation-owned engine repair and overhaul company Dallas Airmotive plans to open a regional turbine center next month at the Washington County Airport
Maintenance and Modifications
Hush-kit Rivals in Shouting Match
Stage III Technologies, which is still working to obtain certification of its thrust reverser for the Gulfstream II and III, claims that its Stage 3 hush k
Maintenance and Modifications
Safe Flight AOA Integrated into Challenger Retrofit
Safe Flight Instrument last month announced it has gained approval for a low-airspeed awareness (LAA) display as part of the angle-of-attack (AOA) computer
Maintenance and Modifications
Dallas airmotive closing New Jersey facility
Dallas Airmotive’s late-September announcement that it would be closing its Millville, N.J.
Aircraft
Eight Days Gives Beechjet 400As a New Interior
Thanks to Raytheon Aircraft Services’ new quick-change interior program, owners of the Beechjet 400A (S/N 110 and later) can get a new cabin makeover fairl
Aircraft
Hush Kit Reduces Cabin Noise in Premier I
Raytheon Aircraft announced a lightweight interior modification for its Premier I that the company says reduces cabin average noise level to 82.2 dBA on ta
