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.
Regulations and Government
FAA updates part 135 maintenance requirements
The FAA has issued Handbook Bulletin HBAW 04-06E in an attempt to clarify issues surrounding maintenance requirements under FAR Part 135.
Maintenance and Modifications
Dallas Airmotive opens new warehouse
Dallas Airmotive is opening a new 22,600-sq-ft warehouse at its Forest Park turbine engine repair and overhaul facility in Dallas.
Maintenance and Modifications
MRO Profile: West Coast Maintenance
West Coast Maintenance, a division of West Coast Charters, recently opened a repair station in a newly built 30,000-sq-ft hangar on Daugherty Field in Long
Maintenance and Modifications
A new role for the aircraft maintainer
As the aviation industry recovers from the events of 9/11, all of the service providers await the return of better economic times.
Maintenance and Modifications
Bombardier Bolstering Parts Supply
Bombardier is looking to boost its parts distribution performance with the opening of two new “super warehouses.” A new facility opened at Chicago O’Hare I
Maintenance and Modifications
Private Jet Mech Makes House Calls
Tampa, Fla.-based Private Jet Mech’s 24-hour, on-call maintenance service for business jet operators is nowcapable of dispatching to more than 100 U.S.
Aircraft
Buying an airplane is one thing; living with one is quite another
Over the past several years, owners and manufacturers have begun to recognize aircraft product support as an increasingly vital function.
Maintenance and Modifications
Jet Aviation reports robust growth at Singapore facility
Anyone who has studied the market for business aviation seriously in Asia accepts that its potential will take time to come to fruition, but that when it h
Charter & Fractional
Omni’s new services include executive charter and handling
Portuguese air transport and maintenance group Omni is seeking to raise its stature as a business aviation services group by revitalizing its executive cha
Aircraft
ExecuJet Aviation extends its reach with Grob SPn program
ExecuJet Aviation Group has successfully pursued its ambitions of becoming a truly global business aviation services group while maintaining a relatively l
Maintenance and Modifications
Russia Approves Bombradier Berlin Service Center
Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services (LBAS) has received approval from the Federal Civil Aviation Authority of Russia (FCAAR) to perform line and base ma
Maintenance and Modifications
Whelen Marketing LED Anti-collision lights STC
Whelen Engineering has received STC approval for its Model 70900 Series LED anti-collision beacon, the first of its kind to be approved for general aviatio
Maintenance and Modifications
Conklin & De Decker Releases MxManager 7.5
Conklin & de Decker has released the latest version of its maintenance management software, MxManager Version 7.5.
The company has upgraded
The company has upgraded
Aircraft
Bombardier Fault Isolation Tool Available For Learjet 60
Learjet 60 operators are the latest to benefit from the Learjet Electronic Technician (e-Tech) troubleshooting tool.
Maintenance and Modifications
Arinc Scottsdale Facility Gets Repair Station Certification
The FAA has recently awarded a repair station certificate to Arinc Direct’s Scottsdale Airport facility in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Maintenance and Modifications
MRO Profile: DAS Wilmington
“Lindbergh flew off our ramp right out front,” John Rahilly, vice president of sales and marketing for Dassault Aircraft Services (DAS) Wilmington, Del., t
Maintenance and Modifications
Sale of Jet Aviation marks end of an era
On August 11 European private equity group Permira said it would buy a majority stake in Zurich, Switzerland-based aviation services company Jet Aviation f
FBOs
Jet Aviation Expands Services
Jet Aviation’s FBO at London Biggin Hill Airport is now providing fuel, and its facility at Dubai International Airport now includes in-house customs clear
Maintenance and Modifications
Honeywell Revamping Product Support
As part of an effort to consolidate its engine, avionics and brake and wheel divisions with the aim of improving product support and customer service, Hone
Aircraft
Williams-powered Citation Conversion Gets STC
Citation modification specialist Sierra Industries of Uvalde, Texas, last month received an STC for its Stallion conversion, a Citation 500/501 powered by
Maintenance and Modifications
Johannesburg’s The Jet Centre expands its support facilities
South Africa’s National Airways is opening a new maintenance operation for business jets at Johannesburg Lanseria Airport.
Maintenance and Modifications
Africa Gets New Pilatus Service Center
Swiss manufacturer Pilatus has appointed a new factory-authorized sales and service center for the PC-12 turboprop single in southern Africa.
Maintenance and Modifications
M7 Aerospace Provides Merlin Update Program
M7 Aerospace has announced an “M7 Merlin” program through which it will extensively refurbish an executive Fairchild Merlin in the same San Antonio 426,000
Maintenance and Modifications
Jet Aviation Dubai Becomes Rockwell Collins Dealer
Rockwell Collins has appointed Jet Aviation Dubai an authorized dealer, allowing the facility to carry out sales, installations and retrofits of Rockwell C
Maintenance and Modifications
ExpressJet To Offer Thrust Reverser Maintenance
Aircelle has expanded its global maintenance network into the U.S.
Maintenance and Modifications
Gulfstream Flap Asymmetry Tester Available
AirMech Innovations (AMI) announces the development of the AMI Model 104 flap asymmetry tester designed specifically for use with the Gulfstream II, III an
Maintenance and Modifications
Jet Aviation Dallas Open 24/7 For Maintenance
Jet Aviation Dallas is now providing around-the-clock maintenance support seven days a week.
Maintenance and Modifications
Sikorsky Selects Globalnet For Maintenance Tracking
Helotrac II, Sikorsky’s next-generation Web-based customer aircraft maintenance tracking program, will use Avtrak GlobalNet maintenance management technolo
Maintenance and Modifications
GlobalNet to track maintenance for NetJets
Avtrak also announced that NetJets has signed a five-year agreement for GlobalNet for the tracking and management of NetJets’ growing worldwide fleet of fr
Maintenance and Modifications
ARSA Tells Senate Aviation Panel 'Safety Is Good Business'
Christian Klein, legislative counsel for the Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA), recently testified before the aviation subcommittee of the Sen
