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
Repkon To Demo Manufacturing Capabilities at Paris
Decades of experience and development has left Repkon with a broad range of precision metal-working capabilities.
Aircraft
Maintenance Ops Face Unsung Effect From Max Grounding
While airlines need to perform certain upkeep on grounded airplanes such as the 737 Max, their maintenance schedules become out of sync.
Maintenance and Modifications
Constant Aviation Receives Brazilian Mx Nod
The MRO provider's network of maintenance facilities spread across the U.S. now has approval to work on Brazilian-registered aircraft.
Maintenance and Modifications
ASI Names Mexican Distributor
Mexico City-based Aerospares Services will be ASI's exclusive sales representative south of the border.
Maintenance and Modifications
Tamarack Looks Toward New Product Lines as Company Shuffles Leadership
The company eyes additional Atlas winglet applications as work continues to resolve FAA, EASA airworthiness directives.
Maintenance and Modifications
AAR Receiving Strong OEM Interest in Parts-supply Services
Data-analytics insights on parts usage by airlines are attracting OEMs to AAR’s new parts-distribution capabilities.
Aircraft
Bedek Restructures as P2F Business Booms
Bedek formed a new Aviation Group as the company eyes freight conversions of other types, such as the A380.
Maintenance and Modifications
Bombardier Expands Mx to California with New ASF
San Luis Obispo-based ACI Jet is now authorized to service Bombardier Globals and Challengers.
Aircraft
Mitsubishi MU-2 Operators Warned of Wing Spacer Cracks
FAA is urging MU-2 operators to perform a fluorescent penetrant inspection of the wing spacer plates for cracks and replace any cracked wing spacer plates.
Maintenance and Modifications
Textron Aviation Gives Thumbs Up to Traxxall Mx Tracker
Under the recognition, customers of factory-delivered Cessna and Beechcraft aircraft will have the option of a free year of Traxxall Mx tracking.
Maintenance and Modifications
Citing ADs' Effects, Tamarack Aero Files for Bankruptcy
Tamarack Aerospace said 73 percent of CJs fitted with active winglets have received free upgrades that Tamarack expects will resolve the EASA and FAA ADs.
Maintenance and Modifications
Metro Aviation Earns EASA Mx Approval
The Shreveport, Louisiana-based company is an Airbus Helicopter approved service center, specialzing in the EC-135 and 145 models.
Maintenance and Modifications
Gemini Adds Aircraft, Avionics to MRO Approvals
The Scottsdale, Arizona-based company also is expanding its technician team as it works to support customer's ADS-B Out requirements.
Maintenance and Modifications
Constant Completes 15th Challenger 300 Mid-life Check
Aviation has completed its fifteenth 7,500-cycle inspection event on a Bombardier Challenger 300; only 18 such inspections have been completed to date.
Maintenance and Modifications
Skeyos Unveils One-stop-shop for Aircraft Parts
Skeyos Marketplace allows MRO purchasers to compare 140,000 new and used aircraft parts and related services.
Maintenance and Modifications
Clay Lacy's OXC Site Gets Part 145 Approval
he approval gives Clay Lacy its third FAA Part 145 repair station, joining others at Van Nuys and McClellan-Palomar Airports, both in California.
Avionics
JetSupport Tapped for First Euro G5000 Excel Upgrade
The Amsterdam-based MRO will offer the Garmin upgrade, which is expected to enter service in early summer.
Maintenance and Modifications
West Star Expands ODA Privileges
Under West Star's ODA, the newest privileges enable all four of its main locations to complete projects without submittal of a PNL letter.
Maintenance and Modifications
EASA Calls for AS350/EC130 Fuel System Mods
EASA is recommending, but not mandating, that operators of Airbus AS350/EC130 helicopters install crash-resistant fuel systems.
Aircraft
C3 Aerospace Soon To Begin Its First A320 Freighter Conversion
C Cubed plans to induct its first A320 for freighter conversion in about a month, according to IBA Group.
Maintenance and Modifications
FAA Grounds Tamarack Atlas-equipped CJs
Tamarack maintains that two previously issued service bulletins remedy control issues in Citations equipped with active load-alleviating winglets.
Maintenance and Modifications
Falcon Aviation Sees Steady Growth in 2019
Falcon Aviation's steady growth should continue as it expands locations and services offered.
Avionics
Universal Avionics Tapped for Falcon 900B Retrofit
Dassault Falcon upgrade will make it compliant with various avionics/ATC mandates.
Maintenance and Modifications
Duncan's New Provo Paint Shop Completes First Aircraft
The complicated new scheme on the Bombardier Global 5000 took the highly-trained Duncan team less than a month to complete.
Cabin Interior and Electronics
AMAC Unveils Hangar 5 Plan
10-year-old company now has four hangars at Basel and says it is busier than ever, so is adding a fifth hangar in partnership with Bombardier.
Aircraft
Bombardier and F/List Team on London Interiors Shop
Repair and refurbishment capability coming to Canadian airframer's Biggin Hill service center
Cabin Interior and Electronics
FAI Celebrates Three Decades of Bizjet Ops
Best-known as an air ambulance operator, FAI offers extensive business aviation services
Maintenance and Modifications
StandardAero Reaches 1,500 PT6 Milestone in Gonesse
The Gonesse facility achieved the milestone nearly 45 years after processing its first engine in 1975.
Maintenance and Modifications
Textron Aviation Recommends Flightdocs
Flightdocs and Textron Aviation are offering a free year of service to buyers of factory-new and preowned business aircraft.
Maintenance and Modifications
Dassault Academy Marks 1,000th Training Course Graduate
The academy was founded in 2013 and offers a range of training options from two locations in France.
