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
RUAG Australia Gets EASA Part 145 Nod
RUAG Australia has gained EASA Part 145 approval, allowing it to perform component MRO and line support for European-registered aircraft.
Maintenance and Modifications
Bombardier Launches Mobile Response Jet in Europe
The Challenger 300 will support an installed base of more than 700 aircraft in Europe and the Middle East.
Maintenance and Modifications
Atlas Air Service Wraps First Tamarack Install on CJ2+
The German MRO provider which operates Europe's largest Citation Service Center, was named Tamarack Winglet authorized center last year.
Maintenance and Modifications
Apex Aviation Expands Reach into Mexico with DGAC Nod
The company draws from a Las Vegas client base, but offers global mobile services that have reached as far as Australia and Siberia.
Maintenance and Modifications
Dassault Sets Dates for 2019 Falcon M&O Seminars
The French airframer's 2019 seminars will be held in eight cities in Europe, North and South America, and Asia.
Maintenance and Modifications
Clay Lacy Debuts New VNY MRO Facility
Open 24/7, the facillity which employs more than 70 technicians, can accommodate up to 15 large cabin aircraft.
Maintenance and Modifications
Hartzell Engine Technologies Expands Alabama HQ
When completed in summer 2019, the addtiional 10,000 sq ft will bring the complex to 86,000 sq ft.
Maintenance and Modifications
Gulfstream To Close Service Center in Brazil
“After considerable research and evaluation,” Gulfstream Aerospace is closing its service center at Bertram Luiz Leupolz Airport in Sorocaba, Brazil.
Maintenance and Modifications
Lufthansa Technik Earns Saudi Maintenance Nod
The company in cooperation with DC Aviation Al-Futtaim's Dubai facility has performed its first work on a Saudi-registered aircraft, an A-Check on an A320.
Maintenance and Modifications
Western Jet Turns 20, Expands Gulfstream Mx Services
Business aviation services company Western Jet Aviation has expanded its existing full-service Gulfstream maintenance capabilities to include the G650.
Maintenance and Modifications
Falcon Aviation Gets Saudi GACA Nod for UAE MROs
Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation has approved Falcon Aviation for business jet and regional aircraft maintenance at its bases in the UAE.
Maintenance and Modifications
OEMs, MROs Respond to Mobile Scheduled Mx Demand
Aircraft OEMs and MROs try to balance mobile service demands for AOG with light mx service requests.
Maintenance and Modifications
OEMs, MROs Respond to Mobile Scheduled Mx Demand
Aircraft OEMs and MROs try to balance mobile service demands for AOG with light maintenance service requests.
Maintenance and Modifications
Gulfstream Beefs Up European and Asia Support
Gulfstream boosted its customer support resources in Europe and Asia, adding maintenance hangar space at Paris-Le Bourget and more capabilities in Beijing.
Maintenance and Modifications
Jetworx Expands Mx Work, Facilities at VNY
The California-based maintenance provider has added more Embraer and Gulfstream models to its Part 145 certificate.
Aircraft
Pemco Launches Full Conversion Program for 737-700
Bahrain’s Texel Air plans to fly the first example of the Boeing narrowbody cargo mod.
Maintenance and Modifications
Duncan Steps Up Hiring with Recruitment Events
The February 1 open house drew 215 students and 10 were offered full-time employment.
Maintenance and Modifications
Metrojet Philippines Receives Qatar Approval
Qatar Civil Aviation Authority has named Metrojet Engineering Clark an approved maintenance organization.
FBOs
Heritage Aviation Achieves Benefit Corp. Status
Heritage Aviation has converted to a Vermont Benefit Corp., which requires it to consider social responsibility to employees, environment, and community.
Aircraft
Moscow Commits To Reviving Cubana Fleet
The Kremlin agrees to provide most of the funding to resuscitate Cuba’s airliners.
Maintenance and Modifications
Whelen Engineering Acquires LoPresti Aviation
Chester, Connecticut-based Whelen Engineering acquired LoPresti Aviation and spun off its aviation division to combine the aviation lighting companies into
Maintenance and Modifications
AAR Points To Prospects To Fill Labor Pipeline
An AAR report suggests looking to discouraged or underemployed workers, underrepresented groups, and students preferring a two-year path.
Maintenance and Modifications
Thailand Partners With Industry in MRO Training Pact
Airbus leads a group of four companies that aim to nearly double the country’s output of aviation technicians.
Maintenance and Modifications
Epps Designates Two PC-12 Satellite Support Centers
PrivateSky Aviation Services and St. Barth Executive will provide further support PC-12 support capacity in Florida and the Caribbean.
Aircraft
Global 7500 To Make Touchdown at PDK for Super Bowl
Bombardier Business Aircraft is using the Super Bowl in Atlanta to kick off a world tour of its flagship Global 7500.
Maintenance and Modifications
Private Equity Firm Levine Leichtman Buys AeroSafety
Levine Leichtman Capital has acquired AeroSafety, which services aircraft life vests, fire extinguishers, oxygen masks and cylinders, and life rafts.
FBOs
Signature’s TechnicAir Adds Mobile Service in Midwest
Signature TechnicAir has stationed new mobile service units at Chicago Midway International (MDW) and Minnesota’s Saint Paul Downto
Maintenance and Modifications
Daher Opens Base To Bolster TBM Support in Paris
The facility has U.S. FAA and EASA Part 145 approval.
Maintenance and Modifications
Former CRS Jet Spares Exec Launches New Company
North Carolina-based AOne Parts & Logistics will deal with both new and used aircraft parts.
Maintenance and Modifications
West Star Opens New Hangar at East Alton Location
West Star Aviation opened a 60,000-sq-ft hangar at its East Alton, Illinois facility, allowing it to expand existing business aircraft maintenance programs
