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
Report Says Mechanics Missing in Human Factors Efforts
In a report titled “An Overview of Human Factors in Aviation Maint
Training and Workforce
Fast Track A&P/Associate Degree Program Available
Future technicians can now take advantage of a combined FAA Airframe and Powerplant mechanic and associate degree program offered by St.
Maintenance and Modifications
AAR Landing Gear Services Resumes Full Operations
The FAA returned the repair station certificate that it suspended from AAR Landing Gear Services on February 10, and the AAR division immediately resumed w
Maintenance and Modifications
Constant Aviation Completes China-based Legacy Mod
Nextant Aviation subsidiary Constant Aviation finished a 41,000-foot modification and 48-month inspection on a China-based Embraer Legacy 600.
Airports
Despite Delay, Provo Pledges Funds for Duncan Facility
In an effort to attract aviation industry to the region, Provo, Utah, has agreed to spend $115,000 in site preparation costs at its municipal airport to he
Maintenance and Modifications
Sabreliner tactical VIP kits prove popular
Sabreliner’s “tactical VIP kits” are becoming a popular upgrade for the UH-60 Black Hawk.
Maintenance and Modifications
FAA, AAR Agree To Settle Landing-gear Issues
On February 10 the FAA issued an emergency order of suspension to AAR, suspending the repair station certificate held by AAR Landing Gear Services.
Maintenance and Modifications
AMAC Celebrates Grand Opening in Basel
AMAC Aerospace officially opened for business in early February at the EuroAirport in Basel, Switzerland.
Maintenance and Modifications
FAA Grants Certification to Freedom Aero Service
Freedom Aero Service, a new repair station opened by people who used to work for Weco Aerospace Systems in Lincoln, Calif., received FAA certification on J
Maintenance and Modifications
StandardAero Receives FAA and EASA Design Approvals
The FAA and EASA granted a major repair organization design authorization (MRA-ODA) to StandardAero’s Maryville, Tenn.
Maintenance and Modifications
New FAA Funding Act Addresses Foreign Repair Safety
The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2009 introduced on Monday by House Transportation Committee chairman James Oberstar (D-Minn.) and House aviation subcommitte
Maintenance and Modifications
Avatas Aerospace Acquires Prime Turbines
Dallas-based Avatas Aerospace, an FAA-approved repair station specializing in the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A, has acquired Hyannis, Mass.-based Prime
Maintenance and Modifications
New Cessna Service Center Opens in Mesa
While Cessna Aircraft is closing its Toledo, Ohio Citation service center at the end of next month, the company celebrated the opening of its new Mesa Cita
Maintenance and Modifications
Precision Aviation Expands With New Vancouver Shop
Rapid growth at Precision Aviation Group’s two Canadian subsidiaries prompted the addition of a new facility in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Maintenance and Modifications
Duncan Aviation Pushes Ahead with Provo Plans
By August next year, Duncan Aviation will have a new maintenance facility in Provo, Utah, in a 15,000-sq-ft hangar leased from Million Air Provo.
Maintenance and Modifications
Boekenkamp Moves to BBA Legacy Products Group
BBA Aviation is moving Gary Boekenkamp to its Legacy Products Group.
Maintenance and Modifications
Bombardier Adds Finland Line Maintenance Facility
For the 12th time in as many months Bombardier Aerospace has added a new line maintenance facility (LMF), most recently in Finland.
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
Maintenance and Modifications
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
Maintenance and Modifications
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.
Maintenance and Modifications
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.
Maintenance and Modifications
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.
Maintenance and Modifications
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
Maintenance and Modifications
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.
Maintenance and Modifications
Aerospace Welding gets EASA OK
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has approved the Part 145 certification for Aerospace Welding Minneapolis.
Maintenance and Modifications
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.
Maintenance and Modifications
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.
Maintenance and Modifications
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
Maintenance and Modifications
Hawker Beechcraft moves into Arizona facility
Hawker Beechcraft has moved into a new facility at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa, Ariz.
Maintenance and Modifications
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.
