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
PremiAir Moving to New Base in October
In October, PremiAir will move into a newly refurbished hangar at Oxford Airport near London.
Maintenance and Modifications
Ohio Repair Station Adds Class 4 Rating
Constant Aviation has become the first Ohio maintenance facility to receive an FAA Class 4 repair station rating.
Maintenance and Modifications
Economical, Environmentally Friendly Aircraft Disposal
What do you do with an airplane when you’re done flying it and no one wants to buy it? According to Aircraft End-of-Life Solutions (AELS) of Delft, Netherl
Maintenance and Modifications
M7 and San Antonio Aircraft Support Open Mod Center
M7 Aerospace and San Antonio Aircraft Support (SAAS) have launched a major modification center combining M7’s maintenance and engineering expertise with SA
Maintenance and Modifications
ExecuJet South Africa Moving Into New Facility
ExecuJet South Africa is adding maintenance services at its new FBO at Cape Town International Airport.
Cabin Interior and Electronics
BAE converts RJs for bizav
BAE Systems Regional Aircraft this year will deliver six more of its corporate-configured, four-engine Avro RJs for a variety of business and government op
Maintenance and Modifications
Simav improves carbon fiber recycling
French company Simav is developing a new thermal process, thermolysis, to recycle the carbon fiber contained in composite materials and claims that its pro
Maintenance and Modifications
Engine OEM mulls composite fan blades
UK-based Rolls-Royce and GKN Aerospace have established a joint venture to study the use of composite materials in fan blades.
Maintenance and Modifications
Lux sets sights on replacing nicad batteries with lithium
Lithium batteries, as used in cellphones, laptops and other electronic equipment, have been in the news recently, as airlines have severely limited their c
Maintenance and Modifications
Embraer’s First U.S. Bizjet Service Center Opens
Embraer held a grand opening ceremony for its first dedicated U.S.
Maintenance and Modifications
Goguen Moves to Greenwich AeroGroup
After 12 years at Dassault Falcon, Gerald Goguen has joined Greenwich AeroGroup as executive vice president.
Maintenance and Modifications
Heico Expands PMA Offerings Despite Slowdown
PMA parts manufacturer Heico reported it is on track to meet its 2008 earnings-per-share guidance.
Maintenance and Modifications
‘Red Hot’ Bizav Maintenance Market Set To Soar
Consulting firm AeroStrategy sees a huge bump in business aircraft maintenance needs by 2012, due mainly to large numbers of deliveries during recent years
Security
FAA Must Pay in Lost Case Against Corporate Pilots
The NTSB’s chief administrative law judge on September 3 ordered the FAA to pay $12,475 in attorney fees and expenses to two pilots, whom the Agency had ac
FBOs
Cutter Aviation Integrates Maintenance Operations
Historically the individual properties of the 80-year-old Cutter Aviation FBO chain have operated semi-autonomously under the guidance of local general man
Maintenance and Modifications
Jet Aviation Dusseldorf is now a Piaggio service center
Piaggio Aero has appointed Jet Aviation Dusseldorf an authorized service center for the Avanti/Avanti II turboprop twin.
Maintenance and Modifications
JetCorp completes Challenger 604 eight-year inspection
The 96-month inspection of a Challenger 604 gave JetCorp’s St.
Maintenance and Modifications
Ameco Beijing signs Lufthansa Technik service agreement
A two-year, worldwide logistic services agreement has been signed by Ameco Beijing and Lufthansa Technik Logistik (LTL).
Maintenance and Modifications
Metrojet gets Cayman
Metrojet’s MRO operation has obtained Cayman Islands Aircraft Maintenance Organization approval.
Maintenance and Modifications
StarPort named Honeywell 731 line maintenance service center
StarPortUSA, based at Orlando-Sanford International Airport, was recently named an authorized line maintenance service center for Honeywell Aerospace.
Maintenance and Modifications
Precision Aviation breaks ground on expansion project
Precision Aviation Group recently began work on expanding its Atlanta headquarters.
Maintenance and Modifications
Global Aviation designated Bombardier service provider
Bombardier Business Aircraft has authorized Global Aviation of Portland-Hillsboro Airport to be an aircraft on ground/line maintenance facility (AOG/LMF) i
Maintenance and Modifications
Threshold Aviation does major Citation 650 repair
Threshold Aviation Group of Chino, Calif., recently completed structural repairs to the rear belly skin and bulkhead of a Citation 650.
Maintenance and Modifications
Harbour Air becomes Eclipse Service Center
Eclipse Aviation has selected Vancouver-based Harbour Air to be the first Eclipse 500 authorized service center in North America.
Maintenance and Modifications
Qantas & Lufthansa Technik partner on joint MRO venture
Australia’s biggest airline, Qantas Airways, and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider Lufthansa Technik of Hamburg, Germany, have joined forces
Maintenance and Modifications
MRO Profile: Certified Aviation Services
Certified Aviation Services was founded in Santa Ana, Calif., in 1990 in response to airline demand for third-party line and ground support equipment maint
Regulations and Government
Torqued - Mechanics: brush up on mandated procedures
In the recent past I have written about the importance of mechanics following the procedures contained in the appropriate manuals for whatever task that ne
Maintenance and Modifications
Airctaft maintenance goes high-tech
To see where business jet maintenance is headed, just look at mechanics’ toolboxes.
Safety
Repeat Drug Testees Subject to ‘Direct Observation’
The FAA has revised drug and alcohol testing procedures, specifically requiring “direct observation” in all return-to-duty and follow-up drug tests.
Safety
ATSB Advises Operators To Check Oxygen Bottles
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has issued a safety advisory following the rapid depressurization of a Qantas Boeing 747-400 on July 25, urgi
