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
Maintenance News: Midcoast to perform 50DASH4 performance upgrades
Falcon 50 operators will now be able to take their aircraft to Midcoast Aviation, on St.
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Maintenance News: Online mechanic forum launched
Jet Repair Anywhere has announced the availability of its free online mechanics interactive Web-based forum.
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Maintenance News: General Dynamics Aviation Services expands Dallas center
In a project that adds more than 45,000 sq ft to its Love Field facility, General Dynamics Aviation Services is expanding its Dallas Service Center by leas
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MRO Profile: Abilene Aero
Texas FBO Abilene Aero is doing better than it ever has in its 40-year history, according to president Joe Crawford.
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Maintenance News: Avmats celebrates 30 years in aviation
Avmats marked its 30th anniversary on April 29 with a gathering for customers in Kansas City, Mo.
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Maintenance News: Dallas Airmotive adds 16 engines, beefs up
BBA Aviation’s engine repair and overhaul division has added 16 new engine models to its existing authorizations on Pratt & Whitney Canada engines.
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Maintenance News: Hawker Beechcraft to open new facility in Mesa, Arizona
Mesa, Ariz., will be the site of a new Hawker Beechcraft Services aircraft
maintenance and service facility.
maintenance and service facility.
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Maintenance News: Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services recruiting
Business is up and Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services (LBAS) is looking for qualified people to join its technical support teams for executive jets at
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Maintenance News: PremiAir also looking for techs
PremiAir is searching for qualified fixed-wing maintenance personnel for its new base at Oxford Airport, UK.
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Maintenance News: Banyan celebrates national maintenance technician day
Banyan celebrated its third annual AMT Day (May 24) by honoring its maintenance and avionics technicians.
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Maintenance News: CAMO Plus certification awarded to Jet Aviation
Jet Aviation’s aircraft management and charter division for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia was awarded the EASA Continuing Airworthiness Manageme
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Maintenance News: Eurocopter acquires Motorflug Baden-Baden
Motorflug Baden-Baden signed an agreement to be acquired by Eurocopter Deutschland.
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Torqued: Fatigue issues get closer to scrutiny
There were many times during my years as a mechanic when I was working totally exhausted, but for a number of reasons I continued past the point that I was
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800SP sprouts blended winglets
After a successful flight program and anticipated certification, Aviation Partners Inc.
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Nordam selected for Embraer support
The Nordam Group announced that international subsidiary Nordam Europe Ltd.
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Latest version of MxManager released
Aviation research and consulting firm Conklin and de Decker last month released the latest version of MxManager, its maintenance management software that p
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Jet Works appointed southern PC-12 service center
Aviation Sales Inc., Swiss aircraft maker Pilatus’ Western U.S.
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Midcoast's activity unbent by downturn
The September 11 terrorist attacks and economic downturn have seemingly done nothing to dent the maintenance and modification business of Midcoast Aviation
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High Tech introduces kit for metal plating
High Tech Finishing, a Houston-based provider of decorative metal plating for customer aircraft interiors, has developed a new maintenance kit designed to
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Jet Aviation Hannover wins Gulfstream 100/200 nod
Jet Aviation’s facility at Hannover, Germany, has been made an FAA repair station for the Gulfstream 100 and 200 jets, as well as the Westwind series.
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Drake Group programs now available on the Web
The Drake Group’s FAA certification training programs for managers and engineers involving TC/STC/PMA and TSO categories, previously presented at companies
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Airborne cuts cost with exchange plan
Parker Aerospace’s Nichols Airborne Division is here at NBAA to provide information about its bleed air valve new spare and factory-overhaul exchange progr
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Jet Aviation does 1st Universal TAWS at PBI
Jet Aviation at Palm Beach International Airport (PBI), West Palm Beach, Fla., has done that facility’s first installation and STC approval for Universal A
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Honeywell, PWC strike component repair deal
Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney Canada have agreed to start doing component repairs on some models of each other’s engines.
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Pilatus expands service options
Pilatus Aircraft announced here an expanding suite of maintenance support choices for PC-12 customers under the umbrella name of ServiceWorx.
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Looking for hard-to-find Hawker parts?
Raytheon Aircraft Parts Inventory and Distribution Co.
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Jet Aviation gets IHAS 8000 STC for Citation S550
Jet Aviation at Dallas Love Field has received an STC on installation of a Bendix/King IHAS 8000 integrated hazard awareness system on Cessna Citation S550
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Smiths Aerospace wins CJ3 contract
Cessna has chosen Smiths Aerospace to provide the hydraulic actuation and display systems for the new Citation CJ3 jet announced here at NBAA on Monday.
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Support specialists team up
Hamburg, Germany-based maintenance, repair and overhaul, and business jet completion provider Lufthansa Technik yesterday signed a memorandum of understand
