European maintenance company FLS Aerospace is to undertake heavy maintenance on three Boeing 747-100Fs belonging to US freight operator Polar Air Cargo. The programme will be performed "nose to tail" at the FLS hangar at Stansted in the UK, starting on 11 August. The Danish-owned company has also secured a heavy-maintenance contract on a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 owned by Irish lessor Finavion. The aircraft is one of three to be operated by Russian carrier Transaero on Moscow-North American routes.

Source: Flight International