All MRO articles – Page 541
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P&W's Eagle soars to bolster perch in overhaul business
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney expects to see its engine-services sales reach $1 billion this year as its Eagle Services business continues to expand in the repair and overhaul sectors. Eagle Services generated roughly $600 million in 1996, representing around 10%of P&W's sales, but will have added another $400 ...
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SIA may beat Indian ban with support for new TATA airline
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has acknowledged that it has a provisional agreement with the TATA Group to provide technical support for its planned start-up carrier, despite an Indian Government ban on allowing any equity investment by foreign airlines. The company stresses that while SIA will provide "assistance and advice," the ...
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Air New Zealand leases 737s to boost Australia services
Air New Zealand (ANZ) is leasing three new Boeing 737-300s to enable it to boost capacity on services between New Zealand and Australia. The airline will increase frequencies with 26 new services weekly from Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington. Qantas is introducing 11 new flights on the trans-Tasman routes, using ...
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Pacific purchase
Airwork New Zealand has acquired Sydney-based Pacific Turbine, formerly the engine division of BTR-owned Hawker de Havilland. The unpublicised sale of the overhaul facilities, completed on 20 November, creates Australasia's largest independently owned aviation gas turbine engine overhaul centre. BTR, which is selling its entire aviation interests, has also sold ...
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Lucas wins Rolls-Royce Trent derivatives control-system contract
Lucas Aerospace has signed a risk-sharing agreement with Rolls-Royce to supply control systems for the recently launched Trent engine derivatives. The contract is estimated to be worth over £1.25 billion ($2 billion), including spares support. The UK company will manufacture electronic engine-controls, fuel-metering units and actuation equipment for the Trent ...
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Hong Kong faces Chek Lap Kok money troubles
The Hong Kong Airport Authority (HKAA) is having to address a projected two-month shortfall in operating revenue, following the Government's decision to delay until 6 July the opening of the territory's new international airport at Chek Lap Kok. Hong Kong International Airport will actually be ready at the end ...
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R-R and American in US maintenance venture
Rolls-Royce and American Airlines have signed a letter of intent to form a 50:50 engine repair joint venture based at American's existing Alliance maintenance base in Fort Worth, Texas. The tie-up follows the US carrier's selection in November of Trent 800 engines for 11 Boeing 777-200IGWs (Increased Gross Weight) ...
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UK's Lucas reveals ambitious plans following R-R deal
Lucas Aerospace, fresh from its Rolls-Royce engines-control deal, has put down its marker as a potential leader in the expected consolidation of the industry. "We have very ambitious plans for Lucas Aerospace," says Victor Rice, chairman of Lucas Varity, the parent company formed by the Anglo-US link-up of the ...
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Airbus firms up A3XX freighter
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Airbus is firming up its plans for combi and all-freight derivatives of its proposed A3XX airliner, as it works towards a launch decision by early 1999. As envisaged, both cargo versions of the baseline 560-seat, A3XX-100 will feature a main-deck 3.43 x 2.54m cargo door in ...
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Workshop
++ AMR Eagle's Regional Aircraft Maintenance Center, located at the former K I Sawyer AFB, Michigan, will perform C checks on 12 Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) ATR 72s turboprops operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines. The work began in early December 1997, and each aircraft visit will last for between five ...
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European Aviation buys two 747s from British Airways
European Aviation has concluded a deal worth an estimated $6 million to purchase two Boeing 747-100s from British Airways. The UK-based aircraft-trading and spares specialist is also close to finalising deals for other widebodied aircraft. The company, which has purchased the two 24-28-year-old 747s with their Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7A ...
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Boeing firms up the flightdeck design of stretched 767-400
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing has completed the firm design configuration of the stretched 767-400ER, revealing an upgraded flightdeck and a new-look cabin based on the 777 interior design. The bulk of the design was fixed by September 1997, but airline pressure drove Boeing to conduct trade studies on the additional ...
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Insurers warn on 1997
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Aviation insurers are again warning that they face a serious shortfall for 1997 following estimates which have put the cost of losses at close to $1.4 billion, despite a relatively encouraging year for air safety. The preliminary year-end figures from the UK Airclaims consultancy, widely used ...
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El Al takes MD-11 on short-term lease
El Al will boost its long- haul fleet later this year, with the lease of a Boeing MD-11 from World Airways. The MD-11ER will be introduced in June on an aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance lease from World. The aircraft will be operated for El Al through to October ...
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Collins for America
American Airlines has selected Rockwell-Collins as the primary avionics supplier for its new fleet of Boeing 737s and 777s. The ten-year agreement, worth $200 million, allows for guaranteed acquisition pricing and provides for maintenance and logistics support, and includes the GLU-920 multi-mode receiver, traffic-alert collision-avoidance system and WXR-700X forward- looking ...
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Boeing delivery delay forces Hokkaido to defer start-up
A delay in the delivery of aircraft has forced the Japanese start-up Hokkaido International Airlines to postpone its launch of regular services until mid-1998. The airline's first aircraft, a new Boeing 767-300ER leased from Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services, was scheduled for delivery in February but will now be up to ...
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Hughes wins Danish ATC training deal
Hughes Training's UK arm has won an $8 million contract to supply Denmark's civil-aviation administration with an air-traffic-control (ATC) training system for installation at its Copenhagen Airport academy. The system will include 34 radar-simulator positions, five aerodrome trainers and an ATC visual tower simulator. The contract marks the first ...
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EJA shelves Asia-Pacific NetJets
Ramon Lopez/Teterboro Financial turmoil and failure to gain flight clearances in a major market have forced Executive Jet Aviation (EJA) to shelve plans to extend its successful fractional-ownership programme to the Asia-Pacific region. The Montvale, New Jersey-based firm was expected to extend its NetJets programme to the Far ...
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Swissair looks for shares in Air Portugal and links with Air One
Julian Moxon/PARIS The Swissair Group has revealed its interest in taking a stake of up to 10% in TAP Air Portugal, and is set to complete a link with Italian carrier Air One which will see it taking a significant shareholding in the Alitalia rival. Swissair's interest in ...
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BA outsources maintenance of A320/DC-10 in FLS deal
Andrew Chuter/LONDON British Airways is to outsource maintenance and component support for the airline's entire fleet of Airbus A320s and McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s to FLS Aerospace. A contract is due to be signed later this month. The tie-up with BA will be the culmination of a hectic month ...