All MRO articles – Page 552
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++ Virgin Atlantic Airways has signed a five-year contract with British Midland Engineering for maintenance checks on the airline's Airbus A340s and Boeing 747s at Heathrow Airport. ++ Saudia Arabian Airlines has agreed a deal with GAMCO for Ìve of the airline's Lockheed L-1011 TriStars to undergo US Federal Aviation ...
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Marketplace
++ Air Caledonie has placed an order for one additional new Aero International (Regional) ATR 42, for delivery before the end of 1997. The airline already flies three ATR 42s. ++ United Airlines has taken delivery of its first Airbus A319-100. The International Aero Engines V2500-A5-powered aircraft is one of ...
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Elliott
Marty Grier is named vice-president/general manager at business-aviation centre Elliott Aviation, of Moline, Illinois. He was formerly centre manager at FlightSafety International's Raytheon Maintenance Learning Center in Wichita, Kansas. Warren Tanner, vice-president of operations at has been promoted to the new position of director of special projects. Alan Nitchman, until ...
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China Southern sets its sights on New York stock exchange
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE China Southern Airlines has filed an application to list on the New York stock exchange, following a similar float by China Eastern Airlines earlier in the year and Hainan Airlines' more recent successful public offering on the Shanghai bourse. The Guangzhou-based carrier plans to ...
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Sempati president makes restructuring case
Sempati Air's recently appointed president, Santun Nainggolan, is warning that the Indonesian regional carrier's financial problems will get worse, unless the company is restructured and jobs shed. Nainggolan has compared Indonesia's largest private airline to an "overloaded boat" in danger of sinking if action is not taken to ...
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Asain maintenance
The 1997 Maintenance Directory for Asia, Africa and Australasia (Flight International, 28 May-3 June) wrongly combines the entries for Hong Kong Aero Engine Services (HAESL) and Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering (HAECO). The organisations would like to emphasise that HAESL took on the engine-overhaul activities of HAECO as a separate corporate ...
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AI(R) and TTS open Bangkok training centre
Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) and Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS) have opened a new ATR flight-simulator centre in Bangkok, in a move to improve support for the growing number of regional carriers operating ATR 42/72 turboprop aircraft. The Asian ATR Training Centre (AATC) opening follows certification by the ...
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P&W and SIA sign engine-overhaul agreement
Pratt & Whitney has signed a preliminary agreement to invest in Singapore Airlines' (SIA) engine service-and-overhaul capability and develop it as a regional joint-venture business. Under the memorandum signed, P&W plans to take a 51% stake in the joint venture, with SIA's engineering subsidiary holding the rest. The ...
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Ageing aircraft
Supersonic Aerospatiale/BAe (BAC) Concorde Thirteen of the 14 Concordes delivered to British Airways and Air France between 1975 and 1980 remain in service. Twenty Concordes were built, including two prototypes, two pre-production aircraft and two production aircraft which were not delivered. One of the seven Concordes ...
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Bombardier acts to fix cracks in CRJ fuselage bulkheads
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTONDC BOMBARDIER EXPECTED most of the 38 Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs) found to have fuselage-bulkhead cracks to be back in operation by 5 July. Repair of the final eight aircraft is awaiting the availability of hangar space. The repair takes three days and involves attaching ...
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An-124 Chapter 3 hushkit wins certification
A hushkit has been certificated for the Antonov An-124 which enables the cargo aircraft to comply with the International Civil Aviation Organisation's (ICAO) Chapter 3 noise legislation . The approval marks the first step towards the modification of all An-124s to Chapter 3 rules as additional hushkits become ...
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Cabin deal
French maintenance company Sogerma is to supply Sabena with cabin interiors for its long-range fleet. It will also equip the aircraft with satellite communications and reporting systems. A deal has also been signed with Airbus for conversion of three A330-300s previously owned by Air Inter Europe. Completion is set for ...
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EVA maintains
EVA Airways' planned joint-venture maintenance site with General Electric will focus primarily on test and overhaul of CF6 and, possibly, International Aero Engine V2500 powerplants. GE says that the new centre is intended to complement the work and capabilities of its other two planned engine joint deals with Malaysia Airlines ...
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Starring role
Ansett is being propelled on to the international stage, with its strategic partnership with ANZ and SIA Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE When Rod Eddington was approached to head Ansett, the former Cathay Pacific Airways managing director made a tie-up with Air New Zealand (ANZ) a prerequisite condition. After just ...
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Work programme for a major overhaul
BECAUSE OF limited hangarage, most aviaremonts (overhaul centres) firstly strip down an aircraft outdoors before bringing it into a hangar. This involves: removing wings, engines and tailplane; check for damage/wear. A detailed inspection is undertaken and the work needed is listed and discussed with the operator: ...
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Restructuring industry
In 1994, at the request of the Russian Government, a US Federal Aviation Administration team visited Russia to carry out an audit of the country's civil aviation, and to recommend what was needed to bring it into line with modern international standards. One of the resulting pieces of ...
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The Taiwan connection
Since 1990, Aero Vodochody has been focusing its civil-aviation efforts on trying to push ahead with a single-turboprop utility-transport project known as the Aero Ae 270, now given the name Ibis. The programme has been through various revisions, and a full-size fuselage mock-up has often been seen at ...
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Changing the differences
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW In common with all Soviet overhaul sites, Factory N402 at Moscow's Bykovo Airport had specific work allocated to it. Until the early 1990s, it was the overhaul centre for most of the world's ageing Ilyushin Il-18 turboprops. The Factory was also the only centre in the ...
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Embry-Riddle opens simulation centre
EMBRY-RIDDLE Aeronautical University's Advanced Flight Simulation Centre has opened at its Daytona Beach, Florida, campus, equipped with a Raytheon Beech 1900D full-flight simulator built by FlightSafety International. The centre is a joint venture between Embry-Riddle and FlightSafety, and offers training to airlines as well as to the university's students. ...