All MRO articles – Page 98
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PICTURE: A350-1000 wraps up high-elevation tests
Airbus has wrapped up high-elevation airport testing of the A350-1000 following a 10-day campaign in South America, and the aircraft involved has resumed tests in Toulouse.
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ROUTES: Incheon seeks partner to operate MRO facility
Seoul’s Incheon International airport is seeking an independent MRO company to set up a maintenance facility on a 102,000 square metre plot adjacent to its passenger terminals.
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Air Vallee gear-up landing traced to incorrect maintenance
Italian investigators have disclosed that incorrect maintenance was conducted on an Air Vallee Fokker 50’s nose-gear the day before the aircraft was forced to land with its nose-gear retracted.
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French authority joins UK in Airbus fraud probe
French financial judicial institution Parquet National Financier has joined the probe into alleged fraud at Airbus previously opened by UK authorities.
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Leonardo sketches 'modular, multi-task' civil-military aircraft
ATR shareholder Leonardo intends to break the industry impasse on development of a 100-seat regional turboprop with a new programme to create a "modular and multi-task" aircraft that would also replace the Italian manufacturer's C-27J tactical airlifter.
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UTAS pursues nanotubes for aircraft ice protection
UTC Aerospace Systems has licensed a carbon nanotube-based heater technology that it believes could be ready as an electrothermal ice protection system for aircraft within three or four years, the company says.
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Lufthansa CityLine to shut Cologne MRO base
Lufthansa regional subsidiary CityLine is to close its base maintenance facility in Cologne by 2020.
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HAECO operating profit slips 70% in 2016
Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering (HAECO) recorded a HK$127 million ($16.3 million) operating profit for the year ended 31 December 2016, down nearly 70% from the previous year.
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GAMECO starts first A380 3C-check
Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering (GAMECO) has started work on its first 3C-check on an Airbus A380 operated by China Southern Airlines.
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Boeing defends 737 Max 10 after lessors demur
A day after two lessors held back from endorsing the 737 Max 10X, a top Boeing executive defended the company’s proposed double-stretch of its re-engined single-aisle now being offered to customers.
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Thai links with Airbus to set up MRO facility
Thai Airways International has reached a tentative deal with Airbus to establish a new maintenance operation at U-Tapao.
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Boeing unveils first image of 737 Max 10X
Boeing’s marketing chief unveiled on 6 March the first image of the proposed 737 Max 10X amidst the first of likely a series of rhetorical duels with his Airbus counterpart at the ISTAT Americas convention in San Diego.
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ANALYSIS: Mexico's aerospace cluster prepares for Trump's changes
Larger in area than the UK, the Mexican state of Chihuahua snakes along the southern bank of the Rio Grande from New Mexico across the western one-third of Texas. More than any of Mexico’s 32 states, Chihuahua’s manufacturing sector has prospered under the 23-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ...
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Air India seeks landing gear overhaul for IAF Boeing 707
Air India has issued a tender seeking landing gear overhaul services for a Boeing 707-337C aircraft.
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India's DGCA identifies new gearbox issue on PW1100G
India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has identified the first known incident involving the gearbox of the PW1100G geared turbofan engine on the Airbus A320neo.
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Engine shortage, airframe tweaks prompt CSeries delivery pause
Bombardier has halted deliveries of the CSeries aircraft for two months to refine the production system and upgrade the aircraft configuration while the supply of Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan engines remains a bottleneck, chief executive Alain Bellemare tells Flightglobal.
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S7 Engineering to expand engine repair capacity
Russian MRO provider S7 Engineering is to open a second engine shop by year-end.
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China Airlines and Nordam to set up MRO JV
China Airlines and Nordam Aerospace Maintenance Group have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the establishment of an MRO joint venture to service thrust reversers and other composite aerospace parts.
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Boeing CEO highlights global approach in Trump era
In public remarks a couple miles away from the White House on 2 March, Boeing chief executive Dennis Muilenburg re-issued a call for re-empowering the Ex-Im Bank and elaborated on the company’s approach to globalisation in an era of the Trump administration in the USA and Brexit in the UK.
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GE9X engines to be overhauled in Wales
General Electric's overhaul shop in Wales is being prepared to service GE9X engines.