MRO – Page 585
-
News
Air Canada
Chris Nassenstein has been appointed vice-president for technical operations at Air Canada, with effect from 1 February. He was most recently vice-president for maintenance and engineering at Canadian Airlines and has also held senior positions at Nordair, Austin Airways and Quebecair. He replaces John Dickie. Source: ...
-
News
STAe
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe), the Aerospace arm of the Singapore Technologies Group, has appointed Wee Siew Kim senior vice-president (operations) for its commercial-business group. Oci Ling Heong becomes senior vice-president (marketing). Tang Kok Fai has resigned as executive vice-president of the commercial-business group. Source: Flight International
-
News
AB Shannon
David Billingsby (left) has been appointed sales manager for AB Shannon, part of the Air Bristol Group, of Bristol, Avon, UK. Billingsby, formerly general sales manager of maintenance company JEA, of Exeter, Devon, and, before that, director of sales at Budget Rent-a-Car, is seen with group chief executive Brian Beal. ...
-
News
What's on
Asian Aerospace '96 6-11 February, Singapore. Contacts (Asia-Pacific) Reed Exhibition Companies, tel: +65 371 0705; fax +65 271 4520; (North America) tel: +1 (203) 840 5342; fax: +1 (203) 840 9342; (Rest of the World) Reed Exhibition Companies, Oriel House, 26 The Quadrant, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey TW9 1DL, UK; tel: +44 ...
-
News
Start for Woomera's space bid agreement signed
AN AUSTRALIAN engineering company and Russia's Scientific Technical Complex (STC) have signed an agreement to study the feasibility of establishing a commercial launch service for low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites from the Woomera Rocket Range in South Australia. The Russian Start booster would be used to carry 600kg payloads to ...
-
News
British Midland to face JAR action
IMPLEMENTATION OF the European Joint Aviation Regulations (JARs) has led to criminal charges being brought against British Midland Airlines by the UK Civil Aviation Authority following a maintenance error in 1995. JARs make companies, rather than individuals, responsible for errors. The BMA mistake caused the emergency diversion and ...
-
News
Global Express assembly begins
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA ASSEMBLY OF THE first Global Express long-range business jet has begun at Bombardier's partner companies. The forward fuselage, produced by Shorts in the UK, has been joined to Canadair's cockpit section at the Canadian company's Montreal plant, while preliminary mating of the wing and centre fuselage has taken ...
-
News
STAe agrees funds for maintenance arm
SINGAPORE Technologies Aerospace (STAe) has gone ahead with the recapitalisation of its loss-making maintenance company ST Aviation Services (SASCO), after reaching agreement with partner shareholders Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Japan Airlines (JAL). Under the restructuring plan, STAe has converted a S$20 million ($14 million) loan into preference shares ...
-
News
SEP sizes up Messier-Bugatti purchase
FRENCH ROCKET-engine manufacturer SEP is angling to take over the Messier-Bugatti carbon-brakes business, its sister company within the Snecma group. SEP president Roger Vignelles says that he wants to take over the brakes business to reinforce non-space business while his company prepares for a fall in revenues from ...
-
News
AAR
AAR Oklahoma of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, has announced that James Whaylen has been promoted to director of business-aviation maintenance services. Whaylen was manager of business-aviation service sales. David Chapman is promoted to Whaylen's former position. Source: Flight International
-
News
Trislander production line restarts
ANGLO NORMANDY Aero-engineering has put the Britten Norman Trislander back into limited production, 14 years after the last airframe was built by the UK aviation company. The Guernsey, Channel Islands-based Anglo Normandy received two Trislander kits late in 1995 from the USA where they have been kept in ...
-
News
Dornier pushes for laminar-wing funding
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DORNIER LUFTFAHRT, the regional-turboprop subsidiary of Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA), is pushing for Government funding to test a laminar-flow wing on the Dornier 328 regional turboprop. The German company says that the project is one of several technology investigations applicable to future regional-turboprop designs, ...
-
News
FLS cutback
FLS Aerospace is shedding up to 320 of its 670-strong maintenance workforce at Stansted Airport in the UK, with the exact number of redundancies to be announced by 20 March. Source: Flight International
-
News
The fight goes on
Airliner markets are on the mend, but the fight for orders remains as fierce as ever. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE AIRLINER MARKET is finally on the upturn. While 1995 may not have been a vintage year for the big-three jet-aircraft manufacturers, the tally of new orders was respectable ...
-
News
FAA changes its mind on 747 conversions
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration admits that it has made a mistake in approving modifications by GATX Airlog, which turned ten Boeing 747 passenger aircraft into freighters, and it has proposed an airworthiness directive (AD) severely restricting cargo weights. The FAA is ...
-
News
India turns down three domestic carriers' plans for expansion
THE INDIAN Government has rejected the expansion plans of domestic carriers Jet Airways, Skyline NEPC and Sahara Indian Airlines. It is believed that the rejection was on the grounds that the airlines had failed to utilise earlier approvals to import aircraft. In the meantime, another Indian domestic carrier, ...
-
News
Nordam expands into Asia-Pacific
NORDAM HAS opened a thrust-reverser repair centre in Singapore in a move to provide airlines in the Asia-Pacific region with reduced turnaround times. The centre, near Singapore's Changi International Airport, is equipped to repair reversers on the CFM International CFM56-3, General Electric CF6-50 and -80 and Pratt & Whitney PW4000 ...
-
News
No alternative to BALPA/BA deal
Sir - Ivor Bennett has got the wrong end of the stick in his letter "Inconsistency in BALPA policy" (Flight International, Letters, 22-28 November 1995, P68). The facts are as follows. Early in 1995, British Airways proposed the introduction of "cadet cruise-only" pilots, on to the Boeing 747-400 ...
-
News
US/UK air-safety bilateral finalised
THE USA AND THE UK have signed a bilateral aviation-safety agreement, which eases the oversight of aircraft and simulator certification, as well as maintenance operations. An agreement with the Netherlands was made in 1995 and the US Federal Aviation Administration is also working with Canada, France and Germany ...
-
News
KLM
P F Hartman executive vice-president for personnel and organisation at Netherlands national carrier KLM is named executive vice-president for engineering and maintenance, replacing R G van Groenewoud, who is to leave the company. Hartman is replaced by, C van Woudenberg now executive vice president, for flight services. C J M ...