-HeavyLift Engineering has been contracted by Sabre Airlines to provide "full technical support" for the airline's new Boeing 737-800. The first aircraft entered entered service with the airline recently.
-Sabreliner's Goodyear Arizona-based subsidiary Dimension Aviation, which recently had its contract to convert McDonnell Douglas DC-10s and MD-11s to freighters terminated by Boeing, has received its own US Federal Aviation Administration repair station certificate to provide maintenance service on DC-10s. The company had previously used the Boeing Douglas Products Division licence.
-SAir Group technical services subsidiary SR Technics is to conduct the first ever heavy maintenance check on an Airbus A330 at its Zurich base in October. The aircraft is one of three five-year-old General Electric CF6-80E1-powered ex-Air Inter A330-300s operated by Sabena, and will be followed by the other two more aircraft in early 1999. SR Technics says it further intends to develop know-how and equipment to handle Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered A330-200s - 25 of which are on order from Sabena, Austrian Airlines and Swissair.
-Taiwan's Air Asia has secured a maintenance contract from DHL to perform C-checks on its Asia-Pacific fleet of seven Boeing 727 freighters in 1999. The company is planning for a NT$4 billion ($115 million) increase in capitalisation and the construction of larger aircraft hangars. Air Asia's parent company, Aerospace Industrial Development (AIDC), expects to sign initial agreements by the end of October with several potential local and international shareholders, totalling 51% of its holding.
-Sabena Technics has signed contracts to maintain Translux of Luxembourg's single Airbus A310-300, Armenian Airlines' A310, with a team based in Yerevan, and with Fischer Air, a Czech charter operator, for the CFM International CFM56 engines of its two Boeing 737-300s.
Source: Flight International
