-Pemco World Air Services will maintain three Boeing MD-11s operated by World Airways. Two of the aircraft will be maintained at the company's Dothan, Alabama facility, while work on the third will be accomplished at the company's new maintenance site in Victorville, California. World is the launch customer for the new engineering facility.
-All Nippon Airways (ANA) has contracted Boeing Wichita to convert one of its 747-200 passenger aircraft to cargo. The aircraft will arrive in Wichita in early 1999, and conversion will take about four months. After completion, the 747 will be operated by ANA's sister freight airline Nippon Cargo Airlines.
-The Russian /CIS aviation certification authority MAK has approved Ukrainian engine manufacturer Motor Sich to undertake major overhauls and most repairs to a range of nine of its engine types, including the D18T (which powers the Antonov An-124 and -225) D36 (which powers the Yakovlev Yak-42 and the An-72/74), the AI-20 (which powers the An-12 and Ilyushin Il-18 and An-32), the AI-24 (which powers the An-24 and An-26), the AI-25 (which powers the Yak-40) and TV3-117 (which powers Mil M-I8/17 helicopters). Vnukovo Aircraft Overhaul Plant and the Mineralie Voda plant have been approved to carry out full airframe overhauls on the Tupolev Tu-154. Vnukovo also has approval for the D-30K engine (which powers the Tu-154M, the Il-62M and the Il-76 family) while Mineralie Voda has approval also for the An-2 and a range of turboprop and piston engines.
-Hawker Pacific Aerospace's Sun Valley, California, unit will service and repair landing gears on nine McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s under a three-year contract with Canadian Airlines International.
-BFGoodrich Aerospace has opened a $15 million landing gear repair and overhaul centre in Miami, Florida.
-Lufthansa Technik has completed a D-check on an Airbus A310-300 of the German Ministry of Defence's Special Air Mission Wing.
Source: Flight International
