Lasham, UK-based Triumph Air Repair (Europe) has renewed its three-year agreement with London Gatwick-based GB Airways to maintain its Honeywell GTCP 85 series auxiliary power units on the airline's Boeing 737s. Pan American has begun installing Raisbeck Stage 3 kits on its seven Boeing 727-200s, a combination of upgrading Stage 2 aircraft and replacing earlier Stage 3 modifications. The fleet will be retrofitted by August. Hawker Pacific Aerospace has won a three-year contract to provide landing-gear overhaul services for Polar Air Cargo's 15 Boeing 747s. Hawker Pacific Aerospace is also to provide landing gear overhaul services for Saudi Arabian Airlines at its UK and US facilities. AAS Aircraft Services, the new subsidiary of American Aircarriers Support, has won its first heavy maintenance contract, to complete a C-check and install Stage 3 hushkit on a Boeing 727-200 freighter for lessor Finova Capital. Lufthansa Technik has been awarded a 10-year contract from Air Malta covering the overhaul of CFM International CFM56s on its two Airbus A320s and seven Boeing 737-300s.
The company disclosed its March order and delivery figures on 8 April, saying FedEx signed a deal covering eight 777 Freighters last month and that unnamed customers ordered 21 737 Max, three 777Fs, 20 of the in-development 777X and 33 787s.
South African air navigation service ATNS is suspending instrument flight procedures at three airports after regulatory approvals expired. No access to Bloemfontein airport, as well as Richards Bay and Upington, will be available during poor visibility conditions until restoration work is complete. But certain approach procedures for several key airports ...
Australian carrier Alliance Aviation has taken action to stop recurrent speed-mode selection errors by Embraer crews, after an incident in which pilots of an E190 initially failed to notice their jet was slowing as it climbed away from the Solomon Islands. The first officer, who was flying the jet from ...