TNT Express is to use Spirent Systems' AuRA integrated maintenance, repair and overhaul software for configuration management and parts tracking on its European fleet of Airbus A300 and BAe 146 freighters. The US Air Transport Association (ATA) has relaunched its SPEC2000 website to promote the benefits of using its specifications, products and services to facilitate e-business. Spec2000.com also provides access to ATA's aircraft parts pricing database. Delta Connection carrier Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) is to begin regional-jet line maintenance at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, ahead of completion of a new maintenance facility at the airport later this year. ASA will lease a hangar able to accommodate two or three Bombardier CRJs overnight for inspections and repairs. A new line maintenance operation able to handle two CRJs and an ATR 72 overnight will begin at Montgomery, Alabama, in August. Tucson, Arizona-based Hamilton Aerospace Technologies is performing a C-check on a Boeing 737-200 Adv owned by ANA Air Sales, for delivery to a customer in the United Arab Emirates. The company has also started heavy maintenance on a Boeing 727-200 for Pegasus Aviation and is negotiating to repair three hail-damaged aircraft for the lessor. Hamilton has also signed an agreement to service seven 727-200s for Falcon Air Express and is upgrading the avionics in a Boeing 737-200 belonging to US lessor JODA, to allow operation in Europe. Officine Aeronavali, an Alenia Aeronautica/Finmeccanica company, has opened a new engine test area at its Naples-Capodichino plant. The test area is big enough to allow engine tests on all the main aircraft types, including widebodies. Data Systems & Solutions is providing engine health monitoring for Chatauqua Airlines' Rolls-Royce AE3007-powered Embraer ERJ-140/145 regional jets under a five-year agreement.
Source: Flight International
