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ITP Aero in Ajalvir, Spain, is now a designated facility for the maintenance, repair, and overhaul of PW200 engines.

Ametek MRO Facilities in the U.S. and UK recently won three industry operational excellence and sustainability awards.

Aerocare Aviation Services Limited completed its first full repainting of an Embraer Praetor 600 aircraft at its expanded paint facility in Chester, UK.

JetMS Holdings is opening a more than 75,000-sq-ft aircraft interior fabrication and installation facility in Kaunas, Lithuania.

C&L Aerospace signs on as a Parker-Meggitt Securaplane products dealer for main ship batteries, emergency batteries, and business jet camera product lines.

Aircraft lighting specialist PWI earned parts manufacturer approval from the FAA for LED Cabin Lighting upgrades on Dassault Falcon 900B business jets.

Pro Star Aviation upgrades a Phenom 300 with Whelen HID taxi and landing light system.

Gulfstream begins a $98.5M expansion to its Savannah service center.

Stevens Aerospace has been approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation to perform hydrostatic cylinder testing at its Nashville, Tennessee facility.

Jet East has opened a new full-service MRO facility at Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina.

Atlas Air Services named as first European dealer for Prizm Aircraft Products line of LED cabin lighting and window shade products.

Duncan Aviation recently delivered a fully-transformed Falcon 900EX for an undisclosed customer.

Jet East is expanding its avionics services into Trenton, New Jersey, and Dallas.

General Atomics AeroTec Systems has earned approvals for Embraer Praetor 500/600 inspections.

Jet Aviation has received FOCA approval for LMR in Zurich.

Vision Aircraft Records and ARC Document Solutions are partnering to deliver end-to-end service for operators moving to digital maintenance logbooks.

ExecuJet MRO Services Belgium has received approvals for its mobile repair unit to provide line maintenance services in several European countries.

YouTube personality Jimmy Webb has always wanted a “really cool” private jet but never dreamed he would achieve this goal by buying Elvis’s JetStar.

VIP Completions recently delivered a Bombardier Global Express after completing its highly-personalized interior and exterior.

California-based aircraft maintenance company ACI Jet has completed its first Collins Pro Line Fusion avionics upgrade on a Bombardier Challenger 604.

Greely, Colorado aircraft parts and salvage company BAS Part Sales has acquired the assets of its longtime competitor White Industries.

Universal Avionics is now an approved North American service provider for Dassault FalconEye Enhanced Flight Vision System.

Component manufacturer Ontic has signed license agreements with Honeywell to deliver legacy radar systems and navigation and communication product lines.

C&L Aviation Group has been approved as an exclusive factory authorized repair facility for Héroux-Devtek Hawker-series products.

Jung Sky has added Part 145 line maintenance services for Cessna Citation 525, 525A, and 525B-series aircraft at its Zagreb Airport Base.

Southeast Aerospace has purchased several Texas Aerospace Technologies tri-axial accelerometers for flight data recorder installs.

MySky has introduced an auto-quoting feature developed specifically for business aircraft charter customers based in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

ST Engineering and Pensacola State College are laying plans to co-develop an aircraft maintenance technician academy in Pensacola, Florida.

Walt Disney used various aircraft to support his numerous projects, but the one most associated with him was his beloved Gulfstream I.

In addition to their normal targets of opportunity, cyber hackers are also finding that an aircraft's unprotected network can be ripe for data piracy.