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Maintenance and Modifications

Rapco fleet support gets PMA for Sabreliner brakes

Sabreliner 40 and 60 operators now have another choice for aircraft equipped with ABSC (Goodyear) brakes.
Maintenance and Modifications

Banyan joins Raisbeck ZR Lite deal network

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Maintenance and Modifications

Finnair and Finncomm open ATR MRO

ATR turboprop aircraft maintenance is being developed in Finland as a result of a joint venture by Finnair and Finncomm Airlines.
Maintenance and Modifications

West Star Aviation restructures maintenance department

The Dallas facility of West Star Aviation has restructured its maintenance department.
Maintenance and Modifications

A&P gets four years in prison for parts scheme

Brian Snyder, owner and operator of aircraft repair business Smooth Landings, has been sentenced to 51 months in prison.

SkyWest to Take Stake in Brazilian Airline

SkyWest Airlines has agreed to buy a 6-percent stake in Brazilian regional airline Trip Linhas Aereas, SkyWest vice president of finance Mike Kraupp confir

Lufthansa goes fishing in Italian waters

When the Italian government put ailing Alitalia up for sale last winter, Lufthansa was not interested.
Maintenance and Modifications

Crownair Buys VNY’s RoigWest Maintenance

San Diego-based Crownair has acquired RoigWest Maintenance, a turbine aircraft maintenance and support center at Van Nuys Airport, the third busiest genera
Maintenance and Modifications

Jet Aviation to Expand Moscow Maintenance Base

A memorandum of understanding between Jet Aviation and Vnukovo Invest, co-owner of Moscow Vnukovo International Airport, has created a joint venture that w

GKN Develops Hot Bond in Autoclave Composites Repair

GKN Aerospace has developed a new repair process allowing hot-bonding of composite structure inside an autoclave.
Maintenance and Modifications

StandardAero Maryville Ready for PW600 Service

StandardAero last month concluded a shakedown run of the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW600 at the company’s new test cell facility in Maryville, Tenn.
Maintenance and Modifications

DOT IG Wants More Third-party Maintainer Oversight

Following a congressionally ordered probe of outsourced aircraft maintenance by the DOT Inspector General, the FAA and air carriers were put on notice to i
Avionics

Régional Takes First E170

Air France subsidiary Régional last month took delivery and placed into service the first of nine 76-seat Embraer E170s on firm order.

“Watch-listed” Pilot Returns to Work

Manassas, Va.-based regional airline Colgan Air has allowed Saab 340 first officer Erich Scherfen to return to work after he and his wife sued the U.S.

Iraqi CRJ900s Seized

The Quebec Superior Court in late August granted Kuwait Airways a seizure order for 10 Bombardier CRJ900s ordered by the Iraqi government for Iraqi Airways

New ATP Operator in Sweden

NextJet of Sollentuna, Sweden, has acquired three 68-seat BAE Systems ATP turboprops and plans to start flying them late this month in scheduled service be

ERA 2008: BAE makes case for economics of its quiet quad-jets

Seven years after BAE Systems canceled the ill-fated Avro RJX program, closing the hangar door on indigenous UK airliner production, the company’s regional

ERA 2008: Eastern Airways remains unfazed by soaring oil prices

UK regional airline Eastern Airways is “exactly on track, or slightly ahead” of projections for this year, according to COO Chris Holliday.

ERA 2008: ERA urges members to heed ETS call

Worried that some small operators have not considered the ramifications of the European Union emissions-trading scheme (ETS), the European Regions Airline

ERA 2008: ‘Front line’ issues turn more intense

European Regions Airline Association members face three “front-line” issues as they prepare for their annual general assembly in Manchester, England, this

Hawker Beech nets $200M order from Brazilian dealer

Marking one of the few large orders announced at NBAA’08, Brazil-based Lider Signatures, a Hawker Beechcraft dealer and authorized service center since 199

Olver’s absence could be a good sign for troubled Grob

Negotiations in Europe between Grob Aerospace and an undisclosed prospective new investor have continued into a third day.

J.P. Morgan analysts see market dip in 2010

The business jet market is headed for a 15-percent downturn following a peak in deliveries in 2010, according to J.P.

Blackhawk receives OK for King Air engine upgrade

Hawker Beechcraft King Air 200 and B200 operators have a new performance option, thanks to Blackhawk Modifications’ Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-52 XP e
Engines

GE Honda nearing HF120 certification

GE Honda Aero Engines said it is releasing hardware designs and receiving manufactured hardware for its first HF120 development engine, in preparation for

Nonprofit plans to fly ‘Silver Bird’ tribute

“This is a look-alike, not a replica,” said engineer Walt Hoy at the unveiling of the Wright Brothers’ “Silver Bird” Tuesday at Booth No.

Wichita Aero Club Launched

A consortium of business, government and educational organizations in the greater Wichita area has formed a Wichita Aero Club.

NARA Welcomes New Members

ExecuJet Aviation Group, Gama Aviation and Jet Alliance International were among the companies inducted Sunday into the National Aircraft Resale Associatio