Maintenance and Modifications
News and issues about aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), covering all segments of the aviation industry; and modifications for aircraft and engines. Subjects include product support of aircraft, engines and avionics, MRO company mergers, acquisitions, announcements and personnel, Airworthiness Directives, Supplemental Type Certificate approvals and other topics.
The Challenger 300 will support an installed base of more than 700 aircraft in Europe and the Middle East.
The company draws from a Las Vegas client base, but offers global mobile services that have reached as far as Australia and Siberia.
The French airframer's 2019 seminars will be held in eight cities in Europe, North and South America, and Asia.
Open 24/7, the facillity which employs more than 70 technicians, can accommodate up to 15 large cabin aircraft.
The company in cooperation with DC Aviation Al-Futtaim's Dubai facility has performed its first work on a Saudi-registered aircraft, an A-Check on an A320.
“After considerable research and evaluation,” Gulfstream Aerospace is closing its service center at Bertram Luiz Leupolz Airport in Sorocaba, Brazil.
When completed in summer 2019, the addtiional 10,000 sq ft will bring the complex to 86,000 sq ft.
Business aviation services company Western Jet Aviation has expanded its existing full-service Gulfstream maintenance capabilities to include the G650.
Aircraft OEMs and MROs try to balance mobile service demands for AOG with light maintenance service requests.
Gulfstream boosted its customer support resources in Europe and Asia, adding maintenance hangar space at Paris-Le Bourget and more capabilities in Beijing.