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.
Aircraft
Sino Swearingen selects Stevens
Sino Swearingen has selected Greenville, S.C.-based Stevens Aviation as the OEM’s first North American authorized service facility for the new SJ30-2 light
Maintenance and Modifications
Boeing to acquire Aviall
Aviall has agreed to be purchased by The Boeing Company for a reported $48 per share ($1.7 billion).
Maintenance and Modifications
Bombardier strengthens worldwide technical support
In response to its growing worldwide fleet, Bombardier continues to expand its product-support capacity.
Aircraft
Renovation Hardware
In medicine it goes by various names: restorative surgery, cosmetic surgery, transplant surgery.
Maintenance and Modifications
Duncan Aviation offers program enhancements
A new program that offers value-added solutions to the business jet aircraft sales marketplace is being offered by Duncan Aviation.
Rotorcraft
FAA delays drug-testing rule; ARSA continues lawsuit
The FAA has put its proposed expansion of the drug and alcohol testing program on the back burner for six months, canceling the April 10 compliance date.
FBOs
Landmark Aviation LAX named LearJet and Challenger facility
Bombardier Aerospace has appointed Landmark Aviation’s Los Angeles facility an authorized service center for Bombardier Learjets and Challengers.
Maintenance and Modifications
Gulfstream reinforces product support in Asia-Pacific
Gulfstream Aerospace has added a second field service representative (FSR) in Hong Kong and a second FSR in Singapore to support its growing Asia-Pacific f
Aircraft
Landmark Aviation to install King Air winglets
Under the terms of an agreement with BLR Aerospace, Landmark Aviation has become an authorized dealer for the Everett, Wash.-based aerospace research and d
Maintenance and Modifications
Raytheon and Dassault receive MX awards from Netjets
Fractional provider NetJets recently awarded a trophy to Raytheon Aircraft’s Little Rock facility for outstanding performance.
Aircraft
Lufthansa Bombardier doubles Berlin Learjet capacity
Berlin-Schoenefeld Airport will experience a major facility expansion as Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services opens a new hangar dedicated to Learjet mai
Maintenance and Modifications
Pratt & Whitney enters market for PMA parts
Pratt & Whitney took the aviation world by surprise when it announced in February the launch of a new division to manufacture PMA replacement parts for CFM
Aircraft
Luton Center adds $4.5 Million in Gulfstream spare parts
Gulfstream Aerospace is adding spare-parts inventory valued at $4.5 million to its Luton, England, service center to support the growing fleet of Gulfstrea
Charter & Fractional
Mayo Aviation: Charter firm offers maintenance services
Mayo Aviation, located on Englewood, Colo.’s Centennial Airport, offers both maintenance and a large Part 135 operation.
Maintenance and Modifications
CRS JET spares ISO 9001:2000 and AS9120 certified
“Obtaining ISO 9001:200 and AS9120 certification of our quality-management system was a critical part of meeting the demand for the highest level of qualit
Maintenance and Modifications
Raisbeck Engineering appoints Stevens Aviation ZR Lite Center
Raisbeck Engineering has appointed Stevens Aviation of Greenville, S.C., an authorized installation center for the ZR Lite.
FBOs
Landmark consolidates avionics installation work
Landmark Aviation informed employees in late March of a consolidation of the company’s avionics installation work.
Safety
Another Gulfstream facility gets environmental, safety ok
Gulfstream’s Long Beach, Calif., business-jet completions and product support site is now ISO 14001- and OHSAS 18001-compliant.
Maintenance and Modifications
ATP offers desktop regulatory and maintenance information
Aircraft Technical Publishers (ATP) has released NavigatorV Release 6, a desktop viewer offering regulatory and maintenance information in one place.
Maintenance and Modifications
National Flight Services selects Trend Group for the TPE331
Trend Group has signed a teaming agreement with National Flight Services of Toledo, Ohio, to provide trend monitoring and analysis service for each overhau
Safety
FSI expands maintenance courses through global jet services
FlightSafety will now provide its customers direct access to the full array of Global Jet Services professional development maintenance courses, including
Charter & Fractional
Flight Options to use API for rotable management
Aerospace Products International (API), a provider of distribution and supply chain services, has been chosen by Flight Options for rotables management.
Maintenance and Modifications
New Pratt & Whitney Canada capability at Dallas Airmotive
Dallas Airmotive is adding component repair capability for the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A/T, JT15D and PW300/ PW500 engine series to its Lafayette, La
Maintenance and Modifications
Swiss operator chooses JSSI
JSSI has been selected by Fly Wings, a Swiss operator, to provide its Tip-to-Tail hourly maintenance cost guarantee program for the company’s new Piaggio A
Maintenance and Modifications
Lanmar adds avionics service
Lanmar Aviation at Groton-New London Airport in Groton, Conn., has expanded its Part 145 repair station maintenance capability to include an in-house avion
Safety
FSI to provide Gulfstream techs with maintenance training
Under the terms of an agreement signed by Gulfstream Aerospace and FlightSafety International (FSI), FSI will provide systems training to Gulfstream techs
Maintenance and Modifications
Aviation Industry Expo 2006: User Fees: What May or May Not Be
If Air Transport Association (ATA) CEO James May has his way, business aviation will start paying more of what he believes is a fair share of the costs of
Maintenance and Modifications
Aviation Industry Expo 2006: PAMA experiences turnaround
“This is our first show since the SAE [Society of Automotive Engineers] alliance and I think it’s going well.
Maintenance and Modifications
NBAA conference highlights leadership roles for today’s maintenance technician
More than a few business aviation technicians have expressed frustration that NBAA doesn’t represent them and their interests, maintaining, instead, that t
Aircraft
Mitsubishi Buys MU-2 Service Center
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America (MHIA), the Addison, Texas-based subsidiary of the Japanese company that built the MU-2 turboprop twin, has acquired In
