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Bombardier steps into share purchase deal with Lufthansa Technik

Bombardier Aviation entered into share purchase agreements with Lufthansa Technik and ExecuJet Aviation Group. The Canad...

Aircraft refueling by high pressure fuel supply truck

Neste and Shell Aviation jump on the eco-fuel trend for jets

Neste and Shell Aviation signed a supply agreement for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The agreement would increase the...

Lufthansa Technik signs new contract: seeks to reign in China

Lufthansa Technik Shenzhen and China Aviation Supplies (CASC) signed a new long-term contract of Total Component Mainten...

British Airways Boeing 777-200 landing at Heathrow Airport LHR

Trouble brewing over British Airways Boeing 777 GE90 engines?

One in-flight incident could have showcased a potential glaring problem with British Airways' Boeing 777 fleet...

Boeing 737-800 BCF of Amazon Prime Air at Paris Air Show 2019

Boeing gets two 737-800BCF orders, launches more conversion lines

Boeing announced that an unidentified customer made an order for two 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighters (BCF) on WHAN....

MRO companies: Technicians & mechanics shortage coming soon?

Aviation industry experts believe that the market of spare parts and MRO services will soon experience the golden age....

How Corona-virus Brought Aerospace Down To Earth

August has been a faster month in terms of recovery for aviation companies. Growing demand for air travel and airplane m...

AirAsia announces new subsidiary, expands into MRO

AirAsia Berhad, a Malaysian low-cost carrier, has announced the formation of an engineering service entity Asia Digital...

Canadian operators to modify A220s as rain causes engine failure

A new airworthiness directive issued by Transport Canada requires all Airbus A220 operators in Canada to modify the jet,...

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Korean Air to turn its 777-300ER into air freighter

Korean Air received verification to remodel a passenger Boeing 777-300ER into a cargo aircraft....

EASA issues repeated checks for Rolls-Royce Airbus A380 engines

EASA announced that repetitive on-wing inspections are now necessary for three variants of Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines...

Iran Air Force Boeing 747 suffers damage during test run

The Iranian Air Force Boeing 747-200B suffered significant damage during an engine test run at Mehrabad International Ai...

Airbus drops A321XRL anti-condensation system, supplier concerned

Stepping up in the development of its newest plane, Airbus has reversed its resolution to offer an active dry-air genera...

Rolls-Royce identifies cracks on A350 XWB engine blades

Rolls-Royce identified signs of wear in the blades of some Intermediate Pressure Compressors (IPC) of XWB-84 engines tha...

Transavia Boeing 737 800 NG aircraft stored at Eindhoven Airport

FAA warns of Boeing 737 double-engine power loss

Following four in-flight engine shutdowns, the FAA issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive (EAD) to all Boeing 737 C...

Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 on Scoot Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner

Rolls-Royce estimates engine flying hours were down 50%

With the global air travel industry stopping almost to a halt due to the pandemic, engine makers have also suffered mass...

Fingermind gives MRO providers fast and reliable data access

With the increase in traffic and aircraft becoming more technologically demanding with each new generation, the maintena...

Antonov An-225 Mriya returns home for engine check-up

The Antonov An-225 Mriya, the world’s largest operating aircraft, returned to base after two months of an intensiv...

Colibri Aero, J&C Aero to develop cargo containers for widebodies

Colibri Aero with J&C Aero announced the development of cargo containers for widebody passenger cabins. It would all...

Finishing touches for German governmental A350 XWB

The first A350 of the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force, flew from Toulouse, France to Hamburg, Germany, to receive a tran...

Lufthansa Technik pursuing world’s first A380 freighter

Thirteen years after the double-decker, long-hauler superjumbo by Airbus entered service as a passenger aircraft, the A3...

Significant growth in business aviation amid COVID-19 outbreak

The current situation in the world regarding COVID-19 has seen private aviation companies report an increase of 400% in...

Etihad operates biggest MRO program in its history

After COVID-19 flight restrictions left 80% of its fleet grounded, Etihad Airways embarked on what it calls the most ext...

The Top 15 Best Traded Aircraft Spare Parts Of 2019

Aviation encounters new challenges every year due to the structure of its industry. Whether it’s in commercial flights f...

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Turning Airbus A320 passenger plane to cargo

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic and subsequent crisis have accelerated passenger aircraft groundings at an unprecedente...

Part 147 Trainings, Challenges And Solutions

As the aviation industry is currently going through the COVID-19 crisis and class courses are being stopped or reschedul...

FL ARI receives EASA Part 145 certificate in China

FL ARI Aircraft Maintenance & Engineering Company Ltd (“FL ARI”), a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) service p...

Vietnam Airlines flaming A321 incident prompts FAA emergency AD

On March 18, 2020, Vietnam Airlines flight VN920 from Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) to Phnom Penh (Cambodia) had a short bu...

How to establish an MRO foothold in Asia | AeroTime Podcast

In 2016, the Lithuanian MRO provider FL Technics gained a foothold in Asia by opening a hangar in Jakarta, Indonesia. Be...

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First PW1200G engine assembled in Japan enters flight testing

The first Pratt & Whitney GTF™ PW1200G engine assembled in Japan has begun flight testing. The maiden flight o...

Airbus A321 passenger-to-freighter conversion certified by EASA

Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), a joint venture of Singapore-based ST Engineering and Airbus, announced that its newest produc...

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Bombardier steps into share purchase deal with Lufthansa Technik

Neste and Shell Aviation jump on the eco-fuel trend for jets

Lufthansa Technik signs new contract: seeks to reign in China

Trouble brewing over British Airways Boeing 777 GE90 engines?

Boeing gets two 737-800BCF orders, launches more conversion lines

MRO companies: Technicians & mechanics shortage coming soon?

How Corona-virus Brought Aerospace Down To Earth

AirAsia announces new subsidiary, expands into MRO

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From Boeing 737 to tactical freighter: commercial pilot turns military aviator

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Pandemic challenge: Norwegian Captain rejoins Dutch Air Force

Captain Andreea turns author of book dedicated for children

Canadian operators to modify A220s as rain causes engine failure

Korean Air to turn its 777-300ER into air freighter

EASA issues repeated checks for Rolls-Royce Airbus A380 engines

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Iran Air Force Boeing 747 suffers damage during test run

Airbus drops A321XRL anti-condensation system, supplier concerned

Rolls-Royce identifies cracks on A350 XWB engine blades

FAA warns of Boeing 737 double-engine power loss

Rolls-Royce estimates engine flying hours were down 50%

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