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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...

General Electric GE90 engine at Farnborough 2004

FAA issues Emergency AD Boeing 777-300ER GE engines

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an emergency airworthiness directive (AD), warning Boeing 777-300ER pow...

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DGCA demands IndiGo get rid of unmodified PW engines by mid-2020

IndiGo’s woes with its A320neo engines might soon come to an end. Calling the work that the airline has done so fa...

JO Aeronautical Systems Capability Growth On The Middle East MRO

PROFILE:Jordan Aeronautical-systems Company (JAC) is an Approved Maintenance Organization (AMO) specialized in Aircraft...

Boeing 737 MAX: LEAP engine production to slow but not stop

Following Boeing's decision to suspend the production of the 737 MAX, the joint venture composed of Safran and Gener...

Israel Aerospace Industries advises operators to ground Boeing 737 freighters, finds a fix

Israel Aerospace Industries advises grounding its Boeing 737Fs

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has reportedly advised customers not to fly some Boeing 737 freighters converted by th...

Russian Aviadvigatel PD-14 engine to power MC-21 aerotime aviation news

Introducing Aviadvigatel PD-14: engine to power MC-21

The Irkutsk Aviation Plant has completed assembly of a new MC-21-300 aircraft fuselage. While the fuselage is the fifth...

Spirit Airlines Airbus A319 landing aerotime aviation news

Lufthansa maintenance goes wrong, three workers injured

Spirit Airlines 31-strong Airbus A319 fleet appears to have just gotten one airplane short. An A319-100 was seriously da...

EASA issues AD for Rolls-Royce Trent engines on A3330neo and Boeing 787

EASA issues airworthiness directive for RR Trent 1000 and 7000

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued on November 20, 2019, an airworthiness directive (AD) for Ro...

Qatar turns to LEAP engines, places $4B order for Airbus A321neos

Qatar Airways has chosen CFM International LEAP-1A engines to power its new fleet of 50 Airbus A321neo family aircraft i...

Pratt & Whitney delivers 100th GTF engine in China

Sichuan Airlines took delivery of an Airbus A321neo. The aircraft is powered by Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan (GTF...

Rolls Royce postpones Trent 1000TEN HTP issue fix to 2021

Rolls Royce reports progress solving technical issues affecting three variants of its Trent 1000 engine. The company sta...

Canadian authorities restrict A220 engine thrust after incidents

Transport Canada, the Canadian civil aviation authority, has issued an emergency airworthiness directive to reduce the e...

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Airbus drops A321XRL anti-condensation system, supplier concerned

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