Maintenance

Bombardier expands maintenance station at Paris Le Bourget Airport

Bombardier has announced that it has expanded its Line Maintenance Station (LMS) facility at Le Bourget Airport (LBG) in ...

technician checking engine of civil airliner

Recovery on the horizon? How MROs are adapting to a changing aviation market

As the aviation industry continues to recover, how are MRO organizations adapting to changes post-pandemic? AeroTime inv ...

Apollo fund considers €500 million investment in Air France-KLM spare engines

The US fund Apollo is in talks to inject €500 million into one of Air France-KLM’s subsidiaries, which owns a ...

Ryanair opens $10.5M heavy maintenance bay in Ireland

Ryanair opens its first heavy maintenance facility in Ireland at Shannon Airport (SNN)....

BCAA bans MRO services for 635 Russian planes registered in the country

The Bermuda Civil Aviation Authority (BCAA) has suspended all aircraft maintenance certificates for all Russian-operated...

Mark and Lisa’s story: from hangar friendship to wedding bells

Starting her aviation career as a flight attendant, Lisa would never have met her husband Mark if she had not discovered ...

LOTAMS completes world’s first D check on Boeing 767 with 50,000 flight cycles

LOTAMS completes a heavy maintenance check on a Boeing 767 aircraft, which has undergone 50,000 flight cycles &nbs ...

First Qantas A380 returns to Australia from Dresden, Germany

Qantas’ first A380 aircraft lands back in Sydney on November 9, 2021, 593 days after it departed Australian shores ...

Incorrect wiring behind deadly PenAir turboprop runway excursion in Alaska

Incorrectly wired anti-skid sensors caused a PenAir turboprop to overrun a runway, killing one passenger ...

3D printed spare parts – a market worth US$400 billion

For several years, industry analysts have been predicting that 3D printed aircraft spare parts will be the next great te ...

A small jet engine accident, a big bill

As with almost everything in aviation, engine maintenance is an expensive, but necessary procedure, and one that must be ...

Forgotten screwdriver tip leads to Jetstar Airways A320 incident on takeoff

A forgotten screwdriver tip left in Jetstar Airways A320 engine caused an incident on takeoff back in 2020, Austral ...

Lufthansa aircraft, Airbus A330 and A340, Frankfurt Airport

Aircraft reactivation: has how we store aircraft changed?

Commercial aircraft operate on a framework of near-continual use. But indefinite parking of aircraft has presented a cha ...

Are drones the future of MRO?

Several companies have presented drone solutions for the MRO industry. But this innovative technology wasn’t adopt ...

Storm Aviation acquires UK line station network from SR Technic

Storm Aviation buys UK line station network from SR Technics

Storm Aviation, buys the majority of the United Kingdom-based line station network from MRO service provider SR Tec...

Fingermind: MRO industry needs innovation to rationalize itself

The MRO sector, much like the rest of the aviation industry, focuses its energy on rationalizing costs. As a consequence...

Exclusive with Testia: when VR meets maintenance

Teddy Canadas, Chief Commercial Officer at Testia, presented to Ina Hladyshava from AeroTime the innovative so ...

How to get a plane in the air without taking off

Qantas Airways can lift an Airbus A330 and even larger planes off the ground using giant hydraulic jacks. ...

Video Shows Five-Tonne Airbus Jet Engine Being Changed

A video shows just how much work goes into changing one of those engines on one of the largest aircrafts in the world - ...