Aviation Week MRO

Transportation Safety Board of Canada calls for fatigue regulation and improved Safety Management Systems.

Private equity firm Liberty Hall Capital Partners said Dec. 3 it bought Aircraft Performance Group (APG), which offers proprietary flight operations software targeted at the aerospace aftermarket.

Passenger-door seal damage caused by a catering truck created an unnerving onboard noise that led a Qantas AirbusA380 to return to Sydney 2 hr. into a scheduled flight to the U.S., an Australian Transport Safety Board (ATSB) report found.

The MRO provider will support Boeing 737 aircraft used for prisoner transport out of Oklahoma City and Las Vegas.

The deal with U.S. low-cost carrier Frontier will run for five years and includes up to 10 years of salary raises.

Etihad Airway Engineering’s long-term vision is to use additive manufacturing for most cabin interior parts.

Aviation Week speaks with Air New Zealand CEO Christopher Luxon to find out more about how the new Auckland to Chicago route will be serviced and what the airline’s expansion plans entail.

To support its growing fleet, the airline is offering accelerated A&P training and employment opportunities along with a perks package valued at up to $11,000.

United’s growing digital MRO Initiative will move to base maintenance teams next.

Lessors own about half of the commercial aviation aircraft fleet, so is it a surprise their influence on PMA and digitized records is increasing?

Agency seeks to alleviate bottlenecks for students taking the mechanic certification exam.

Changes already implemented at Lion Air MRO subsidiary Bantam Aero Technic after gaps were identified in some of the airline's maintenance operations.

The company says its latest acquisition of component repair specialist Avborne will fill gaps in its existing MRO capability.

The MRO provider will provide on-site engineering, maintenance and component support for the airline’s modernizing fleet.

The company says Bed Bug Killer, which is the first product of its kind approved for aviation, provides a quicker, cheaper alternative to the industry’s current bed bug treatments.

Aviation Week caught up with the CEOs of Donecle and MRO Drone at MRO Europe to find out more about where the use of drones for maintenance is headed and what is still standing in the way of its full potential.

From the exhibition floor at MRO Europe 2018, David Lefebvre, mechanical engineer for Gastops, demonstrates the company's ChipCHECK analyzer. Through the same technology the Mars rover uses to analyze rocks, ChipCHECK allows rapid on-site identification of turbine particles to monitor equipment degradation.

Industry experts from Airbus, Boeing, Lilium and Pratt & Whitney share their views on the future of MRO, data ownership and what MRO issues keep them up at night.

Norman Baker, senior vice president, digital services for Airbus, talks Skywise and the digital solutions Airbus has on display at MRO Europe this year.

MRO students had the chance to attend this year's MRO Europe. Find out more about their experience at the show and what they are most excited about in the industry.

Growing use of electric propulsion by aircraft is likely to affect MRO, but the details and extent are hard to predict.

Vincent Gröne, project manager at Satair, talks about the company’s work with additive manufacturing, including training, certification and printing of flying parts and tools.

From the exhibition floor at ap&m Europe 2018, Phil Edwards, senior instructor and engineer for NDT at Testia demonstrates two of the company’s Smart NDT tools. The ThicknessTool is used for post-blend scanning and the Smart UE1 can perform ultrasonic and eddy current tests.

James Pozzi receives a demo of the Expert Teleportation hands-free remote collaboration tool at ap&m Europe 2018.

A demo of IFS' new Maintenix Line Planner and Fleet Planner software from the 2018 IFS World Conference.