Tablets could be a natural device for disseminating maintenance information.

Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Group is building a new hangar at Sharjah International Airport in the United Arab Emirates to expand its maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) service capabilities for freighter and passenger aircraft. The new hangar, expected to be fully operational by January, will be run by Volga-Dnepr Technics division through its local subsidiary, Volga-Dnepr Gulf Co.

Volga-Dnepr builds a hangar in the UAE to service passenger and cargo airlines.

The jigsaw pieces are coming together for a future “all-electric” commercial airliner by the second half of the 2020s. Seeking higher efficiencies, lower costs and easier maintenance, airframers and equipment manufacturers alike are pushing ahead with development of electrically powered replacements for today's pneumatic, mechanical and hydraulic systems.

Aviation groups are concerned that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will fail to issue foreign repair station certification rules by the year-end deadline the agency once projected.

Embraer has started negotiations with Kenya Airways to open the airframer’s second authorized service center in Africa.

ST Aerospace is reviewing its narrowbody maintenance facility in Panama, which is recording the lowest demand among the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider’s global facilities, says President Chang Cheow Teck. The MRO provider opened the Panama facility in 2007 to take advantage of lower labor costs in the region and access to local operators. While ST Aerospace hoped to take advantage of its global network, competitors from established MRO companies—Aeroman in El Salvador and Coopesa in Costa Rica—did not leave much space for a third provider.

The FAA has ordered Boeing 737 Next Generation operators to replace engine strut fluid draining systems.