AAR Corp. will provide airframe heavy maintenance service for Air Canada’s Airbus A320s under a letter of intent signed with the carrier. Should the deal proceed, AAR would provide scheduled maintenance and modifications for about 89 A320s through September 2017.

Aeronautical Engineers (AEI) reached an agreement with Bombardier Aerospace to “explore market interest” in CRJ200 freighter conversions because of the potential to broaden the scope to larger CRJ700s as well as developing a niche cargo market for up to 50-75 cargo variants of the smaller twinjet.

Evergreen Aviation Technologies plans to start constructing a fourth hangar in 2013 to keep pace with the fleet renewals of its 40 airline partners.

Garuda Indonesia’s maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) company, GMF AeroAsia, in December expects to start construction of a fourth hangar at Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. The company was hoping to lease a hangar at the airport, but now plans to appoint a contractor to build its own hangar, GMF AeroAsia President Director Richard Budihadianto told Aviation Week on the sidelines of a Garuda Indonesia event in Makassar Friday to mark the inaugural flight of the airline’s first Bombardier CRJ1000.

The FAA is urging transport category aircraft operators and repair stations to check inventories and maintenance records for windows and other glass parts that may have been part of an elaborate records falsification scheme by a former repair station in Florida.

Aviation Week & Space Technology spotlights 40 rising stars under the age of 40, including several involved in the aftermarket.

Lufthansa Technik (LHT) and GE Aviation have signed a long-term service agreement for General Electric CF6-80C2 and CF34-3, -8 and -10 engines. The deal encourages LHT to use more original equipment manufacturer (OEM) parts and material. It also gives the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider intellectual property technology transfer rights, so the companies can jointly develop repairs. Repairs developed by LHT will be approved by the OEM, rather than a designated engineering representative.

European MRO providers are facing tough times with the region’s economic outlook uncertain and industry trends making growth more difficult to achieve, prominent forecasters said at Aviation Week’s MRO Europe conference in Amsterdam.