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N E W S F O C U SOctober 2011

( p h o t o s : A i r b u s )

Digestpage 5

Contractspage 10

Peoplepage 13

Eventspage 13

HEADLINES

AFI KLM E&M WILLENTER A350 XWB AND 787MRO MARKETThe Air France KLM Board o Directors

has approved the order o 110 longhaulaircrat (50 rm orders and 60 options),

although it is still subject to the nalisation

o discussions with the manuacturers. As

part o the announcement, it was stated

that ‘within the ramework o this order,

Air France Industries KLM Engineering &

Maintenance is conrming its commitment

to position itsel as a key market player

or the maintenance o the aircrat and

the engines’.

The deal is made up o rm orders or 25

A350-900 XWBs and 25 787-9s, and options

or 35 A350-900 XWBs and 25 787-9s. The

rst 787-9 order will enter into service with

KLM in 2016 and the rst A350-900 with Air

France in 2018. Subsequently, both airlines

will operate both types o aircrat and by

2024, there will be 43 Airbus A350-900s and30 Boeing 787-9s between the two carriers.

While the A350-900s will be powered by

the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB – as it is the only

engine available on the aircrat – the 787

powerplant will be decided at a later stage.

LHT AND VAA EXTENDMRO CONTRACTSLuthansa Technik and Virgin Atlantic

Airways have signed an MoU covering the

introduction o a new eight-year contract

or C checks and CF6-80 thrust reverser

services or the airline’s Boeing 747-400

eet. These contracts are part o current

comprehensive negotiations between

the two companies to eectively bring

together these new agreements within

one new general terms agreement (GTA).The new GTA will consist o the thrust

reverser services or both the Trent 500

engines o Virgin’s Airbus A340 eet

and also or the CF6-80 engines o the

Boeing 747-400 eet, plus the C checks

or the 13 Boeing 747-400s. The C checks

will be perormed at Luthansa Technik

Maintenance International in Frankurt,

while the repair and overhaul services or

the thrust reversers will be carried out at



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Building a dream is one thing.Maintaining a dream is another.Lufthansa Technik — ready

to serve the Dreamliner.

More mobility for the world

the Airrame Related Component (ARC)

business unit in Hamburg.

Additionally, the two companies

are negotiating the early extension o

the current ve-year base maintenance

contract or the airline’s Airbus A340 eet

by a urther six years through to 2019. The

base maintenance services are carried out

at Luthansa Technik Philippines.

Speaking to MRO News Focus at MRO

Europe, Phil Maher, Director o Engineering

at VAA, said the introduction the Airbus

A380 would mean that some 747-400s

would be leaving the eet beore the end

o the agreement. He also added that

at present their replacement was under

active consideration.

LHT TO PROVIDE 787 COMPONENTSUPPORT FOR JALLuthansa Technik has signed a 10-year

total component support ( TCS) contract

with Japan Airlines (JAL), which has 35

Boeing 787s on order. Luthansa Technik

will take on the role o providing material

support, including repairs and logistics

services, rom the moment its rst aircrat

is delivered. Luthansa Technik will supply

its customers with materials rom Tokyo, as

well as rom its existing material locationsin Frankurt and Hamburg.

MNG TECHNIC START A300FREIGHTER CONVERSIONSMNG Technic will convert three Airbus

A300-600 passenger aircrat o MNG

Airlines into reighter conguration.

Work on the rst aircrat started inSeptember using the B/E Aerospace STC and

conversion kit. The contract is between the

airline and B/E Aerospace, with MNG Technic

acting as the supplier. The conversion

will require the removal o all passenger

equipment, major structural reinorcements

to the aircrat oor, and uselage and the

installation o an electrically powered main

deck large reighter door. The converted

reighter aircrat will be capable o

transporting a payload o up to 52 tons.

MNG Technic will become the rst andonly MRO in Turkey, and one o only a ew

MROs in the world, capable o passenger-to-

reighter conversion. It will also be the rst

and only MRO outside o the OEM to convert

A300-600 aircrat with EASA certication.

MTU ENTERS GE90 MRO MARKETMTU Maintenance Hannover has

succeeded in winning its rst GE90

maintenance contracts rom Air New

Zealand, Southern Air and V Australia, with

a combined value o approximately $550

million. The company obtained the MRO

license or the new engine type last year.

Air New Zealand has been a regular

customer o MTU Maintenance or

its CF6-80C2 engines since 2007. The

newly concluded 12-year deal covers 12

GE90-115B engines powering the airline’sve Boeing 777-300ER aircrat.

Southern Air, an MTU Maintenance

customer since 2002, has also concluded

an exclusive 12-year maintenance and

spare engine support contract covering all

present and uture GE90-110B engines in

the airline’s 777 Freighter eet. Southern

Air took delivery o its rst two 777

Freighters last year. The company will

take delivery o an additional two 777

Freighters in March and April 2012, and

is actively looking to add an additional

777 Freighters to its eet. The twocompanies also entered into a multi-year

agreement under which MTU will provide

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maintenance and spare engine support to

Southern Air’s CF6-80 engines or the our

747-400s it will be adding to its current

eet o 11 Boeing 747-200s starting

next year. MTU expects this partnership

will generate at least €150 million ($240

million) in revenues over the lietime o

the agreement.

The third airline to become a new

customer is V Australia, a subsidiary o Virgin

Australia. Under a long-term agreement,

the carrier will send its eet o GE90-115B

Growth engines powering its ve Boeing

777-300ERs to Hannover or maintenance.

NEW JV ENGINE VENTURE

IN CHINAPratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) and China

Aviation Engine Holdings Corporation Ltd

(AVIC Engine Holdings) have announced

the creation o a new joint venture to be

located in Zhuzhou, in the Province o

Hunan, People’s Republic o China.

The new maintenance, repair and

overhaul (MRO) will be called Zhuzhou

Tonghui Aero Engine Maintenance

Company (AEMC) and will provide

in-country maintenance, repair and

overhaul or civil-certied PT6A and PW100

series engines.

AEMC will provide MRO services to civil-

certied PT6A and PW100 engines installed

on civil turboprop aircrat operating in

the People’s Republic o China and on

civil-certied PT6A and PW100 engines

installed on Chinese OEM civil turboprop

aircrat operating in the Asia-Pacic region.

Capability will be created in phases,

starting with line maintenance, ollowed by

heavy maintenance and nally, overhaul.

Currently, P&WC has some 180 PT6A and

PW100 engines ying in China on Harbin

Y-12 and Xian MA60/600 turboprop aircrat.

The joint venture will be legally

structured through SAIC subsidiary General

Aviation Engine Company (GAEC) andUTC subsidiary United Technologies Far

East (UTFE). AEMC will be owned 75% by

GAEC and 25% by UTFE. The joint venture

agreement is or 25 years with an option

or renewal. AEMC’s board o directors

will consist o AVIC representatives and

P&WC representatives. P&WC will appoint

its general manager and AVIC will appoint

a chie nancial ofcer. The remainder o

the management team will be selected

collectively by the joint venture partners.

GAMECO BREAKS GROUNDON NEW HANGAR

Guangzhou Aircrat Maintenance

& Engineering Company (GAMECO), a

joint venture between China Southern

Airlines, South China International Aircrat

Engineering and Hutchison Aircrat

Maintenance Investment, has started

construction o its new Phase II Hangar at

the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport.

The new hangar is located to the south

o the current GAMECO hangar acility,

on approximately 63,240m², with the

total area o the buildings expected to be

approximately 66,840m² and a building

ootprint o approximately 24,107m². The

hangar itsel will be a steel truss structure,

oering approximately 14,800m² andproviding a total o eight maintenance

bays to accommodate narrowbody aircrat

(Airbus A320 Family and Boeing 737/757).

With a height o approximately 20m, it

will also be capable o accommodating

the 787 that will be introduced soon by

China Southern Airlines. In addition, the

maintenance apron area with 27,000m²

will also be able to accommodate another

two 757s and two 737/A320s. The total

investment or the new Phase II Hangar

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project is estimated to be $90 million and

is scheduled to be completed at the end

o 2012 with ull operation in the rst hal

o 2013.

Over the last two years, GAMECO has

implemented a strategy o expanding its

acilities and network, building additional

maintenance capabilities or new platorms

and components and growing interna-

tionally. It has established a 757 C check line

in Urumqi, established line maintenance at

Shanghai Pudong or the 777F and set up

a new base in ChongQing. The construction

o the new Phase II Hangar adds to this

strategy, so that with the completion o

the hangar project, GAMECO will have

18 maintenance bays available to meet the

growing demand o China Southern Airlineswith their rapid eet expansion as well as

supporting the increasing development

o domestic and international third

party business.

QANTAS A380 MAKEOVERFOR 747-400Qantas has stated work on an A$250

million ($247 million) project to

overhaul the interiors o nine Boeing

747-400 aircrat with the installation

o Airbus A380-style seats and in-ightentertainment units.

The work is being carried out at the

airline’s heavy maintenance acility at

Avalon. Each o the aircrat will be tted

with 364 seats: 58 business, 36 premium

economy and 270 economy. Other new

eatures include Panasonic on-demand

in-ight entertainment and a sel-service

snack bar in economy. The project will

see the current 747 cabin including seats,

electrical wiring, ttings, galleys and

in-ight entertainment stripped rom

the aircrat and brand new cabin ttings,in-ight entertainment and equipment

installed. It will take six weeks or the

interior o each aircrat to be overhauled,

with the rst recongured 747 returning

to service in October. The remaining eight

aircrat will be introduced across the

international network by the end o 2012.

Qantas will have a eet o 14 A380s and

nine recongured 747 aircrat by the end o

next year. The project has secured 120 jobs

at the Avalon engineering and maintenance

acility, with a urther 400 people being

employed on other work at the acility.

The project was awarded to Avalon ater

a competitive tender process and ater

beating strong competition rom overseas.

UTC ACQUIRES GOODRICHUnited Technologies Corporation has

reached agreement to purchase GoodrichCorporation or $127.50 per share in cash.

This equates to a total enterprise value o

$18.4 billion, including $1.9 billion in net

debt assumed.

United Technologies expects to nance the

transaction through a combination o debt

and equity issuance. The equity component

is expected to approximate 25% o the total.

The closing is subject to customary closing

conditions, including regulatory and Goodrich

shareholder approvals.

Following completion o thetransaction, United Technologies is

expected to have worldwide sales o

approximately $66 billion based on

projected 2011 results. The combined

company’s increased scale, nancial

strength and complementary products will

strengthen United Technologies’ position

in the aerospace and deence industry.

Goodrich is a global supplier o

systems and services to the aerospace

and deence industry. Its products include

aircrat landing gear, aircrat wheels

and brakes. With estimated 2011 saleso $8 billion, it serves a global customer

base with 27,000 employees worldwide

and is well-positioned or uture growth

based on its increased content on

leading new commercial and military

aircrat. The company’s broad position

across many platorms, combined with

increased airrame production rates, will

drive sustainable long-term atermarket

growth. United Technologies expects the

transaction will be accretive to earnings in

the second year.

BIOFUEL FLIGHTS IN BRAZILEmbraer and GE have carried out a series

o test ights with an EMBRAER 170

ying rom the Embraer’s Gavião Peixoto

acilities. The purpose o the tests was to

benchmark the operational characteristics

o the airplane and its GE CF34-8E engineswhen powered by hydro-processed esters

and atty acids (HEFA) uel under a broad

range o unique ight conditions. The

ights involved powering one o the two

GE engines with the maximum ASTM

permissible mix o 50% HEFA (derived rom

camelina) with Jet-A.

Following the recent approval o

biomass-based HEFA uels by ASTM,

Embraer and GE have stepped up their

eorts with the objective o supporting

the development o a broader range o sustainable biouels or aviation. With

these tests, both companies conrmed

that technical plans and procedures or

uture uels testing are robust, enabling

value-added and timely testing o

additional uels.

The series o ights, which happened

in August, set the stage or urther

biouel development programmes that

Embraer and GE will undertake with uel

produced rom additional eedstocks and

production pathways under consideration

by the industry. These uels are currentlyunder study by uel providers worldwide,

including many in Brazil.

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DIGEST

AAR has been selected by EADS EFW to

manuacture main deck cargo loading

systems or Airbus A300-600 and

A310-300 reighter conversions. Recent

purchase orders rom EADS EFW include

13 A300-600 systems. Deliveries will be

accomplished over the next 12 months.

The cargo systems will be manuactured by

AAR’s Cargo Systems division in Goldsboro,

North Carolina.

AAR has been selected to provide Unison

parts and support or Kansas Aviation

o Independence (KAI). The one-year

agreement is expected to generateapproximately $1 million in supplied parts.

The programme will be managed by

AAR Distribution, which recently became

the exclusive global atermarket distributor

or Unison products. AAR Distribution

operates as part o AAR’s Allen Asset

Management division, which provides

a ull range o supply chain, component

repair and parts distribution services to

the commercial aviation industry. The KAI

program consists o supplying repair kits

or turbine engine exciters, actory newexciters and various hardware to support

KAI’s overhaul activities. KAI specialises

in the overhaul and repair o engine

accessories on the General Electric CJ610,

CF700 and CF34; Pratt & Whitney JT15D,

PT6A, PT6T, PW100, PW300 and PW901;

and Rolls-Royce Allison M250 engines.

Abu Dhabi Aircrat Technologies

(ADAT) has opened its new Hangar 6. The

C-shaped triangular building can handle

up to three Airbus A380s simultaneously,

plus three A321-200s and two A320-100s.The new acility includes 25,300m² o clear

oor area, plus 3,100m² o ofce space,

4,300m² o workshops and a 2,700m²

mezzanine area. The new hangar will

help to double ADAT’s business. Each

hangar bay has dedicated satellite control

rooms, tool cribs and stores. Adaptable

teleplatorms are used instead o xed

docking and service pts in the oor supply

utilities including 400Hz electrical power,

compressed air, uel and water. The hangar

is ully air conditioned with vertical lit

doors to avoid the loss o conditioned

air, which is important during the hotter

summer months.

AELS is conducting a total end-o-lie

solution on three Boeing 737-300s in

Mexico City. All components that can be

reused on other aircrat will be removed,hazardous materials will be removed

and disposed o properly, and nally,

all three aircrat will be dismantled and

recycled. This project is in partnership

with JT Power (engines) and Spectrum

Aerospace (components).

Aeroinv.com, the atermarket supplier

o aircrat parts, has announced the

worldwide launch o its new web-store,

doubling the amount o stock in the last

three weeks to over $100 million with morearriving every week at the Singapore hub.

Customers can purchase new surplus

condition parts online within a ew

clicks on a 24/7 basis or overnight, daily,

weekly and C and D maintenance checks.

Following order conrmation, AOG parts

are dispatched within our hours rom

the hub in Singapore, which is managed

by DHL. Every step o the online order is

supported by a 24/7 UK-based customer

service team. Aeroinv.com’s regional sales

teams help customers all over the world

with choosing the right package deals anddiscussing urther opportunities such as

call-o packages and virtual warehousing

oering great value. The whole concept

o the aeroinv.com online e-commerce

solution is to simpliy the procurement

procedure, to make end-to-end ordering

more efcient, and to ast-track the request

or quotation, generating a user-riendly

experience. All parts purchased online

go through a stringent quality inspection

process and have the correct trace

paperwork available to view online.

Aeroman is adding a new hangar that

will accommodate three new lines or

narrowbody aircrat at the maintenance

acility in El Salvador, or both existing

aircrat (Airbus 320s and Boeing 737s)

and the uture Airbus A320 Neo. The

expansion will add about 7,600m² to theexisting 27,360m² acility, bringing the

total number o narrowbody airrame

maintenance bays to 11, ollowing

completion o the work. Construction

began on 1 September and is scheduled

to be completed by April 2012. In keeping

with the advanced architectural design o

the building, the new extension will also

be built on an innovative structural system

that will acilitate accelerated construction

work on the hangar.

Air Astana has opened a new interna-

tionally approved engineering acility

in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The acility is

equipped to handle non-destructive

testing and repairs to wheels, batteries and

aircrat structures. Air Astana’s investment

in the acility will save it over $1 million in

the rst year, as it becomes independent o

oreign maintenance service providers.

The acility is a milestone in Air

Astana’s plan to create a leading aircrat

maintenance centre serving central Asia

and the CIS. This process will see the airlineprogressively upgrading its engineering

capabilities to the point where it will

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www.fokkeraircraftservices.com

Finding corrosion. Finding solutions.

be able to undertake complex aircrat

maintenance services – C checks – on both

its own aircrat and those o other carriers

by the end o 2012. Brake and composite

material shops, as well as structural

maintenance workshops will be ready or

certication by EASA by the end o 2011.

Additionally, the airline is investigating

the possibility o creating calibration and

hydrostatic laboratories.

airberlin technik in Düsseldor has started

its rst training scheme since its ormation

in April 2011 by the merger o airberlin

Technik, LTU Technik and dba’s technical

department. A total o 32 trainees joined

three vocational training courses, or

aircrat maintenance technicians, avionicstechnicians and ofce clerks.

Airstream International Group has

been appointed by the UK Civil Aviation

Authority to exclusively remarket an

ex-ItAli Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-82

aircrat (msn 49215). It is being oered or

sale or part-out.

A J Walter Aviation has agreed to purchase

our ex-Germania Boeing 737-300 aircrat

rom Pembroke Capital Aircrat (Shannon)Limited or part-out. This purchase has

enabled AJW to ast-track the induction o

engines into its operational plan and is the

rst o several planned acquisitions that

will help to supplement the company’s

expanding spares inventories. With a

positive step change in its business, AJW

has secured additional unding specically

to acquire larger assets such as engines

or short-term lease and teardown, and

airrames or part-out, preerably B737NG

and later generation A320 Family aircrat,

although the company also has an interestin Airbus A330 and Boeing 747-400 and

777 aircrat. The 737-300 material is already

being allocated to AJW’s regional hubs in

Dubai, Los Angeles, Miami, Singapore and

across Europe – to meet the daily demands

o customers worldwide – including AJW’s

own eet o over 375 aircrat under contract.

Avianor has entered into an exclusive

sales agreement with Luthansa German

Airlines to oer a wide range o surplus

seats to its clients in North, Central and

South America, as well as India. The current

upgrade programme at Luthansa will

make over 9,000 seats available rom

Airbus A320, A319 and A321 aircrat. In

addition, seats rom Airbus A330 and

Boeing 737 and 747 upgrades will be

available in the near uture. Avianor plans

to market the seats to its client base o operators and leasing companies as well

having a large inventory that will enable

it to enter into loan/lease or exchange

programs oten needed by airlines to

better execute upgrades.

BAE Systems and Saywell International

are celebrating 10 years o continued

spares support or the BAe 748 twin

turboprop transport airliner. In September

2001, BAE Systems appointed Saywell

International to be their sole distributoro spares or the aircrat. Saywell’s own

inventory o spares at its Worthing, UK

headquarters, supported by their Miami

ofce/warehouse and Vancouver and

Singapore regional ofces or the South

American, North American and Asian

markets respectively, was boosted at the

time by the transer o a signicant spares

stock previously held by BAE Systems.

Since that time, Saywell International

has ensured the efcient and timely supply

o spares to BAe 748 customers worldwide

in an operation that is closely monitoredby BAE Systems to ensure high standards

o service. Over the ten-year period, more

than 30,000 BAe 748 spares transactions

have been made by Saywell, worth in

excess o $40 million.

Whilst Saywell International is

responsible or continuing spares sales

and supply or the BAe 748, BAE Systems

Regional Aircrat at Prestwick, Scotland

still provides technical support and liaison

services or the aircrat, nearly 50 years

ater it entered service in 1962. Around 70

BAE Systems-built aircrat remain in service

worldwide with over 20 operators, primarily

in Canada, South America, Asia and Arica.

Operators include airlines, cargo carriers

and air orces. In India, a urther 50 aircrat

o the HAL-built aircrat are in service with

branches o the Indian Armed Forces.

Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services

has received certication rom the State

Aviation Administration o Ukraine to

conduct line and base maintenance or

Boeing 767-200/300 aircrat in support o

Ukrainian operators.

British Airways Engineering has taken on

more than 100 apprentices, with 150 more

beginning college courses with a view to

joining the airline next year.

The airline began running two separateapprenticeship schemes, in conjunction

with local colleges, last year. The rst

scheme, an industrial apprenticeship, sees

students complete a year at college beore

joining the airline ull time. There are now

83 industrial apprentices at Heathrow. The

second, an engineering business support

scheme, allows apprentices to join the

airline rom day one, learning support

unctions including inventory management,

and 19 business support apprentices have

now joined the airline. The drive to recruit

apprentices is part o the airline’s strategyto create a ‘talent pipeline’, supplying the

engineers o the uture.

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Cargo Aircrat Management (CAM), a

subsidiary o Air Transport Services Group,

has committed to purchase a Boeing

767-300ER rom Qantas Airways. ATSG said

it anticipates that CAM will take delivery

o its th 767-300 aircrat rom Qantas

in the ourth quarter, and schedule it or

conversion rom passenger to standard

reighter conguration by mid-year 2012.

CAM owns our other Boeing 767-300

aircrat and 36 Boeing 767-200 aircrat, all o

which are in service as standard reighters

or undergoing conversion rom passenger

to reighter conguration.

Delta TechOps has received ISO 9001

certication or its Engine Maintenance

and Landing Gear shops. Delta TechOpsis one o only a ew airline MRO service

providers to achieve this certication,

which is an internationally tested

ramework designed to manage an

organisation’s processes and help generate

a high quality product that satises

customers’ expectations. The airline

received ISO 9001 certication or its

Component Maintenance shop in 2008.

Etihad has a second emale Emirati

graduate engineer, Loulua Abdulla SalemAbdulla Mohamed, who completed the

airline’s engineering programme that

oers UAE nationals the opportunity to

obtain a diploma in Aviation Engineering

Technology (airrame and aero engines

or avionics). On completion o the

programme, trainees received an approved

GCAA higher diploma in Aviation

Engineering including on-the-job training.

The FAA is proposing civil penalties

against Aviation Technical Services (ATS)

and Alaska Airlines.

ATS, o Everett, Washington, is being

hit or $1.1 million or allegedly making

improper repairs to 44 Southwest Airlines

Boeing 737-300s. The FAA alleges that ATS

ailed to accomplish all the work required by

three FAA airworthiness directives calling or

ve repetitive inspections and a one-timeinspection to nd and repair atigue

cracks in the uselage skins o the planes.

The inspections are part o Southwest’s

Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance

Program. Ater the inspections, ATS allegedly

ailed to install asteners in all the rivet

holes within the time specied or the task.

The drying time o the required sealant

dictates the window available to complete

installation o the asteners. The aircrat

involved returned to service between 1

December 2006 and 18 September 2009.The FAA noted that the Southwest 737-300

that suered a uselage crown ailure in

April 2011 is not one o the aircrat listed in

the proposed civil penalty and ATS did not

perorm inspection and repair work on that

aircrat prior to the April uselage ailure.

Alaska Airlines is acing a $590,000 civil

penalty or allegedly operating a Boeing

737-400 on 2,107 ights when it was

not in compliance with Federal Aviation

Regulations. On 18 January 2010, a ight

deck ceiling re occurred in a 737-400 while

it was parked at the gate at Anchorage

International Airport. Investigators

determined the re was caused by chaed

wiring that had resulted rom improper

installation o a hose clamp. Alaska had most

recently perormed maintenance in the

burned area in August 2008. The 737-400

maintenance manual includes an explicitwarning about proper installation o the

hose clamp. Alaska subsequently discovered

the same problem existed on nine other

737-400s in its eet and made corrections.

There were no other res. Both companies

have 30 days rom the receipt o the FAA’s

enorcement letter to respond to the agency.

FL Technics has recently extended its

partnership with Europe Airpost to provide

comprehensive heavy maintenance services

or the airline’s three Boeing 737 Classicaircrat, including but not limited to C and D

checks, components supply, and corrosion

prevention programmes.

GKN Aerospace has secured a contract

with easyJet worth over $1 million to

provide replacement Airbus A320 series

ront windshields through to the end o

2014. The design protects against moisture

ingress, reducing the risk o delamination

and electrical system ailure that can lead

to premature windshield removals and

unscheduled aircrat downtime. Productionor this contract will take place at the GKN

Aerospace acility in Kings Norton, UK. GKN ( p h o t o : G K N

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Aerospace already supplies easyJet with

A320 series cockpit lateral windows, wing

tip lenses and passenger cabin windows to

A320 series operators worldwide.

GKN Aerospace has announced the launch

o a ‘one stop’ repair service or xed- and

rotary-wing exible uel tanks which

aims to halve the repair times typically

experienced by operators across the UK

and the rest o Europe. The new service,

the only acility o its kind in the UK, will

oer EASA Design Organisation Part 21

approved repair o all types o exible uel

tank, including sel-sealing, crashworthy

and explosion suppressing products.

The service will operate alongside GKN

Aerospace’s uel system manuacturingactivity in Portsmouth, UK.

GMF AeroAsia and the Municipal

Government o Surakarta have entered

into a cooperation agreement in the eld

o aircrat maintenance human resources

procurement capacity development.

GMF AeroAsia can now make use o the

Surakarta Municipal Government’s Solo

Technopark to educate aircrat technicians.

GMF has also been cooperating with

several universities such as STPI Curug,Politeknik Bandung, ITB, and Universitas

Nurtanio to ull the national demand or

aircrat technicians. Aside rom working

with universities, GMF has also developed

as an Approved Maintenance Training

Organization (AMTO) to educate uture

aircrat technicians.

Richard Budihadianto, GMF AeroAsia

CEO, said: “This cooperation is a

breakthrough by GMF to meet the lack o

aircrat technicians in Indonesia. In 2012, the

need is estimated to be 10,000 individuals.”

GMF AeroAsia has repainted a Boeing

737-900 o Jet Airways.

Luthansa Technik has handed over the

rst o our Bombardier Global 5000 aircrat

to be delivered by the end o 2011 to the

Special Air Mission Wing o the German

Federal Ministry o Deence (BMVg). They

join two Airbus ACJ319s handed over in

2010 and two Airbus A340-300 longhaul

aircrat in the rst hal o 2011 – all via

Luthansa Technik.

The cabin o the Global 5000 aircrat

conorms largely to the standard

equipment oered by Bombardier or

this aircrat type. The colours have been

matched to the interior design o the Airbus

ACJ319 and A340. The cabin has seating

or up to 13 persons and is designed to

be disabled-riendly. Various additional

measures were carried out to specicallyull the requirements o the German Air

Force. Consequently, it is possible, as in the

larger Airbus aircrat, to install a patient

transport unit, equipped with intensive care

acilities such as additional oxygen and a

separate power supply, and thus use the

Global 5000 aircrat to transport wounded

and ill persons. Secure communications

equipment has also been installed.

In addition to the procurement o the

new aircrat, Luthansa Technik is also

responsible or the technical and logisticalsupport o the new medium-haul and

longhaul aircrat. For the Global 5000

aircrat, this role will be taken on by

Luthansa Bombardier Aviation Services

(LBAS) in Berlin-Schoeneeld. The technical

services covered by the 10-year contract

include service management, maintenance

o the aircrat, engines (together with

Rolls-Royce Germany), equipment and

spare parts supply. It also comprises

the preparation and maintenance o

aeronautical and technical documentation.

Luthansa Technik Soa, a joint

venture between Luthansa Technik and

Bulgarian Aviation Group, is expanding its

narrowbody hangar capacity with a new

two-bay construction or heavy checks.

Additionally, a separate lightweight hangar

will be constructed and used or line

maintenance operations and lighter checks.

The €15 million ($20 million) investment

nearly doubles the MRO capacities or the

Boeing 737 and the Airbus A320 amilies to

our aircrat in parallel. The rst bay o the

new 5,200m² hangar will be operational in

the rst quarter next year and the second

one will ollow a ew months later. With the

new capacity, the number o employees

will increase by more than 150 people to

about 500 until the end o 2012. Since its

oundation in 2007, Luthansa Technik Soa

has already carried out more than 60 heavychecks on aircrat o the Airbus A320 and the

Boeing 737 amilies or Luthansa, Bulgaria

Air and other customers, including bmi

baby, Nordavia, Oman Air and Ural Airlines.

Monarch Aircrat Engineering Limited

(MAEL) will continue with the Boeing

GoldCare programme and is committed

to providing line and base maintenance

capability or the 787 despite the decision

by its parent company, The Monarch

Group, to terminate its order or six aircrat.

The Part M-approved Management

Services team o Monarch Aircrat

Engineering Limited (MAEL) has

concluded a contract to assist DHL

with the regulatory approval process in

obtaining a Certicate o Airworthiness or

the addition o a Boeing 757 reighter to

the UK register.

Pratt & Whitney has signed an Engine

Management Program agreement with

Cargolux Airlines to provide its providingon-wing engine health monitoring. Under

the agreement, Pratt & Whitney Global

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Service Partners will use its web-based

Advanced Diagnostics & Engine

Management (ADEM) tools to provide

engine perormance monitoring services

or the airline’s eet, powered by

PW4056 engines.

Pratt & Whitney has signed a ve-year

agreement with Wizz Air to use the

EcoPower engine wash system on its

eet o Airbus A320 aircrat at Budapest

International Airport and will also have

mobile wash capability to perorm washes

at airports within its route structure.

Rheinland Air Service (RAS) has

announced a acility expansion and ATR

approval. The new and expanded acilities atits Dusseldor Moenchengladbach base can

accommodate up to six ATR aircrat simulta-

neously, including 400m² o workshop

space; 200m² o ofce space; 400m² o

parts storage space, a new paint shop;

plus 200m² o sta space. Representing an

investment o $1 million, the expansion

added an additional 1,200m² to the 4,000m²

RAS acility. RAS has also received ATR repair

and overhaul approval certication or

ight controls – the second authorisation

in Europe. RAS also plans to build anothermaintenance hangar within the next 12-18

months, doubling its capacity.

Sanad Aero Solutions (Sanad) has entered

into new component inventory agreements

valued in excess o $50 million with Mubadala

Development Company-owned companies

Abu Dhabi Aircrat Technologies (ADAT)

andSR Technics. The companies are working

together to expand Mubadala Aerospace’s

global MRO oering by including spare

components and engines in the integrated

product solution. The additional spareinventories will be utilised by ADAT and SR

Technics to expand services or a number o

key customers including Etihad Airways,

Onur Air and Maximus Air Cargo.

Satair has signed a distribution agreement

covering aircrat escape slide lighting

battery packs, cabin crew ashlight

batteries and slide lighting test equipment

produced by BaseWest.

ST Aerospace andSIM University (UniSIM)

have signed an MoU to co-operate in

the enhancement o education and

development o manpower or Singapore’s

aerospace industry. This MoU, eective

or 10 years, is an extension o an existing

collaboration between ST Aerospace and

UniSIM rst established in March 2008.

Under the MoU, ST Aerospace will play anadvisory role to contribute industry expertise

to the aerospace degree programmes

oered by UniSIM. ST Aerospace will also

oer students enrolled in these programmes

opportunities to gain amiliarisation and

practical experience at its acility. Under

the scope o collaboration, ST Aerospace

and UniSIM will also work together in

the areas o scholarships, research and

knowledge-sharing. In addition, both parties

will undertake associate teaching activities at

each other’s acilities.ST Aerospace is a strong proponent in

the training and development o aerospace

proessionals. Apart rom collaborating

with educational institutions, ST Aerospace

has its own training initiatives including

an internal training and certication

programme and a dedicated technical

training centre in Singapore. To support

operational needs, the centre has trained

about 1,400 technicians in mechanical and

avionics trades and 370 licensed aircrat

engineers over the years.

TAM MRO has renewed its Transport

Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA) certication

to provide services or aircrat registered

in Canada and their components. The new

authorisation is valid until 2012. Issued

or the rst time in August 2010, the

certication rom TCCA authorises TAM

MRO to perorm maintenance, as well as

specialised services such as electrolytic

deposition, welding and carpeting, on

the ollowing aircrat models registered in

Canada: Airbus A318, A319, A320, A321,

A330; Boeing 767, ATR 42 and Fokker-100.

TIMCO Aviation Services has announced

that its base maintenance operation at

Macon, Georgia, has been selected by

the State o Georgia Department o Labor

or its annual Award o Excellence, which

recognises employees with no days awayrom work due to workplace injuries or

illnesses or more than 250 days.

Turkish Airlines is tting two Boeing

737-900(ER) aircrat will two additional

uel tanks to allow them to be used

primarily on Arican routes. Ater delivery

in Seattle, PATS Aircrat Systems in

Georgetown, Delaware will t the tanks

beore entry into service in November

and December.

United Continental Holdings and

the International Brotherhood o

Teamsters (IBT) are to return to

negotiations in advance o mediation

scheduled with the National Mediation

Board in November. During these

negotiations, the company and IBT will

ocus on reaching an agreement covering

the approximately 4,700 technicians at

the United Airlines subsidiary. United

and Continental employ more than

8,300 technicians who are represented

by the Teamsters. Continental techniciansratied their collective bargaining

agreement in November 2010.

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CONTRACTS

AIRFRAMES

Aeroplex o Central Europe has signed an

agreement with Norwegian Air Shuttle

covering winter checks and ROW 44 internet

access modication works on 34 Boeing

737-800 aircrat. The rst aircrat arrived in

September and the maintenance line will

be nished in the middle o March 2012.

Aeroplex has already modied 12 737-800s

with ROW 44 designed kit, some o them in

Budapest and the rest in Stavanger. Aeroplex

was a pioneer in these works, as the company

was the rst who installed this system to B737

aircrat in Europe.

The entire 14-person sta o AeroStrategy

has been hired by ICF International,

a provider o consulting services and

technology solutions to government and

commercial clients. The move reinorces ICF’s

aviation business, ICF SH&E, with additional

services and an expanded client base.

AeroStrategy sta will now be working under

the ICF SH&E name. Among the sta joining

ICF SH&E as vice presidents are AeroStrategy

partners and co-ounders Kevin Michaelsand David Stewart.

Airborne Maintenance and Engineering

Services (AMES) has completed heavy

maintenance services or the rst o ve

DHL-owned Boeing 767-200PCF aircrat,

in advance o their conversion to special

reighter conguration. The rst aircrat was

completed ahead o schedule. Two additional

aircrat are currently undergoing similar

heavy maintenance and modications to

be completed in 2011. The ourth and th

aircrat are scheduled to be completed inthe rst quarter o 2012. Apart rom these

ve aircrat, AMES previously completed

heavy maintenance on our DHL-owned 767

reighters. In addition to these, AMES maintains

13 other 767 reighters leased to DHL by Cargo

Aircrat Management, another subsidiary o

AMES’ parent company, Air Transport Services

Group.

Alsalam Aircrat Company has signed

a new maintenance contract with

Saudi Aramco or a D check on a Boeing737NG aircrat.

AvCrat Technical Services has announced

a long-term heavy maintenance agreement

with Caribbean carrier CAIRE Air Antilles

Express. The new agreement ollows the

redelivery ve days ahead o schedule o a

second ATR 42 rom a C check at AvCrat’s

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina acility. Air

Antilles Express operates three ATR 42s on

high-requency regional routes linking ve

Caribbean islands rom a base in Guadeloupe,

French West Indies.

Air Antilles Express was AvCrat’s rst

ATR customer, contracting or an initial

heavy check in February 2010. Since then

AvCrat’s ATR customer base has grown to

seven airlines and leasing companies in

North America, the Caribbean and Europe.

Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services signed

a contract with Air Italy or a 4C check on a

Boeing 767-300ER in September.

Coopesa in San Jose, Costa Rica, has

signed a contract with GOL Linhas Aéreas

Inteligentes to perorm a C check, structural

inspection and external paint on a Boeing

737-700 being returned o lease to ILFC.

JorAMCo will perorm D checks on six

Boeing 737NGs operated by Jet Airways,including landing gear and thrust reverser

removal and installation and paint.

ENGINES

Delta TechOps has signed a ve-year,

exclusive time and materials with at rates

agreement with Air Canada to provide repair

and overhaul services to the airline’s entire

eet o Pratt & Whitney PW4060 engines,

three o which are already inducted at Delta

TechOps. The 18 engines power nine Boeing

767 aircrat with our spares.

Dublin Aerospace has signed a ve-year

contract with Jet Time o Denmark or the

loan and overhaul o Honeywell 131-9B and

85 Series APUs tted to its eet o Boeing

737NG and Classic aircrat, respectively.

GE Aviation and Iberia Maintenance

have signed an agreement that will provide

Iberia with OEM technical support or

its maintenance and repair services on

CF34-8C/E engines. This agreement expandsIberia’s current overhaul capability o the

CF34 engine amily and licenses GE’s engine

maintenance technology. Iberia is also

working with GE to develop a high-pressure

compressor blade repair shop or the

CFM56-5/7 amilies. The airline is in the nal

stages o GE certication.

Iberia Maintenance has won a contract

rom British Airways or the maintenance,

repair and overhaul o CFM56-5B engines

powering the two 32-seat, all-business

class Airbus A318 aircrat that operate rom

London City to New York-JFK.

International Aero Engines has been

selected by China Eastern Airlines to

provide V2500 engines to power 50

new A320 series aircrat. The deal also

includes comprehensive long-term engineatermarket services. Deliveries will commence

in August 2012 and continue to 2015, and

China Eastern will employ the new V2500s to

expand the capacity o its eet.

MTU Maintenance Zhuhai and Japanese

low-cost carrier Solaseed Air (ormerly

Skynet Asia Airways until 1 July 2011) have

signed an initial ve-year maintenance

agreement or CFM56-3 engines powering

Boeing 737-400s operated by the airline. I

renewed or a urther ve years, it will alsocover the CFM56-7 engines powering 13

Boeing 737NG jets that are currently going

into service with the airline.

PowerJet and Yakutia Airlines have signed

a PowerLie Customer Support Agreement

or our SaM146 propulsion systems (engine,

equipment and nacelle) to power two

Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircrat (SSJ100). The

rst aircrat entry into service is planned or

2012. The agreement plans out the general

contractual terms to be applied between

Yakutia Airlines and PowerJet concerningproduct support, documentation, training,

on-site support and engine warranties.

Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners’

Shanghai Engine Center recently delivered

its rst overhauled CFM56 engine to Jetstar

Pacic Airlines. The engine is the rst the

Shanghai Engine Center has delivered to an

overseas customer in the Asia Pacic region.

Rolls-Royce has signed a letter o intent

with Skymark Airlines Japan to provideTrent 900 engines to power six Airbus A380

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engine service and support. The aircrat will

enter into service in 2014.

The company says the Trent 900s

Skymark has ordered will incorporate

enhancements in design and materials that

will yield almost a 2% improvement in uel

efciency compared with those in service

today. It has also won a contract rom TUI

Travel to provide Trent 700 engines to

power two Airbus A330 aircrat, which will

also be covered by TotalCare long-term

support services. The aircrat will be

operated by TUI’s subsidiary Corsairfy and

the contract also includes TotalCare services

or two additional A330s already in service

with the airline.

COMPONENTS

AFI KLM E&M and Armavia have decided to

extend the provisions o a contract signed in

June 2010 to the airline’s entire eet o two

A320-200s and our A319-100s – including

the presidential jet. The contract now covers

component support services, including

pool access, repairs, and the provision o a

main base kit at the carrier’s Yerevan hub.

The initial agreement was or component

support services or one Airbus A320-200.

A J Walter Aviation is to provide power-

by-the-hour support to Air Europa or

its Airbus A330 Trent engine component

accessories. This ve-year agreement or

two aircrat is AJW’s rst contract with Air

Europa and includes the location o a main

base kit in Madrid.

A J Walter Aviation has signed a three-year

Airbus A320 components power-by-the-hour

and Main Base Kit lease contract with RAK

Airways o Ras Al Kaimah, UAE. AJW already

has comprehensive Boeing 737 stock sitedin its regional acility in the Dubai Free Zone

which supports daily spares requirements

or local airlines. This new contract will be

managed out o its Middle Eastern ofce and

will include an additional location in Dubai

o extensive A320 inventory, which will mark

a signicant increase in AJW’s investment

in the UAE. RAK Airways will also benet

rom AJW’s 24/7 AOG service across its route

network including Cairo, Jeddah, Doha,

Calicut, Dhaka and Chittagong.

Fokker Services has signed its ourth and

th operators in the Americas to use a

FLYFokker program, which covers all logistics

and technical support. It is being used by

Air Panama to start operating its two newly

acquired Fokker 70 ormer corporate aircrat,

including on-site technical training and a

modication to change the cabin rom a

48- to a 72-seat conguration. Furthermore,

a complete ABACUS orward lease and

exchange programme has been agreed or

all major rotables, APU, landing gear and

brakes. Air Panama has been a customer o

Fokker Services or many years, operating

the Fokker F-27 aircrat on a eeder service

or a major international courier company.

InselAir, based in Curaçao, is using ABACUS

or its eet o three operational Fokker 50s.

The airline has purchased our aircrat, using

the ourth as a spares source.

Goodrich Corporation has been selected

by Mesa Air Group to provide landing

gear maintenance services or its eet o

Bombardier CRJ700 and CRJ900 aircrat.

The multi-year agreement will encompass

all scheduled repair and overhaul services

including the use o Goodrich-owned

rotable landing gear assets.

Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation and

Luthansa Technik have signed a long-termcontract or providing MRO services on

Hamilton Sundstrand’s components or the

Boeing 787, including bleedless systems and

liquid cooling components. The agreement

also enables Luthansa Technik to become

an ofcial member o Hamilton Sundstrand’s

Boeing 787 MRO supplier network.

Luthansa Technik Soa andBulgaria Air

have signed a ten-year Total Component

Support (TCS) component supply contract,

including local stock in Soa as well as access

to a component pool or Bulgaria Air’s AirbusA319 and A320 as well as or the Boeing 737

Classic eet. The agreement also contains

line and eet base maintenance or the

nine aircrat. Some o the Boeing aircrat

are partially operated in Russia. The base

maintenance support includes light C checks

and heavy D check events. Base maintenance

is provided directly in the Bulgarian capital

Soa, whereas line maintenance services

are oered in Soa, Varna and Burgas. Both

companies have already established a

partnership via the membership o BulgariaAir o the Bulgarian Aviation Group, which

is the joint venture partner o Luthansa

Technik at Luthansa Technik Soa.

Sabena technics has extended its

collaboration with Compagnie Aricaine

d’Aviation (CAA), the main carrier o the

Democratic Republic o Congo (DRC) rom

its eet o three Airbus A320s to support

two newly acquired Fokker 100 aircrat.

Sabena technics’ services to CAA include

pool access with advanced standard

exchange, component repair management

per ying hour, APU support and continuing

airworthiness management. The services have

also been extended to A320 brakes support

rom Sabena technics’ Brussels acility.

SR Technics andAir Europa have signed

a ve-year contract extension rom 2013or integrated component solution (ICS)

support. The new contract covers Airbus

A330, Boeing 767 and 737-800 aircrat and

includes component exchange, maintenance

and repair, and logistics services. Under the

agreement, Air Europa will also have access

to the SR Technics components pool and

component management services, covering

a complete package o components

including APUs and engine LRUs. SR Technics

will manage component inventory pools in

Zurich, Switzerland.

TP Aerospace has been awarded a ve-year

ull service wheels and brakes Cycle Flat

Rate (CFR) contract by Enter Air, Poland’s

largest charter airline. The contract, initially

covering six aircrat, includes component

maintenance, pool access, onsite lease

inventory, logistics and warehousing.

VAS Aero Services and JetBlue Airways

have signed an agreement that appoints

VAS as JetBlue’s consignee or the

redistribution o select A320 and EMBRAER190 spare parts. VAS will provide, among

other things, logistics and sales resources

or various spare airrame and engine

material over the next three years.

LINE MAINTENANCE

FL Technics has added line maintenance

services or Yakutia-owned Boeing

757-200 and Boeing 737NG aircrat at

Krasnodar International Airport, Russia.

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technical handling agreements with Alitalia

andXL Airways France to provide support

or Airbus A330 aircrat at Male International

Airport in the Maldives. The work or XL

Airways France will take place throughout

the winter season when XL Airways France

operates ights to Male rom Paris-CDG.

MAEL has been supporting the company in

Male or ve years. It will also provide support

to Turkish Airlines’ twice-weekly Airbus

A310 reighter ights into London Gatwick.

AVIONICS

SOFTWARE

Commsot has signed a ve-year deal withDubai-based consultancy and airworthiness

specialist Airstream Aviation to use OASES

maintenance management sotware. The

company also has operations in Nigeria and

will use OASES to support its Continuing

Airworthiness Management Organisation

(CAMO) and inventory management

operations.

Component Control has been selected

by AFI KLM E&M to provide Quantum

Control sotware to urther support itsTotal Component Care programme. AFI

KLM E&M subsidiary EPCOR has been using

Quantum Control or over 6 years. AFI KLM

E&M’s Quantum Control MRO and Logistics

solution will operate on a highly scalable

and secure Oracle database and includes the

ollowing integrated modules: Aeroxchange

and ILS integration to provide users with the

ability to receive and respond to customer

inquiries using either broadcast and/or

quote requests; Document Imaging and

Shipping Manager; Contact Manager, a

highly congurable CRM (customer relationsmanagement) tool that is seamlessly

integrated with Quantum Control’s

entire suite o modules; Forms Designer

to customise orms to each customer’s

needs; Rental and Leasing module; and

Oracle-driven Event Manager or automated

reporting, e-mailing and axing to customers,

suppliers and internal users.

CORENA has announced that its partner,

AeroSot Systems, has signed an agreement

with Icelandair Technical Services. AeroSotis using a customer-specic extended version

o CORENA-developed core technology as

the basis or their DigiDOC digital content

management solution. At Icelandair Technical

Services, DigiDOC is being integrated with

Mxi’s Maintenix, in a Task Card solution

to be ollowed by maintenance planning

documents and other OEM manuals.

Mxi Technologies has announced that

its Maintenix sotware has gone live at

Qantas Maintenance and Engineering in

support o the rst-phase implementation

o the organisation’s engineering system

replacement project. The project, with the

Maintenix sotware at its core, represents an

ambitious business-driven IT transormation

o maintenance and engineering operations

at the airline. The Maintenix sotware provides

the organisation with a solution that supportsreal-time access to maintenance inormation

on any aircrat rom anywhere in the world.

In addition to real-time data recording and

reporting, detailed historical records and

modelled uture projections oer unparalleled

visibility into the use and maintenance

requirements o the Qantas eet.

Mxi Technologies has launched Maintenix

within the Cloud to seamlessly support user

training and complement the organisa-

tion’s training and education service suite.Ofcially launched in mid-July, the response

to the new, Cloud-based service has been

overwhelmingly positive with course

participants noting that the Cloud-based

delivery ully replicated a production

environment, while acilitating a more

meaningul and exible training experience

than traditional computer-based instruction.

The accessible and scalable inrastructure

aorded by the Cloud, allows Mxi customers

to experience Maintenix in a ully-interactive

training environment true to a live

maintenance production system. Using theAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Mxi is able

to deliver concurrent training to a virtually

unlimited number o geographically

dispersed attendees while benetting rom

a reduction in training inrastructure setup

costs or both the customer and Mxi.

Although initially launched in support

o user training, this rst, Cloud-based

instance o Maintenix is the same ull

production sotware currently used post

go-live by Mxi customers and signals the

advent o MRO sotware deployment in theCloud to support mission-critical airline

maintenance operations.

Mxi Technologies has announced the

commercial availability o Maintenix

Version 7.2 (v7.2). This latest oering

introduces the Electronic Logbook API,

which extends the reach o Maintenix

maintenance execution capabilities right

out to the onboard aircrat logbooks that

are currently emerging in the marketplace.

The API that Mxi has developed is in line

with the Air Transport Association (ATA)

DSE specication and can support any

third party electronic logbook product

that conorms to this open standard.

Furthermore, Mxi has worked extensively

to create the industry’s rst logbook/MRO

pairing to actually implement the ATA DSE

standard together with Boeing and their

electronic logbook product line.

Swiss-AviationSotware has signed South

Arican Airways as its 100th customer or

its AMOS sotware. The project dates back

to a request or proposal by the airline in

2008, ollowed by selection and a proo o

concept project in 2010 that allowed both

sides to combine the airline’s requirements

with AMOS capabilities. Numerous

opportunities or uture improvements

were identied and a set o customisations,

mainly related to production planningand control, were dened. Approximately

1,700 users at SAA and SAA Technical will

work with AMOS ater the Go-Live which is

expected to happen in about 18 months.

TRAX USA has been selected by Global

Aviation Technical Solutions to provide

the latest e4 version o its MRO sotware to

manage its MRO supply organisation or

the new Boeing 747-8.

NEW PRODUCTS

BUSINESS

Airbus has announced that all conditions

or completion o the oer to acquire

the shares o Satair have been satised.

At the expiry o the oer, Airbus has

received valid acceptances representing

approximately 96.7% o the shares o Satair

on a ully-diluted basis. The acquisition

o Satair will help Airbus to strengthen its

service business, which is a key elemento the EADS Vision 2020. Consistent with

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growth o Airbus’ Material Management

division and is an opportunity to develop

new services through the combined

entity in both the civil and governmental

markets. Airbus intends to acquire all o

the remaining shares o Satair by way o a

compulsory redemption.

BTMU Capital Corporation (BTMUCC),

through BTMUCC’s subsidiary Engine

Lease Finance Corporation (ELFC),

has entered into an agreement with

Macquarie Bank ) to acquire 47 aircrat

engine assets. The transaction is expected

to be completed in the ourth quarter o

2011. Upon completion o the transaction,

ELFC’s owned and managed asset portolio

will include close to 300 aircrat engines.The transaction will also extend ELFC’s

existing customer base to more than 80

airlines and MRO companies. Subject to

the necessary consents, ELFC will also

assume the servicing o a portolio o

seven additional engines owned by a third

party, which will urther enhance ELFC’s

portolio o managed assets.

FL Technics has entered into a denitive

agreement to acquire UK-based Storm

Aviation, an international provider o linemaintenance services with bases in the UK

(Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cardi, Gatwick,

Heathrow, Manchester, Newcastle, Robin

Hood Doncaster) and mainland Europe

(Bergamo, Brno, Brussels, Bucharest,

Gdansk, Heraklion, Larnaca and Paphos)

This acquisition will enable FL Technics

to have a network o 24 line stations

in total across Europe and the CIS and

extend the capability list to include Boeing

747/767/777 and Airbus A330/340/380.

Singapore Technologies Engineering

has announced that its US subsidiary

Vision Technologies Aerospace

(VT Aerospace) has entered into an

agreement to acquire 100% o the shares

o DRB Aviation Consultants.

DRB Aviation will be a wholly

owned subsidiary o V T Aerospace. The

acquisition is part o ST Engineering’s

strategic intent to develop the group’s

cabin interior engineering capability.

DRB Aviation has a s trong track record

in aircrat interiors engineering and is an

organisational designee under the FAA’s

Organisation Designation Authorisation

(ODA) programme that allows autonomy

and eiciency in the issuance o minor

STCs or avionics and interiors projects.

Established in 1997, DRB Aviation

provides services such as engineering

design, lame testing, kitting, and staticand pull testing. It has an excellent track

record in engineering and certiication

or VIP and corporate aircrat completion,

and has undertaken numerous VIP and

corporate aircrat interior engineering

and certiication projects. This adds

to the certiication capability o ST

Engineering’s Aerospace sector,

which currently holds an EASA Design

Organisation Approval authorisation.

PEOPLE

Christian Duhain has joined A J Walter

Aviation as a Non-Executive Director.

Joe Lipari has been promoted to

Director, Operations at AvCrat Technical

Services, while Scott Baun is appointed as

Director, Quality Assurance and Program

Management, Robert Vaughn is promoted

to Chie Inspector and Stan Gregory is

promoted to Engineering Manager.

Mike Stowell, Executive Vice President

Engineering and Chie Technology

Ofcer o Aviation Partners Boeing, has

assumed the role as acting CEO ollowing

the resignation o John Reimers.

Michel Nanninga has been named Vice

President o Sales and James Green

Director o Purchasing at CTS Engines.

EVENTS

Inter Airport Europe

11-14 October

Munich Trade Fair,

Germany

Contact Mack Brooks Exhibitions:

tel: +44 17 278 1400

email: [email protected]

Innovative Aircrat Seating

17-19 October

Radisson BLU Hotel, Hamburg Airport,

Germany

Contact IQPC:

tel: +49 30 20 91 3330


www.aircrat-seating-conerence.com

Future MRO & Ageing Aircrat26-27 October

Holiday Inn Bloomsbury, London,

United Kingdom

Contact SMi Group:

tel: +44 207 827 6000


www.smi-online.co.uk

PMA Summit

3-4 November

Earls Court Conerence Centre

London, UK

tel: +34 91 804 2577email: [email protected]

www.avmain-mag.com/pma-summit



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