Maintenance and Modifications
News and issues about aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), covering all segments of the aviation industry; and modifications for aircraft and engines. Subjects include product support of aircraft, engines and avionics, MRO company mergers, acquisitions, announcements and personnel, Airworthiness Directives, Supplemental Type Certificate approvals and other topics.
Embraer has added more space to its Sorocaba maintenance facility to handle more business aviation as well as military and commercial customers.
Marsh Brothers is working toward approvals this year of a kit that it says will bring improved technologies to King Air flap rollers.
Elliott has expanded its footprint to Dallas and added a fifth location with the acquisition of Four Points Aero on Love Field.
Revv Aviation has added a maintenance, flight training, and aircraft charter base at Quad Cities International Airport in Moline, Illinois.
Becoming a Bombardier authorized service facility three years ago has boosted ACI Jet's business.
The FAA is proposing to update flight operations and maintenance manual requirements to reflect industry use of electronic versions in various formats.
The airworthiness directive limiting Gulfstream G500/600 runway crosswind operations is causing delays in aircraft deliveries and for G700/800 approvals.
The CAAs of Russian and Iran agreed on July 26 to a pact calling for the supply of Iranian parts and services for Russia’s Western jets.
During this week's EAA AirVenture, Daher launched its Aviation Marketplace e-commerce parts and services portal for its in-production and legacy airplanes.
Among the earliest independent third-party MROs to do so, AAR has received FAA recognition for its corporate SMS program.
