ENGINE NEWS

GA Telesis and ATSG to create a new engine hospital in the United States

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Jun 3^rd 2021 |

GA Telesis and Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) have entered into a joint venture agreement to build a new Specialized Procedures Aeroengine Hospital (SPAH) in the...

ST Engineering and Temasek to launch narrow-body freighter aircraft leasing JV in Singapore

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, May 20^th 2021 |

Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) and Singapore investment fund Temasek announce their intention to...

Air Seychelles extends its MRO contract with StandardAero for its PT6 engines

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, May 20^th 2021 |

Air Seychelles has signed a multi-year contract with StandardAero to support the PT6A-34 turboprop engines from Pratt & Whitney Canada which powering its fleet of DHC-...

SR Technics to expand its capabilities to the LEAP-1B engine as early as next year

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, May 6^th 2021 |

SR Technics will extend its services to new generation engines. The Engine Services activity of the Swiss MRO company...

Airbus FHS is extended to A320neo Family engine components

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, May 6^th 2021 |

Airbus announces extending the spectrum of its FHS (Flight Hour Service) program to cover engine components for the A320neo Family. The aircraft manufacturer has signe...

GATES boards CFM International's LEAP engines MRO network

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Apr 22^nd 2021 |

GA Telesis Engine Services OY (GATES) announces the signing of an agreement with CFM International to be able to provide MRO services for the LEAP-1A/-1B new family of...

Electrify future engineers

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Tue, Apr 20^th 2021 |

Rolls-Royce is offering the chance to design the pilot’s helmet for the all-electric world record attemptRolls-Royce is developing an all-electric plane that will be aiming for the record books with a target spe...

How Girl Day inspired an engineer

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Apr 15^th 2021 |

First a field trip, then an internship – and now, a wide-open future in STEMThe sixth-grade field trip changed her life.Muirrin O'Connell was a middle schooler walking the halls of what was then Rockwell Collins...

GA Telesis Engine Services approved by Indonesia to overhaul CFM56-5B/7B and CF6-80C2 engines

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Apr 8^th 2021 |

The Finnish subsidiary of GA Telesis specializing in engine maintenance, GA Telesis Engine Services OY (GATES), has j...

SIA Engineering Company launches a new engine division and wants to expand into Malaysia

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Mar 11^th 2021 |

SIA Engineering Company (SIAEC), the MRO division of Singapore Airlines Group, has created a new Engine Services Divi...

Nomination

Perwien Meriwani Appointed Managing Director, KLM UK Engineering Limited

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Mar 11^th 2021 |

Perwien Meriwani has been appointed Managing Director of KLM UK Engineering Limited as of 1st July 2021. Based in Norwich, KLM UK Engineering is an AFI KLM E&M subsidi...

Nomination

Virgin Galactic Announces Aerospace Systems and Engineering Leadership Appointments

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Mon, Mar 1^st 2021 |

Virgin Galactic today announced the appointments of Swami Iyer as its President of Aerospace Systems and Stephen Just...

FAA issues an emergency airworthiness directive for PW4000-112 engines

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Feb 25^th 2021 |

Following the serious incident on a United Airlines 777-200 on February 20, the FAA issued an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) requiring thermal-imaging inspect...

Magnetic Engines performs its first combustion chamber replacement on a CFM56-7B

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Feb 25^th 2021 |

Magnetic Engines, a new subsidiary of Magnetic MRO, has performed its first combustion chamber replacement on a CFM56...

Meet Esra : Structure Repair Engineer A320

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Wed, Feb 24^th 2021 |

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. This is the spirit that made me want to join Airbus!”Originally from Istanbul, Esra applied for the role of Customer Support Engineer for A320 at Airbus in Tou...