Anglo Normandy Aeroengineering (ANAE) has opened a new maintenance hanger at Guernsey Airport in the Channel Islands. The company specialises in work on such types as the Shorts 360 and the Pilatus Britten-Norman Trislander, although the new hangar is capable of handling work on aircraft of up to ATR 72 size. ANAE has recently won a contract to modify a British Antarctic Survey de Havilland Dash 7 and will support the aircraft in Antarctica for three years.
Source: Flight International
HAECO has extended a series of MRO contracts with long-time customer China Airlines, covering the Taiwanese carrier’s fleet of Boeing 777 aircraft.
Delta Air Lines executives flag the role that its MRO business has played in ensuring the reliability of older aircraft in its own fleet, but note the focus will start to switch toward managing aircraft retirements and developing third party business.
One of Southwest Airlines’ Boeing 737-800s has returned to Denver, its departure airport, after one engine suffered an apparent cowl-door detachment. The aircraft had been operating the WN3695 service to Houston on 7 March. It had taken off from Denver’s runway 25. But air-ground communications indicate that the crew sought ...
