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    Breeze supporting A220s with engines from ex-EgyptAir fleet

    2025-04-17T20:49:00Z

    US carrier Breeze Airways confirms it is using former EgyptAir Airbus A220s to support its newer airframes of the type in its fleet.

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    Russia’s UZGA setting up aftersales system for regional aircraft

    2025-04-15T13:28:00Z

    Russian aircraft manufacturer UZGA is establishing an aftersales service system covering the company’s domestically-produced regional models. It is intended to provide engineering and design support as well as spares and equipment, along with personnel training. UZGA is developing a twin-engined 44-seat turboprop, the TVRS-44 Ladoga, while continuing to work on ...

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    Former Lufthansa and Malaysia A380s set to be torn down for spares

    2025-04-12T18:35:00Z

    Three Airbus A380s – two ex-Lufthansa and one ex-Malaysia Airlines aircraft – are to undergo dismantling for spares by Florida-based VAS Aero Services. VAS has identified the former Lufthansa jets as MSN61 and MSN66, and the Malaysia airframe as MSN84. Airbus has selected the company to handle the teardown and ...

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    Ex-EgyptAir A220 parted out to support Delta Air Lines fleet

    2025-04-09T07:32:00Z

    Delta Air Lines is to use parted-out components from an ex-EgyptAir Airbus A220-300 to support its own fleet of the type in the face of spares shortages. The US carrier’s Delta Material Services division has reached an agreement with Florida-based lessor Azorra to part-out the airframe. Azorra acquired EgyptAir’s entire ...

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    Grounded Transair aims to resume operations after appeal against certificate revocation

    2025-04-09T06:58:00Z

    Grounded US cargo carrier Transair is aiming to resume flights from Hawaii later this year, after a judging panel apparently dismissed an attempt to revoke the certificate of operator Rhoades Aviation. Rhoades Aviation says the US FAA’s complaint against the company has been “dismissed with prejudice” by National Transportation Safety ...

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    Emerald ATR 72 nose-wheel loss inquiry points to improper maintenance

    2025-04-03T11:02:00Z

    UK investigators believe bearing overheat led to a nose-wheel being shed from an ATR 72-500 on departure from Edinburgh in October 2023, but the reason behind the failure could not be determined. The Emerald Airlines aircraft – with 55 passengers and a crew of four – continued to Belfast City, ...

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    A320neos being disassembled for parts as component shortages continue

    2025-04-02T20:03:00Z

    Aircraft parts supplier Unical Aviation has acquired “a fleet” of used Airbus A320neos that it intends to disassemble and sell for parts, a plan it says marks the “first dedicated disassembly programme for the [A320]neo-family aircraft”. Unical intends to start acquiring the jets this month, it said on 1 April. ...

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    Alaskan C-54 in-flight explosion traced to engine power loss and poorly-repaired fuel tank

    2025-04-02T08:48:00Z

    US investigators believe loss of power in the outboard left-hand engine of a Douglas C-54, and the subsequent feathering of its propeller, initiated a chain reaction of events including a fuel explosion and fatal loss of control. The inquiry into the accident, which occurred in Alaska on 23 April last ...

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    Lithuania’s GetJet to set up own MRO facility in Vilnius

    2025-03-27T13:14:00Z

    Lithuanian wet-lease specialist GetJet Airlines is planning to establish a maintenance facility at Vilnius airport to support its in-house technical operations. The company intends the first aircraft at the new €10 million ($10.8 million) facility to enter maintenance by 2028. GetJet operates a fleet of single-aisle types including Airbus A320-family ...

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    GE and Lufthansa revive MRO venture XEOS with focus on single-aisle Leap engines

    2025-03-25T07:35:00Z

    Polish-based engine maintenance venture XEOS – originally established to service widebody powerplants – has been revived with a focus on narrowbody operations, specifically the CFM International Leap engine. GE Aerospace and Lufthansa Technik opened XEOS in 2019 with the intention of servicing GEnx-2B engines for the Boeing 747-8 and, eventually, ...

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    Russian federal authority certifies first MRO firm under new unifying maintenance regulation

    2025-03-24T11:06:00Z

    Russian federal air transport authority Rosaviatsia has issued its first aircraft maintenance certificate under a new unifying regulation with which all servicing organisations will need to comply. Moscow Vnukovo-based firm AviaComplex – which was formerly known as VTS Jets – secured the certificate from Rosaviatsia on 21 March. The FAP-145 ...

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    Life extension sought for An-26 as replacements remain under development

    2025-03-10T15:28:00Z

    Russian civil aviation research institute GosNIIAS has ordered the initiation of work to prolong the life of Antonov An-26 regional aircraft by another 10 years. The Soviet-era An-26 first flew in 1969 and the order – listed in procurement documents, according to news agency Interfax – would extend the type’s ...

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    Sky Alps grounds several aircraft after maintenance certification concerns emerge

    2025-03-04T17:35:00Z

    Italian regional carrier Sky Alps has temporarily grounded seven aircraft as a precaution following concerns over maintenance certification which emerged during an audit. Sky Alps is based in Bolzano, in northern Italy, and has around 14 De Havilland Dash 8-400s. Inspectors from Italian civil aviation regulator ENAC conducted the audit ...

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    Learjet touched down with misaligned landing-gear before fatal Scottsdale excursion

    2025-02-28T17:19:00Z

    Investigators have disclosed that the Learjet 35A which veered off the runway and fatally collided with a parked business aircraft at Scottsdale had touched down with a misaligned left-hand main landing-gear. As the aircraft conducted the approach to runway 21 on 10 February, video images captured from a golf course ...

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    US FAA advises 757 cargo-door tests and cleaning after in-flight opening incidents

    2025-02-24T09:42:00Z

    US safety regulators are recommending a series of checks on certain Boeing 757-200 converted freighters, after an incident in which the main cargo door opened during flight. The US FAA has stopped short of issuing an airworthiness directive but, in a safety information bulletin, highlights the occurrence in February 2021 ...

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    UAE’s Sanad Group to join P&W’s geared turbofan maintenance network

    2025-02-19T10:08:00Z

    Pratt & Whitney is bringing the Abu Dhabi-based Sanad Group into its geared turbofan maintenance network, the first provider in the Middle East region. Sanad Group is establishing a new facility in the region which is set for completion in 2028. Located in Al Ain, about 130km east of the ...

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    DOJ indicts US aircraft parts firm for violating sanctions against Russia

    2025-02-18T21:56:00Z

    The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted three employees of a US aircraft parts supplier for allegedly exporting aircraft components to a Russian airline in violation of US sanctions.

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    Allied 737 carried out dozens of ‘flap 15’ landings in weeks before gear-collapse excursion

    2025-02-03T14:43:00Z

    Nigerian investigators have disclosed that an Allied Air Boeing 737-400 freighter carried out 85% of its landings with a ‘flaps 15’ setting in the six weeks before a gear-collapse and runway excursion at Abuja. The inquiry into the 11 December accident is recommending that the carrier inspects its fleet for ...

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    PAL Express taps HAECO for Airbus narrowbody base maintenance

    2025-01-24T03:21:00Z

    PAL Express – the sister company of national carrier Philippine Airlines – has signed a base maintenance agreement with HAECO, becoming the MRO provider’s newest customer. 

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    Gazpromavia crash: Superjet pilots urged to watch for unreliable angle-of-attack clues

    2025-01-23T13:23:00Z

    Crucial to the investigation into the Gazpromavia Superjet 100 crash outside Moscow is whether the pilots could have saved the aircraft after its automatic stall-protection system pushed it into a fatal dive. Preliminary investigation indicates the Superjet, which came down in a forest on 12 July last year, was fed ...