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.
Unscheduled maintenance services are now available to Embraer business jet operators under a new partnership with Voar Aviation.
The addition of an authorized Embraer support center in Chattanooga, Tennessee is part of a larger expansion by West Star Aviation.
Bangor, Maine-based C&L specializes in modifying and upgrading Embraer regional jets into business class and private aircraft.
Summit Aviation has served S-92 operators since 2016 and expects to expand its support of the S-92 helicopter following authorization by Sikorsky.
As business flying in the region is becoming more "professional", JSSI sees the market as primed for expansion.
Gulfstream is partnering with Líder Aviação and Aero Rio Táxi Aéreo.
With 19 bases, 1,500 employees, and a fleet of more than 50 aircraft, Líder Aviação has a large reach in Latin America's business aviation scene.
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.
