To more closely integrate its repair work under the Leki Aviation umbrella, the company has opened two new Leki Tech repair facilities in the USA and UK.
As it celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, TP Aerospace has launched plans to open 11 new global locations by 2020. Thomas Ibsoe, president of TP Aerospace, which is an aftermarket supplier of wheels and brakes, speaks with Lindsay Bjerregaard about the Green Sunrise plan and where the company is looking to grow.
The Naples, Italy-based MRO, which has had a productive few months of expanding airline contracts and capability, plans to adopt a similar formula going forward.
The U.S. midterm elections are putting new leaders into key congressional aviation committees—including some of whom have criticized foreign repair stations in the past.
Uptake and Rolls-Royce are about half way through a two-month proof of concept to ascertain whether a different data-science approach will improve Trent engines’ reliability—including detecting problems before they occur.
Wolfgang Mayrhuber led the rehabilitation team charged with engineering Lufthansa’s recovery in the early 1990s. Subsequently, he was elected chairman of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Technik when it became an independent entity in 1994. He is credited evolving LHT into a global supplier of MRO services.
Private equity firm Liberty Hall Capital Partners said Dec. 3 it bought Aircraft Performance Group (APG), which offers proprietary flight operations software targeted at the aerospace aftermarket.
Passenger-door seal damage caused by a catering truck created an unnerving onboard noise that led a Qantas AirbusA380 to return to Sydney 2 hr. into a scheduled flight to the U.S., an Australian Transport Safety Board (ATSB) report found.
