Using its own Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering System (AMOS), Swiss regional Crossair was able to handle rapid growth in fleet and operations with a proportionally smaller increase in engineering and maintenance manpower.

While flight simulator maintenance and cockpit maintenance share avionics service as a key element, the similarity stops there.

Helipro is in final assembly of an offshore-use version of its S-61 Short conversion following strong expressions of interest from oil-support operators.

In an about-face, France's Snecma is preparing to acquire Societe Europeenne de Propulsion (SEP), abandoning its plan to sell its stake in noncore affiliates and subsidiaries such as SEP, Messier-Bugatti and Hispano-Suiza.