Wideroe has signed up with SAMCO Aircraft Maintenance for a three-year base maintenance contract.

The contract is an agreement that outlines the terms and conditions for the base maintenance checks, major modifications and upgrades and other work that Wideroe chooses to outsource to SAMCO.

Due to the increase in aircraft and operational [...]

Test pilots yesterday flew the first ARJ21-700 regional jet from its production site in Shanghai to China’s Flight Test Establishment in Xi’an, the capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi province, where developers plan to continue flight testing and earn type certification from the country’s civil aviation authorities. The 700-nm, two-hour, 19-minute trip marked the ARJ21’s [...]

The FAA has issued an airworthiness directive (AD) effective Aug. 13, 2009, for Pratt & Whitney Canada PW305As and PW305Bs installed on, but not limited to, Bombardier Learjet 60s and Hawker 1000s. The AD stems from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) to identify and correct an unsafe condition on an aviation product. The MCAI [...]

The Clearwater (Florida) Police Department Economic Crimes Unit has charged Todd Christopher Naylor, 32, of Clearwater with four counts of grand theft relating to an aircraft parts business he purported to own. According to the Clearwater Police Department, from August 2008 to February 2009 Naylor represented himself as an aircraft supply business and advertised [...]

Europeans are “blowing smoke” and “crying wolf,” said Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.), chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, during the debate about whether the Europeans would require EASA-certified U.S. repair stations to undergo inspections in response to the H.R. 915 FAA Reauthorization Act’s requirement for biannual inspection of all foreign Part 145 certificate [...]

M7 Aerospace has launched a program to support Rolls-Royce 250-series engine operators by teaming with Essential Turbines of Dorval, Quebec. The engine is installed in numerous helicopter models, including Bells, Sikorsky S-76s, MD Helicopters, Agusta 109s, Eurocopter AS 355s, MBB BO105s and others. Under the terms of the agreement, M7 will market Essential Turbines’s [...]

American Airlines parent AMR Corp. said a “very difficult revenue environment” drove a second-quarter net loss of $390 million, narrowed 73.3% from a $1.45 billion deficit in the year-ago period when heavy noncash impairment charges dragged down the bottom line.

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