Aircraft Supplier & MRO News.Aug 13, 2007 Air Berlin Technik Air Berlin said Air Berlin Technik will service the airline's fleet of 130 aircraft and will look to develop third-party business. "Air Berlin is hoping that by merging these technical operations it will achieve better utilization of the facilities at the individual sites and a reduction in technical costs. The intention is also to separate these activities from seasonal flight operations," the airline said. Aug 10, 2007 Air Berlin Technik Air Berlin announced the creation of a new, independent maintenance and engineering company that will combine its own Air Berlin Technik Berlin division, 600 employees working for LTU LTU Luleå Tekniska Universitet (Luleå University of Technology; formerly Luleå Tekniska Högskola) LTU Lithuania LTU La Trobe University (Australia) LTU Lufttransport-Unternehmen GmbH in Dusseldorf and Munich, Air Berlin employees in Dusseldorf and 130 dba-Technik workers in Munich. The new company, Air Berlin Technik, will employ 1,100. The LTU workers and AB's employees in Dusseldorf will comprise Air Berlin Luftfahrttechnik Dusseldorf, a subsidiary of ABT ABT About ABT Abteilung (German: Department) ABT Abbott Laboratories (stock symbol) ABT American Ballet Theatre ABT Associação Brasileira de Telemarketing ABT Abort ABT Availability Based Tariff . Aug 10, 2007 Bristow Group, Appareo Systems Bristow Group Inc. and Appareo Systems LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control announced today that the Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control has certified an innovative new flight data monitoring solution jointly developed by Air Logistics, a subsidiary of Bristow, and Appareo that is the first low-cost, lightweight, fully integrated system specifically designed for small and legacy aircraft. Aug 9, 2007 General Electric GE fights to keep military jet engine development contract. General Electric is fighting to continue development of an engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. GE's engine would be competition for another engine under development by Pratt & Whitney. Pentagon officials say they can't afford to pay for the development of rival engines, but other analysts say competition between contractors would lower costs in the long run. Aug 8, 2007 General electric GE Aviation Materials launched its Singapore Distribution Center, the GE-Snecma joint venture's first in Asia. DHL DHL abbr. 1. Doctor of Hebrew Letters 2. Doctor of Hebrew Literature Exel Supply Chain will operate and manage the center. The 31,300-sq.-ft. facility will hold about $30 million in new and used engine parts and complete spares. Aug 6, 2007 Lufthansa Systems Lufthansa Systems will help Air Dolomiti implement e-ticketing. In a first phase, the Italian carrier will incorporate interline agreements with Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines. Aug 9, 2007 Mesaba Airlines, Northwest Airlines Mesaba Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Northwest Airlines, will build an $11.8 million maintenance facility at Des Moines International Airport Des Moines International Airport (IATA: DSM, ICAO: KDSM, FAA LID: DSM) is a public small hub primary located three miles (5 km) southwest of the central business district of Des Moines, a city in Polk County, Iowa, United States. . The complex will handle scheduled MRO MRO In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Mauritanian Ouguiya. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. for the carrier's Bombardier CRJ200s/900s and is expected to be completed by the 2008 third quarter. The site was chosen because of its proximity to Mesaba hubs in Memphis and Minneapolis/St. Paul. Aug 9, 2007 Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce Engine Certified For Boeing's 787 Rolls-Royce said on Tuesday its Trent 1000 engine had received its airworthiness air·wor·thy adj. air·wor·thi·er, air·wor·thi·est Being in fit condition to fly: an airworthy helicopter; airworthy avionics. certification, clearing the way for the first flight of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. Aug 8, 2007 Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce Trent 1000, launch engine for the 787, becoming the first engine to be validated concurrently under new regulatory procedures. The certification comes as scheduled and just 18 months after the engine's first ground run. Nine development engines have been used in ground testing and a further 10 will support inflight testing on four 787s. According to Rolls, the results of rig and engine testing have allowed the Trent 1000 to be certificated with significant margins to CAEP CAEP Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians CAEP Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (ICAO) CAEP China Academy of Engineering Physics CAEP Certificat d'Aptitude a l'Exercice de la Profession 6 standards for all emissions. Aug 8, 2007 Rolls-Royce, Boeing Rolls-Royce said on Tuesday its Trent 1000 engine had received its airworthiness certification, clearing the way for the first flight of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. GE Aviation has also developed an engine for the 787, which is the fastest selling airliner in Boeing's history. On a date symbolizing the plane's name, (70807) the seventh day of the eighth month of 2007, officials from the European Aviation Safety Agency European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is an agency of the European Union with offices in Cologne, Germany, which has been given specific regulatory and executive tasks in the field of civilian aviation safety. (EASA EASA European Aviation Safety Agency EASA European Advertising Standards Alliance (Brussels, Belgium) EASA European Association of Social Anthropologists EASA European Architecture Students Assembly EASA European Academic Software Award ) handed over the airworthiness certificate. A spokesman said the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also certified the engine on Tuesday. Aug 8, 2007 STG Aerospace, Boeing STG Aerospace's Wireless Emergency Primary Power System received an FAA STC STC Supplemental Type Certificate (FAA) STC Society for Technical Communication STC Subject to Change STC Surf the Channel (website) STC Sound Transmission Class STC Singapore Turf Club for the Boeing 737NG family, the first in a prioritized "rollout" program of certification aimed at the entire commercial aircraft market. Aug 6, 2007 VEM VEM Versatile Exercise Mine (US Navy) VEM Volume Electronic Mail (Canada Post Corporation) VEM Virtual Electron Microscope VEM Value Engineering Manager VEM Value Estimation Model Maintenance, Airbus VEM Maintenance and Engineering said it received FAA certification to perform heavy maintenance for Airbus A310 and A300-600 aircraft. 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