Aviation engineering news

It has been a day of mixed news for North Wales with Raytheon UK opening a new hangar and Marshall Aviation considering closing its Broughton site. Raytheon UK, who currently employ 145 people at their site in Broughton, Flintshire, have officially opened a new hangar as part of a £130m deal to [read more]

GE Aviation Wales has been awarded a contract worth £20m at its plant in South Wales securing not only the future of the site but hundreds of existing jobs as well as creating new ones. GE Aviation Wales plant in Nantgarw repairs and overhauls GE’s range of turbofan jet engines [read more]

British engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce has posted record losses totalling £4.6bn. Rolls-Royce, who make jet engines for aircraft including the Trent series used on Boeing 777, 787 and A380, blamed the weak pound and the settlement following the bribery and corruption case brought against them by the US and the UK. [read more]

An official has told the Welsh Assembly committee that Cardiff Aviation Ltd, the aircraft maintenance firm headed by Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson, has not paid rent for its use of the Twin Peaks hangar facility at MOD St Athan since it started operations there in 2012. The company started [read more]

The 3rd A350-100 aircraft is about to join the test fleet at Airbus. The aircraft , whose wings are made at Broughton in North Wales is the final aircraft to operate that will share the load certification testing for the type. The job of the 3rd aircraft will be to [read more]

Airbus has received its first airliner order of 2017 and it’s from US-based leasing company Aviation Capital Group. The order for 35 aircraft including 30 x A320NEO, 2 x A320 and 3 x A321NEO also includes and option for a further 10 A320NEO. The Airbus A320 family. The deal is [read more]

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has announced that MOD Sealand in Flintshire has been chosen as the global repair hub for European F-35 Lightning II aircraft. The F-35 Program Office has chosen the North Wales site to provide maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade services for F-35 avionics and aircraft components. [read more]

Airbus has begun construction this week of the brand new Beluga XL large transport aircraft at the air-framers Toulouse headquarters. The XL is will transport British made wings from the Broughton factory in North Wales to Toulouse for final assembly. The current Beluga can carry just one Airbus A350 XWB [read more]