Aviation engineering news

British Airways (BA) Chairman Keith Williams today confirmed BA’s commitement to Wales by opening a new £3.3m Aerospace Centre in Treforest. During the ceremony he also confirmed that maintenance for BA’s new Boeing 787 dreamliner aircraft will be carried out at the British Airways Maintenance Cardiff (BAMC) facility. In the [read more]

Cardiff Airport based Dragonfly Executive Air Charter is to begin rotary charter operations after taking over the management of a Bell 206 on behalf of a client. Dragonfly, who currently operate a fleet of Beech King Air fixed wing aircraft in the executive charter market, hope that the helicopter will [read more]

Cardiff Aviation Chairman Bruce Dickinson has today announced he is going to put together a fleet of aeroplanes based in South Wales which will be leased to other airlines. The move which could create up to 200 jobs is a major boost to the region and bolsters South Wales growing [read more]

Iron Maiden is flying a bunch of lucky fans out to Paris Beauvais (LFOB/BVA) today from Cardiff Airport (EGFF/CWL) on-board a chartered Boeing 737-400 (9H-VVB). The Flight, Maiden 666 which departs at 13:20 arrived earlier following a short hop from Cardiff Aviation’s MRO Facility at MOD Saint Athan to operate [read more]

Cardiff Aviations Bruce Dickinson is close to starting an (Aircraft Crew Maintenance and Insurance) ACMI operation based out of the UK with his other venture, VVB Aviation. The airline which is described as being an “Airline in a Box” service is currently undergoing assessment for an EASA Operators Licence and [read more]

Following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Cardiff Aviation and Air Djibouti the Vale of Glamorgan based company will set up an airline in the African country. The airline will initially be freight based but with a strong view to starting passenger operations at a later date. Cardiff [read more]