Aviation engineering news

When Norwegian’s LN-LNG departed back to Oslo yesterday it marked the completion of a maintenance round for 7 Norwegian Long Haul (DU/NLH) Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft carried out by British Airways Maintenance Cardiff (BAMC). BAMC is an official Boeing maintenance partner which demonstrates the high standard of work carried out [read more]

DAS Aviation Solutions Ltd announced today on facebook the approval for the Instrument Landing System (ILS) at St Athan has finally been approved for use by the Military Aviation Authority (MAA). However, in a bizarre twist in this story, we spoke to David Smillie, Director of DAS Aviation Solutions Ltd [read more]

Cardiff Aviation will get round the table for talks with the Welsh Government today to discuss the fact that they have never paid rent at their St Athan site, leaving a large debt owed to the Welsh taxpayer. Cardiff Aviation took over the Twin Peaks facility at St Athan in [read more]

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]