Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services

Air Transport

Businesswire | June 05, 2023

Ameriflight, the nation’s largest Part 135 Cargo airline, today announced it has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate drone aircraft, making Ameriflight the first existing Part 135 Cargo airline to receive such exemption. The newly granted exemption allows Ameriflight to conduct UAS operations under its current Part 119 Air Carrier Certificate for Part 135 operations. Moreover, the company has approval to add the Matternet M2 to its fleet, enabl...

Virgin Atlantic | September 10, 2020

Virgin Atlantic has taken delivery of its latest A350-1000. Registered G-VDOT, the aircraft was delivered from Toulouse to Manchester at lunchtime yesterday, marking the first A350 delivery for the airline since G-VJAM arrived in October 2019. DOT took off from the Airbus plant in Toulouse at 12:15 local time yesterday. After around an hour and a half in the sky, she touched down at Manchester Airport. Photographer Anthony Bryant caught some wonderful images of the plane’s arrival into MAN...

Business Aviation

Businesswire | July 04, 2023

VSE Corporation ,a leading provider of aftermarket distribution and maintenance, repair and overhaul (“MRO”) services for air, land and sea transportation assets for commercial and government markets, announced today it has closed its previously announced acquisition of Desser Holding Company LLC (“Desser Aerospace”), a global aftermarket solutions provider of specialty distribution and MRO services. Concurrent with the purchase of Desser Aerospace, VSE sold Desser ...

Aerospace

Businesswire | June 12, 2023

O2 Investment Partners is pleased to announce that through FCAH Aerospace it has made an investment in and partnered with Cobalt Aero Services to support its strategic growth plan. Isac Roths, CEO of FCAH Aerospace, commented, “Cobalt Aero Services is known across the aviation industry as a premier provider of maintenance repair and overhaul services for nacelle components, thrust reversers, and other structural airframe components. We are excited to have Tony McAnly and h...