SACRAMENTO, Calif. – An executive at a California airplane repair company has pleaded guilty to endangering aircraft by cutting corners with replacement parts not certified by regulators. The U.S.

Aircraft maintenance exists within a paradigm shaped by operational urgency, safety requirements, and persistent cost pressure.

Thomas McDowell fulfills a parts order from GlobalParts Group’s 90,000-square-foot warehouse and administrative offices at the Augusta Industrial Park. Jerry Siebenmark The Wichita Eagle Fourteen ...

As the aviation repair industry has grown, airlines and third-party maintenance companies have fought to beat back efforts to bring operations under greater oversight by federal regulators. Now that ...

Automated, on-aircraft bonded patch prep. DMG MORI (Bielefeld, Germany) and SAUER (Stipshausen, Germany) have co-developed this ULTRASONIC mobileBLOCK 5-axis milling unit, which attaches to aircraft ...

NEWARK --An Edgewater man was indicted Friday for allegedly using his aircraft parts brokering company in a 19-year conspiracy to launder scrapped and rejected jet engine parts, authorities said.

A joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary has received a $102.8 million modification under a U.S. Navy delivery order to repair V-22 Osprey parts. The ...