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Chromalloy Gains New President Chromalloy announced the appointment of a new president to lead the company in the aerospace and Industrial Gas Turbine (IGT) markets. Carlo Luzzatto comes to Chromalloy from Ansaldo Energia, a
division of the Italian conglomerate Finmeccanica, where he was serving as co-general manager. “With Carlo’s appointment Chromalloy is positioned for growth in the global energy and aerospace industries,” said Armand F. Lauzon, Jr. “He will take Chromalloy to the next level.” Luzzatto succeeds Lauzon, who held the leadership position since 2008. Lauzon will become the company’s chief executive officer and is also chief executive officer of Sequa Corporation, Chromalloy’s parent company. Prior to joining Ansaldo Energia, Luzzatto was General Manager of GE’s RotorFlow unit, within GE Oil and Gas.
Monarch Appoints Sales & Planning Head Monarch
Aircraft Engineering
(MAEL) has appointed Lee Burgess as head of Sales & Capacity Planning. Burgess will be responsible for the acquisition and development of new business within Monarch Aircraft
Engineering. Burgess joined Monarch Aircraft Engineering in 1988 and spent 18 years as a qualified Aircraft Engineer. He joined the management team in 2006 where he held a number of positions before moving into a senior management role as head of Maintenance Control and Capacity Planning in 2008.
Andy Patsalides Joins Gama Group Gama Group appointed Andy Patsalides as director of marketing. Patsalides joins Gama after nearly 40 years in various aerospace marketing roles at blue chip companies, including British Airways and Boeing.
As Boeing’s regional director for Europe and Russia, Patsalides helped airlines focus on profitability through network development, differentiated products and brands. At British Airways he held a number of marketing management positions, implementing major corporate identity programs and managing the upgrade of the Concorde fleet. He was a member of several aircraft procurement project teams and a Marketing Consultant to numerous BA Franchise Airline Partners.
Donaldson Names Vermeersch VP Donaldson Company has appointed Wim Vermeersch as vice president for its European, Middle Eastern, and North African business effective January 1st. Most recently, Vermeersch was director of Engine Products for Donaldson’s European Operations. Vermeersch will assume
MNG Has Begun Passenger-to-Freighter Conversion
Nine years after its first C-check, MNG Technic is undertaking another major task. MNG Technic is in the process of converting three Airbus A300- 600 passenger aircraft into freighter configuration belonging to MNG Airlines. The conversion of the first aircraft began on September 19, 2011. MNG Technic will become the first and only MRO in Turkey capable of passenger-to-freighter conversion. The passenger-to-freighter conversion will be performed by MNG Technic at their Istanbul MRO facility using an Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) and conversion kit supplied by B/E Aerospace. Conversion will require the removal of all passenger equipment, major structural reinforcements to the aircraft floor and fuselage and the installation of an electrically powered main deck large freighter door. The converted freighter
aircraft will be capable of transporting a payload of up to 52 tons. Passenger-to- freighter conversion is a significant step forward in transforming MNG Technic into one of only a few MROs in the world capable of offering freighter conversion installation and the first and only MRO in the world outside of the OEM to convert A300-600 aircraft with EASA certification according to the company.
Armenian Carrier Broadens Contract with AFI KLM E&M
Armenian flag carrier Armavia has extended the provisions of a contract signed with AFI KLM E&M in June 2010 to its entire Airbus fleet. The contract now covers component support services, including pool access, repairs, and the provision of a main base kit at the carrier’s Yerevan hub. The contract extends component support to its entire Airbus fleet, totaling two A320-200s and four A319-100s - including their presidential jet. AFI KLM E&M’s ability to instantaneously build and offer a support solution that meets the Armenian carrier’s urgent requirements was the deciding factor according to Armavia. “This reactivity regarding our expectancy was decisive for us,” says Norayr Beluyan, Armavia CEO.
Virgin Atlantic and Lufthansa Technik Extend Contract
Virgin Atlantic and Lufthansa Technik extended their business relations by signing a Memorandum of Understanding covering the introduction of a new eight-year contract for C-checks and CF6-80 thrust reverser services for the airline’s B747-400 fleet. These contracts are part of current comprehensive negotiations between the two companies to effectively bring together these new agreements within one new general terms agreement (GTA). The new GTA will consist
of the thrust reverser services for both the Trent 500 engines of Virgin’s Airbus A340 fleet and also for the CF6-80 engines of the Boeing 747-400 fleet, plus the C-Checks for the thirteen Boeing 747-400s. The C-Checks will be performed at Lufthansa Technik Maintenance International in Frankfurt, and the repair and overhaul services for the thrust reversers will be carried out at the airframe related component (ARC) business unit of Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg.
TAP Brazil is Certified to Perform Mx on FAB’s F-5 fighters
After a technical inspection performed by the DGEQ, Assessoria de Gestão da Qualidade do Parque de Material Aeronáutico de São Paulo, the Quality Control Department of São Paulo Aeronautical Depot, in September, TAP Maintenance and Engineering Brazil (TAP M&E Brazil) was certified by the Diretoria de Material Aeronáutico e Bélico – DIRMAB, the head of the Brazilian Air Force Logistics System, to perform periodical inspections on the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) F-5E/FM aircraft. The F-5 is used by the Brazilian Air Force and several other nations Armed Forces as a fighter pilot training aircraft The Brazilian Air Force has been using this aircraft since 1974 and the Brazilian fleet recently modernized avionics and weapons systems, receiving the most up-to-date embedded technology. In order to be certified to perform overhauls of these aircraft, TAP M&E Brazil met specific technical
requirements. They obtained technical orders, necessary tooling and special equipment, as well as adapted their facilities. They also organized a course entirely dedicated to train its engineers and mechanics in the maintenance of such equipment. A group of 30 engineers and highly experienced mechanics graduated an aircraft maintenance training school, with classes given by F-5 experts.
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