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AMTES EXTENDS ITS AN-124 MAINTENANCE CAPABILITIES AT LEIPZIG/HALLE


AMTES GmbH, part of the Volga-Dnepr Technics subgroup, has been issued with a Part 145 (AR-145) certificate by the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), extending its maintenance and repair capabilities for the An-124 freighter aircraft.


IAC Aviation Rules, Part 145 (AR- 145) establish the requirements for MRO organisations and certification procedures. The document issued to AMTES GmbH allows the company to complete service bulletins on An-124 aircraft and means AMTES now holds all of the necessary certificates for An-124 maintenance at its hangar facility at Leipzig/Halle Airport.


Ildar Ilyasov, Managing Director of AMTES, stated: “We decided to obtain


UZBEKISTAN TAKES DELIVERY OF


7.5-METRE CYPRESS TREES AHEAD OF 2016 SHANGHAI COOPERATION SUMMIT


Twenty-eight 7.5 metre Cypress trees have arrived in the Uzbekistan capital, Tashkent, onboard one of Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ IL- 76TD-90VD freighters.


The trees were flown in from Brno in the Czech Republic for a landscape reconstruction project in Tashkent as


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Valery Gabriel, Vice President, Charter Cargo Operations Development, Volga-Dnepr Group; Sergey Instrumentov, Manager, Certification Service, Interstate Aviation Committee; and Ildar Ilyasov, Managing Director, Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering Service GmbH.


the MRO Organization Certificate to extend our Russian-built aircraft maintenance and repair capabilities. This is a solid step forward for Volga- Dnepr Group within the project of An- 124 modernisation. In the near future we are planning to extend the certificate on other types of work in accordance with AR-145. The An-124 aircraft, including those operated by Volga- Dnepr Airlines, has proven to be one of the best Russian-built cargo airplanes.


part of the city’s preparations to host the 2016 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. The Cypress trees were grown at a nursery in Germany and transported to Brno for the flight to Uzbekistan. Volga-Dnepr operated the flight on behalf of the Russian logistics company Haltec-Avia.


Vyacheslav Shakhov, Sales Executive of Volga-Dnepr Airlines, said: “Our customers’ main priority was to transport the trees in the shortest possible timescale. We were able to


We plan to extend our maintenance capabilities in the European market in relation to both Russian and western- built aircraft.”


AMTES GmbH provides MRO services for Russian and western-built aircraft. The company holds Part-145 and FAR- 145 certificates. Its main 8,500 square metre hangar is located at Leipzig/Halle Airport, Germany, and is supported by a line maintenance station at Frankfurt airport.


support this with a cost efficient solution because we had one of our IL-76TD- 90VD freighters positioned at Brno- Tuřany Airport. The trees were packing inside special protective boxes that were too tall to be loaded using the aircraft’s onboard crane system so in order to avoid the costly rental of external cranes we brought our own special loading equipment from Leipzig to the Czech Republic, which enabled us to load the trees using the aircraft’s ramp and rail system and a forklift truck.”


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