Airbus and Singapore Join Forces for New Maintenance Solutions

Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) and the Airbus Group signed a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday, February 16, to create a program to develop technologies that will improve the efficiency of aircraft maintenance. Signed by Pierre Jaffre, Airbus’s president Asia Pacific, and Tan Kong Hwee, the EDB’s director of transport engineering, the agreement will result in a demonstration platform and testbed that will test various new technologies under what Airbus terms its “Future Hangar Initiative.” Elements to be explored include: scanning an aircraft as it enters a hangar; digitized inspections; and using 3D printing to produce spare parts.