SIFCO ASC, a leading selective electroplating specialist, is staying operational to support key industries with its vital maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) projects. The steadily increasing impact of the COVID-19 virus is creating an unprecedented situation across the world. To help tackle the pandemic and keep crucial sectors like power generation, oil and gas, aerospace, military and marine online, SIFCO ASC’s sites remain open under social-distancing guidelines.

AviationManuals, a provider of digital operations manuals, is providing guidance for properly updating FBO operations manuals during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company supports a client base that operates over 4,500 aircraft worldwide, including 62 Fortune 100 company flight departments.

Clay Lacy Aviation now provides comprehensive aircraft cleaning and disinfecting services at the company’s maintenance centers and through its mobile response teams. Wearing full-body Tyvek suits, goggles, gloves and face masks, detailing experts use bipolar ionization equipment and EPA-registered, aviation-approved products to clean and disinfect the aircraft interior. The procedure kills surface and airborne pathogens, bacteria and mold, removes odors, improves air quality, and reduces static electricity, dust, pollen and smoke.

STS Aviation Services (STS), a division of STS Aviation Group and an MRO provider to the global aviation industry, is now AS9110C-certified in the United Kingdom. The certification grants STS Aviation Services the authority to maintain, repair and overhaul both civilian and military aircraft in accordance with aerospace law and global regulatory requirements.

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, Aviation Institute of Maintenance (AIM), a family of aviation maintenance schools, announces that it will offer its entire student population access to its multi-award-winning, adaptive Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) courses powered by Adaptive 3.0 learning platform, Fulcrum Labs.

The International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) submits a letter to the International Civil Aviation Organization, recommending that the CORSIA baseline be adjusted now to take into account the unprecedented effects of COVID-19 on worldwide air travel.

GARD Specialists® secures FAA DER approval to provide special high-strength threaded inserts to repair piston- and turbine-engine cases and other airframe gearboxes and components that have stripped threads.

Duncan Aviation announces that its disinfection service is now available at five of the company’s Satellite Avionics Shops: Fort Lauderdale, FL; Houston, TX; Seattle, WA; Teterboro, NJ; and Van Nuys, CA. The service will expand to additional shops throughout the Duncan Aviation Satellite Network in the coming weeks. 

King Aerospace announces it has been selected as an awardee on the Kits, Recovery, Augmentation, Components and Engines (KRACEn) multiple award contract (MAC) supporting the United States Navy.

The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) welcomes news that the U.S. Department of the Treasury has begun making payments to many of the small and mid-sized general-aviation air carriers, including FAR Part 135 charter operators struggling with the unprecedented financial challenges raised by the COVID-19 pandemic.