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MAEL secures Cygnus Air Boeing 757 Freighter maintenance contract

Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL) has secured a contract with Cygnus Air to provide C check maintenance for its Boeing 757 Freighter aircraft.

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Monarch Aircraft Engineering’s highly skilled aircraft engineers will carry out C Check maintenance for the Madrid based cargo airline which will include insulation blanket modification for the Spanish operator.

All the maintenance work will be carried out at its London Luton Airport hangar facility and will commence this month.

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Neil Kirby, Sales Manager at Monarch Aircraft Engineering, said: “It is with great pleasure to be able to work with Cygnus Air and welcome them to our growing customer base of cargo operators.”
 

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