Boeing Global Services e-commerce sales reach $2B

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Boeing achieved an annual record for e-commerce parts sales in 2021 with more than $2 billion in online orders. Boeing Distribution Inc. (formerly Aviall) sold nearly 70,000 parts products through its e-commerce site to commercial and government customers, eclipsing pre-pandemic levels. Commercial orders accounted for $1.5 billion in sales, reflecting the continued recovery in the airline industry.

Boeing Distribution’s online revenue in 2021 was 15% higher compared to pre-pandemic levels, while orders were 20% higher. The e-commerce parts website, which features more than 500,000 products, had five million visits from 50 countries last year.

ST Engineering JV awarded P2F conversions

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Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), Center of Excellence for Airbus freighter conversions and joint venture of ST Engineering and Airbus, received orders for six Airbus A321 passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversions from SmartLynx Airlines. The conversions, scheduled in 2022 and 2023, will be performed at ST Engineering’s conversion sites in Singapore and China. SmartLynx will operate all six A321P2F aircraft for DHL in Europe. SmartLynx currently operates one A321P2F aircraft converted by EFW.

The Airbus A320/A321P2F offers up to 14 full container positions on the main deck and up to 10 container positions on the lower deck for a payload of more than 28 metric tons.

ST Engineering and EFW set up a new conversion site in China and the U.S. for the A321P2F in 2021 and will set up new sites for the A330P2F in China and the U.S. this year. The expansion will ramp up total conversion capacity for all their Airbus P2F programs to about 60 slots per year by 2024.

Lockheed Martin delivers first F-16 from Greenville

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Lockheed Martin returned the first F-16 jet to the U.S. Air Force as part of the F-16 sustainment depot program awarded in December 2020. The first jet arrived in Greenville, South Carolina, for work in spring 2021.

“This was the first fighter sustainment work awarded to the site, and with F-16 production also well underway in Greenville, the site is now the global home of the F-16,” says Danya Trent, Lockheed Martin F-16 program vice president.

More than 3,000 F-16s operate in 25 countries – including 900 with the Air Force. The latest version, the Block 70/72, will be flown by at least five countries beginning in the mid-2020s.

Satair to distribute Collins Aerospace engine mounts

Airbus Services company Satair obtained a long-term agreement to distribute Collins Aerospace engine mounts, including detail parts and sub-assemblies, for the CFM LEAP series on the Airbus A320neo aircraft family. Satair will deliver integrated aftermarket customer support globally to operators and repair service providers for the A319neo, A320neo, and A321neo variants.