LAN Airlines Selects Goodrich for Boeing 767 Thrust Reverser Overhaul

CHARLOTTE, N.C.,

March 10

PRNewswire

LAN Airlines has selected Goodrich Corporation (NYSE: GR) to provide overhaul services for its fleet of Boeing 767 aircraft powered by CF6-80C2 engines. Under the terms of the contract, Goodrich will restore as many as 55 thrust reversers on a schedule predicated by the operational needs of LAN.

The work will take place at Goodrich's Alabama Service Center, an aircraft component/nacelle/thrust reverser Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) facility, located in Foley, Ala. The work will include thrust reversers overhaul as well as maintenance and repair on nacelle components and flight control surfaces.

According to Goodrich's Director of Sales and Marketing at the Foley site, Alex Emme, "LAN Airlines, and its partners in South America, represent a growing marketplace for our services. We are proud of the confidence in our capabilities expressed by LAN, as evidenced by this contract."

Stuart Kay, General Manager of the Alabama Service Center, stated, "This agreement is the beginning of what we expect to be a long lasting relationship with the LAN group of companies and it is strategically in line with our goal of being a full service MRO provider to the airlines."

Goodrich provides the following products and systems as original equipment to Boeing for the 767: main and nose landing gear, evacuations systems, specialty seating, sensors, de-icing systems, fuel nozzles and manifolds as well as actuation and nacelle system components.

Goodrich Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, is a leading global supplier of systems and services to the aerospace and defense industry.

If there's an aircraft in the sky -- we're on it. Goodrich technology is involved in making aircraft fly ... helping them land ... and keeping them safe. Serving a global customer base with significant worldwide manufacturing and service facilities, Goodrich is one of the largest aerospace companies in the world.