StandardAero to provide repair, overhaul support on MT7 engine

StandardAero (SARO) announced it has reached a long-term agreement with Rolls-Royce to provide defined repair and overhaul support from its Maryville, TN facility on the MT7 marine gas turbine engine that powers the U.S. Navy’s Ship to Shore Connector, SSC, vehicle. The SSC program, which began as a replacement for the Landing Craft, Air Cushion, LCAC, vehicle, was designed to access roughly 80% of the world’s coastlines, and to provide greater payload capacity for weapons, equipment, cargo, and personnel from amphibious ships to land.