Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Jul 29, 2009
Honeywell announced that AWAS has selected an avionics suite and APUs under a contract covering up to 110 new aircraft deliveries and worth $77 million.
Jul 29, 2009
Ethiopian Airlines yesterday said it placed an order for 12 A350-900s from Airbus and five 777-200LRs from Boeing, a move it called "unprecedented," while Turkish Airlines added eight more 777-300ERs to its order book.
Jul 29, 2009
Safi Airways Chairman Abdul Rahim Safi said the Afghan airline "has progressed so quickly in the past four months" that it will "undergo a major renewal of its fleet with either Boeing or Airbus aircraft," according to the airline. It currently flies two 737-300s and one 767-200ER. It plans to use new aircraft to serve Jeddah, Beijing and Moscow within the next six months.
Jul 29, 2009
Rolls-Royce yesterday announced a series of investments including construction of a new wide-chord fan blade factory in Singapore and several new UK facilities. The Singapore factory will be a part of Rolls' "Facility of the Future" at its Seletar Campus, construction of which will begin in the 2010 first quarter and which will require an investment greater than S$700 million ($486 million).
Jul 28, 2009
Third prototype Sukhoi Superjet 100 flew for the first time Saturday at Komsomolsk. Aircraft will undergo cabin and avionics testing and will be the first fitted with passenger equipment and the certification-ready avionics suite. It then will be sent to Italy for its noise level, ILS, precision navigation and high-intensity radiated field tests. The first Superjet flight took place in May 2008 with the certification campaign commencing in October. The first two aircraft have accumulated more than 700 flight hr. over some 270 flights, said Sukhoi, which has sold 122 so far.
Sep 12, 2019
Tunisair Express, the regional subsidiary of the North African nation’s flag carrier, has ordered three ATR 72-600 regional turboprops.
Sep 12, 2019
Boeing is warning that escalating trade tensions between the US and China—the US manufacturer’s largest single market—may soon threaten prospective aircraft sales, particularly the company’s lucrative twinjet 777 and 787 families.
Sep 12, 2019
Mitsubishi introduced the SpaceJet M100 at the Paris Air Show in June, part of a major shake-up of its regional-jet strategy.
Sep 11, 2019
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg remains confident regulators will clear the 737 MAX to fly again this year, but suggested the volume of requests and growing variance between regulators is making that target more difficult to meet.
Sep 10, 2019
Airbus and Boeing commercial aircraft deliveries for 2019 year-to-date, sorted by most-recent delivery date.
Sep 10, 2019
Airbus and Boeing commercial aircraft gross orders for 2019 year-to-date, sorted by most-recent date of order placement with manufacturer.
Sep 10, 2019
A combination of increased capacity at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport and the arrival of larger aircraft in the fleet will bring brighter prospects for Turkish LCC Pegasus Airlines, CEO Mehmet Nane said.
Sep 10, 2019
FAA is proposing inspections and replacement of certain Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan oil system components to eliminate an issue linked to at least two inflight shutdowns.