The Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) has won orders for 10 150-seat C919s and 10 ARJ21 regional aircraft from Thailand’s City Airways and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Financial Leasing Co. (ICBC).

Embraer Commercial Aviation forecasts that China will take delivery of 1,020 new 70- to 130-seat aircraft in the next 20 years.

Aircraft News-Sept. 15, 2015

Alaska Airlines will turn some of its passenger aircraft into full freighters, as part of a larger strategy to retire its aging fleet of Boeing 737-400s.

Inmarsat has published the results of evaluation trials conducted earlier this year with Australia’s air navigation services provider (ANSP), Airservices Australia, to demonstrate oceanic flight tracking using Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Contract (ADS-C) to meet ICAO’s new global standard of a minimum 15-minute reporting interval from the end of 2016.

Boeing has begun final assembly on schedule of the first 737 MAX 8 at its Renton, Washington, facility, the US manufacturer said in a statement.

Embraer has confirmed the 18 E-175s SkyWest Airlines is adding to United Express service are new firm orders

The R2-D2 All Nippon Airways (ANA) Boeing 787-9 rolled-out from the Boeing Everett Factory for the first time Sept. 14.