China Aviation Supplies Holding Co. (CAS) has signed a general terms agreement to purchase 70 Airbus aircraft, comprising 43 A320 family aircraft and 27 A330s as part of a deal to extend the A320 assembly at its Tianjin final assembly line (FAL) for 10 years.

GE Aviation announced it will break ground in 2014 on a new $100 million jet engine assembly facility in Lafayette, Indiana.

Russia’s Transaero has signed a leasing deal with China’s ICBC Leasing for six new Airbus A321s.

Turkmenistan Airlines has taken delivery of the first out of two ordered Boeing 777-200LRs.

C&L Aerospace and Rockton, through a joint venture, have purchased 14 Saab 340Bs from Endeavor Airlines, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines.

FAA has issued an airworthiness directive (AD) mandating the removal of “defective software” on GE Aviation GEnx-powered Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental and 747-8 freighter aircraft.

AirAsia India has received its first aircraft, an Airbus A320, in the southern Indian city of Chennai.

Lufthansa Technik (LHT), which has been performing some Airbus A380 wing rib feet repairs for over a year, is about halfway through the repairs.