Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion

Mar 28, 2013
Boeing chairman, president and CEO Jim McNerney expressed confidence in the company’s fix for the 787’s battery system and predicted the aircraft’s grounding will be lifted soon.
Mar 28, 2013
Danish lessor Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) has signed a firm purchase agreement for four Bombardier Q400 NextGens to be placed with Latvian carrier airBaltic.
Mar 28, 2013
Air Berlin and its major shareholder, Etihad Airways, are in talks with Boeing to switch its 787-8 order to the bigger -9 version, CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer told ATW onboard Air Berlin’s first flight from Berlin to Chicago O’Hare
Mar 27, 2013
Lao Central Airlines and Indonesia’s Sky Aviation announced their first Sukhoi Superjet 100s (SSJ100s) have launched their first flights.
Mar 27, 2013
The first Yakutia Airlines’ SSJ100 has arrived at Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co.’s testing complex in Zhukovskiy for modification.
Mar 26, 2013
Airbus has installed its two flight-ready Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines on the first flight-test A350 XWB (MSN001).
Mar 26, 2013
Embraer formally added the previously announced Republic Airways order for up to 94 E-175s to its first-quarter backlog.
Mar 26, 2013
International Lease Finance Corp. (ILFC) has removed its Airbus A321 aircraft from India following a ruling from India’s High Court.