Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Oct 11, 2019
Raytheon and United Technologies shareowners “overwhelmingly” approved all proposals necessary to complete the merger of UTC’s aerospace businesses—Collins Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney—with Raytheon, the companies announced Oct. 11.
Oct 11, 2019
A task force of global civil aviation regulators found gaps in the FAA’s certification process that contributed to insufficient reviews of the Boeing 737 MAX flight control system, and made recommendations aimed at ensuring the aircraft’s airworthiness and improving the agency’s product-approval requirements.
Oct 11, 2019
Narrowbody aircraft capable of long-haul flying will open substantial new market opportunities to LCCs, industry executives said at the CAPA Low-Cost Long-Haul Global Summit in Hamburg.
Oct 10, 2019
Air Astana is targeting international expansion when it receives all seven of its Airbus A321neoLRs, which are expected to take the Kazakhstan-based carrier to a new level, president and CEO Peter Foster told ATW.
Oct 10, 2019
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. hopes to sign up new customers for its SpaceJet aircraft family program by the end of the year, as it pushes ahead with type certification testing for the aircraft.
May 05, 2024
A subscale flight demonstrator of distributed electric propulsion for large passenger aircraft has made its remotely piloted first flight in Italy under Europe’s Clean Sky 2 public-private research program.
May 03, 2024
“The manufacturing of [PW1000G] parts is a little bit of a bottleneck,” MTU CFO Peter Kameritsch said on a recent earnings call.
May 03, 2024
Howmet's John Plant, often seen as a shrewd prognosticator of large aircraft manufacturing rates, has slashed his company’s expectations for 737 shipments.
May 03, 2024
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
May 03, 2024
While overall passenger aircraft recovery in the region is nearly complete, not all operators are equal; each has very different recovery stories.
May 02, 2024
IndiGo's A350 order highlights how Boeing is slipping behind in the region that holds the greatest potential for commercial aviation in the coming decades.
May 02, 2024
India’s DGCA has quickly moved to allow the reclamation of Go First’s leased aircraft, ending a long legal battle over the disposition of its fleet.
May 02, 2024
Regional aircraft OEM ATR has received an order for 10 ATR 72-600 turboprops from Avation, a lessor based in Singapore, for deliveries between 2025-28.