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Turkish Aerospace Industries has chosen the Light Helicopter Turbine Engine Company’s (LHTEC) CTS800 turboshaft as the powerplant for Turkey’s twin-engine indigenous utility helicopter program.

Pratt & Whitney says retrofits of the F135 engine to enable unlimited operations in the F-35 are happening faster than originally planned and are on track for completion by early 2016.

Sierra Nevada and its Turkish partner STM have established a new company to build updated versions of the Dornier 328 and 328Jet in Turkey.

Turkish Aerospace Industries is displaying its Anka B unmanned aerial system (UAS) as it looks for an export customer.

Pratt & Whitney has taken delivery of a giant welding machine set to play a critical role in the company’s military and commercial engine production.

Airbus is teaming up with Singapore-based MRO provider ST Aerospace and Elbe Flugzeugwerke to give the passenger-to-freighter conversion of its A320/A321 aircraft a second try.

Designed by an Oklahoma State University graduate student, the Unmanned Cowboys Atlas UAV cages its propeller inside a sphere for safe flight indoors and outdoors.

AFI KLM E&M will be able to further expand its international footprint with new facilities and joint ventures despite the Perform 2020 restructuring program, its executives said.

"What a great show," says Jean-Paul Ebanga, president and CEO of CFM International.

Hazy said a stretch of around six meters would allow Airbus to accommodate up to six additional rows on both the lower and upper deck.

The General Electric Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance says it remains in contention to power the potential re-engined A380neo with a comprehensive

MBDA says that it could deliver a working laser weapon to destroy small UAVs or rockets by the end of the decade.

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. has chosen Honeywell’s TPE331-12B turboprop engine for its HTT-40 military training aircraft for the Indian air force.

Fresh off completing a merger with military electronics provider Exelis, Harris CEO Bill Brown is rolling up his sleeves to integrate what he calls two complementary companies.

Airbus and Boeing need to increase output of narrowbody jets to burn off massive backlogs, but lofty production rates the two airframers are talking about probably cannot be sustained over the long run, says the CEO of U.K.-based aerostructures suppliers GKN Aerospace.

Boeing has decided to drop the hybrid laminar flow control drag reduction system from the 777X and may even review its future use on the stretched 787 derivatives.

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation is conducting market research to evaluate the feasibility of a longer stretch of the Mitsubishi Regional Jet.

ATR will most likely not set a new sales record this year and the start of 2015 has been “challenging,” CEO Patrick de Castelbajac acknowledged.

The winners of Aviation Week's Top-Performing Companies study were recognized Tuesday at Aviation Week Network’s Paris AIr Show chalet.

Just when you think a device is reaching an evolutionary plateau, it just keeps going instead.

Gulfstream records the sale of a G600 to Giza-based Cleopatra Group. Cleopatra already operates a G650, and the G600 will be delivered in the second quarter of 2019.

Airborne Technologies’ latest venture is a King Air for Croatia.

Shanghai Avionics Corporation has signed a contract with Elbit Systems of America, LLC, to provide Kollsman enhanced vision system-superior performance infrared cameras for the new COMAC C919 jetliner.

Sichuan Province, China secures a biennial place Farnborough International Ltd. . The Deyang city fathers signed a framework agreement to manage the show in a chalet ceremony at the Paris Air Show.

Airbus Safran Launchers reached an agreement with the French government and CNES to give the new Airbus-Safran joint venture 74% ownership in the European launch consortium.