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Stephanie Pope to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Boeing (effective January 2024).

Aerospace

AVTRAC and M3 AVIATION GROUP have merged to form single technical consultancy providing lifecycle management.

Aerospace

MATERIALISE, PROPONENT and STIRLING DYNAMICS signed LOI to support the aerospace aftermarket with the design, production, and distribution of certified 3D-printed cabin solutions as EASA Part 21.J DOA partnership.

Aerospace

PPG

PPG opened $17m aerospace application support center in Toulouse to provide filling and packaging capabilities for aerospace materials, including coatings/sealants for wide range of aircraft, as well as technical support and a laboratory.

Aerospace

FAA

FAA released NPRMs for mandating nacelle design changes to 737NG by July 31, 2028. The plan developed by Boeing includes three changes: new inlet spacers and fasteners, a fan cowl support beam, and a stiffer exhaust nozzle.

Aerospace

GE AEROSPACE and partners have tested 100% SAF on 10 engine models.

Aerospace

ULTRAMAIN SYSTEMS was selected by Vueling to provide ULTRAMAIN ELB electronic logbook software to go paperless for fleet of >120 aircraft.

Aerospace

Brian Merker to Chief Financial Officer of Robinson Aircraft (dba Horizon Aircraft), Toronto.

Aerospace

PT. MITRA AVIASI PERKASA was appointed by CPaT Global as its rep in Indonesia.

Aerospace

BOEING delivered 56 aircraft (737NG; 45 737 MAXs; two 767s; two 777Fs; six 787s) in November 2023 vs 48 (737NG; 32 MAXs; 747-8F; six 767s; two 777Fs; six 787s) in Nov 2022. It delivered 461 aircraft in Jan-Nov vs 411 a year ago.

Aerospace

LOCKHEED MARTIN rolled out the first F-35A Lightning II for BELGIUM.

Defense

SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS, Belgium and BMT AEROSPACE, Belgium teamed under MOU with Pratt & Whitney covering a research and technology project to produce F135 structural parts/components for F-35s out of Liège.

Defense

SAFRAN was selected by Egyptian Air Force to maintain M88s for 24 Rafales under its EngineLife services solution.

Defense

ATLANTA HARTSFIELD handled 9.3m pax in October, up 10.3% vs Oct 2022.

Air Transport

US DOT says US scheduled pax/cargo airlines employed 812,381 workers in October vs 746,546 in October 2019.

Air Transport

INPIXON, CA received shareholder approval to merge with XTI AIRCRAFT, CO, which is developing the TriFan 600 VTOL.

Business Aviation

AIRASIA leased ex-MYAirline A320-200 (4070) with CFM56s from Aircastle.

Air Transport

ATLAS AIR took redelivery of 767-300ERF (25864) following conversion by ST Aviation Services; aircraft future is TBA.

Air Transport