Aircraft & Propulsion

GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) delivered a Boeing 777-300ER to Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in Tel Aviv for the prototype passenger-to-freighter conversion on June 4.

The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels have received their first Super Hornet aircraft, which will undergo flight testing and evaluation at Naval Air Station

The U.S. FAA will order Boeing 777 operators to validate the accuracy of fuel-quantity check systems following reports that inaccurate tank status data caused aircraft to depart with too little fuel for their planned missions, leading to at least 10 diversions.

Ask the Editors: EASA and the FAA have issued recent guidance to reinforce proper use of biocides.

Bombardier’s exit from commercial aerospace was finalized yesterday with the sale of its CRJ aircraft program to Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in a deal including its maintenance support services.

Fuel microbes thrive in heat and humidity. At a time when thousands of aircraft are parked, and not spending time at altitude where it’s much colder, the chance of contamination is higher than normal.

The company is offering parking services and seeking Federal assistance, but has had to cut back operations and furlough staff dramatically.

Fewer flights are bad news across the aftermarket, but as the response to coronavirus plays out, different types of suppliers will suffer and rebound

European airlines, like others around the world, are caught between a hope for rapid recovery of traffic and an increasing worry about a very slow

As this new decade begins, 2020 is shaping up to be a groundbreaking year for the burgeoning space tourism industry. A report issued by UBS, the

After burbling the background for several years, talk of a Boeing 777-200 conversion program is set to reach fever pitch as COVID-19 thrusts the cargo

Karolis Matulaitis, director at Kaunas International Airport, talks to James Pozzi about the changes to the operation during the novel coronavirus

Coronavirus has affected the hot, dry nations of the Middle East more gently than most regions, with fatalities from 6-29 per million, versus a global

Figuring out how to make passengers comfortable boarding aircraft again, without having to block off middle seats indefinitely, is a problem the

U.S. maintenance provider AAR plans to close its facility at Duluth, Minnesota by late July following a decrease in work related to the impacts of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Within the past three years, British engine maker Rolls-Royce has been forced to pay almost $1 billion to settle a multinational bribery investigation

Ask the Editors: Airlines will be in cash-preservation mode as long as they can, so this year and 2021 could be tough for maintenance.

Neil Russell, chief operating officer at Aero Norway, discusses the engine MRO acquiring more engine models and looking at remote video for inspection work during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

C Cubed Aerospace hopes to receive an FAA supplemental type certificate for its Airbus A320 passenger-to-freighter conversion by the end of 2020, and another following not too far behind for its A321 conversion. The timing could be good given changes in the cargo-conversion dynamic.

“Ike” Eisenhower’s Connie is the only privately-owned former Air Force One saved from the scrap heap

India applied some of the most severe virus-retarding restrictions to both aviation and its economy generally.

Ask the Editors: Anything that lowers trip costs is a benefit to carriers right now, with a predicted shift to lower-capacity aircraft.

With coronavirus taking an increasing toll in Brazil, the country’s airlines have had to follow their peers around the world and ground progressively more aircraft.

The climbing robot will enable airlines and MROs to detect aircraft damage remotely through non-destructive testing data.

Reaffirming current protocols and developing new ones are both in the cards.