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By Stephen Costley
BOMBARDIER has agreed to sell its aerostructures and aftermarket services businesses in Belfast, Casablanca, and Dallas to SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS in deal
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By Stephen Costley
J.P. MORGAN is forecasting delivery of 379 Boeing/881 Airbus/40 Embraer aircraft in 2019; 1,000 Boeing/930 Airbus/63 Embraer aircraft in 2020; 1,057
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By Stephen Costley
COMAC made first flight of fifth C919 flight test aircraft at Shanghai; aircraft will be used for flight tests in special weather conditions (high
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By Stephen Costley
AIRBUS opened 3,000 sq meter E-Aircraft Systems House test facility on its site at Taufkirchen/Ottobrunn, Germany for researching technologies for
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By Stephen Costley
STELIA AEROSPACE opened €40m facility in Santo Tirso, Portugal for assembling aerostructure subassemblies for delivery to its factories in Méaulte and
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By Stephen Costley
AJW GROUP extended power-by-the-hour contract with Air Astana, Kazakhstan for its Boeing aircraft: four 757s and three 767s.
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By Stephen Costley
ATELIERS BIGATA was selected by Spairliners to provide E-Jet component repairs starting in 2020.
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By Stephen Costley
HAECO ITM has Air Hong Kong contract to provide inventory (component) technical management support for two A330-300Fs.
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By Stephen Costley
S7 TECHNICS was approved by Sukhoi Civil Aircraft to design/manufacture leather seat covers for SSJ100 at Novosibirsk.
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By Stephen Costley
STANDARDAERO was selected by Cape Air to provide PT6A maintenance/repair/overhaul for its Cessna Caravan EX seaplanes.
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By Stephen Costley
QATAR AIRWAYS was licensed by GE Aviation to use GE360 Foam Wash self-contained engine cleaning technology; system works by injecting a heated
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By Stephen Costley
GEMINI AIR GROUP was appointed by Twin Commander as an authorized service center out of 60,000 sq ft facility in Scottsdale.
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By Stephen Costley
FAA revoked the repair station certificate of XTRA AEROSPACE, FL for it says failing to comply with requirements to repair only aircraft parts on its
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By Stephen Costley
GE AVIATION earned $1.72b on $8.11b revenues in 3Q19 vs $1.67b on $7.48b in 3Q18, and it delivered 714 commercial aviation engines (455 LEAPs) in 3Q19
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By Stephen Costley
PRATT & WHITNEY earned $471m on $5.3b sales in 3Q19 vs $109m on $4.8b in 3Q18; it delivered 165 large commercial aircraft engines, 53 military engines
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By Stephen Costley
COLLINS AEROSPACE SYSTEMS earned $1.2b on $6.5b sales in 3Q19 vs $610m on $4b in 3Q18.
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By Stephen Costley
MTU AERO ENGINES earned €125.5m in 3Q19 (vs €118.3m in 3Q18) on 1% lower revenues. It has €20.8b backlog.
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By Stephen Costley
EATON AEROSPACE earned $129m on $513m sales in 3Q19 vs $105m on $478m in 3Q18; margins were record 25.1%.
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By Stephen Costley
AFI KLM E&M earned €75m in 3Q19 (vs €77m in 3Q18) on 9.6% higher revenues; third party revenues rose 11%.
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By Stephen Costley
SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS had $131m net income on $1.9b revenues in 3Q19 vs $169m on $1.8b in 3Q18 and says Boeing's decrease in 787 production to 12 per
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By Stephen Costley
SAFRAN had €6.1b revenues in 3Q19 vs €5.3b in 3Q18; Aerospace Propulsion rose 18.3% (civil aftermarket increased 18.6%); to date in 2019, the total
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By Stephen Costley
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $34b US DOD contract to produce 478 F-35s (Lots 12-14; 291 for US, 127 for international partners and 60 for FMS) at the lowest
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By Stephen Costley
INDONESIA late last week issued final report by air accident investigators into crash of Lion Air 610, determinating design and certification of MCAS
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By Stephen Costley
ITALY has again delayed deadline for any presentation of a formal business plan for ALITALIA as no investors have come forward.
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By Stephen Costley
JETLINES postponed planned startup after failing to secure C$40m in financing from SmartLynx and InHarv ULCC Growth Fund.
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