A US National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) investigative hearing into the April inflight engine failure of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 on Nov. 14 honed in on the design and testing of the CFM56-7B engine fan blades and the containment capability of the engine inlet and fan cowl.
Yakutia Airlines is considering modernizing the Russian carrier’s regional fleet with Ilyushin IL-114-300 aircraft as the company plans to retire the Antonov An-24RV.
Chinese and Russian manufacturers will jointly design an engine for the CR929 widebody aircraft being developed by the Chinese-Russian commercial aircraft consortium (CRAIC).
Ethiopian Cargo and Logistics Services took delivery of the airline’s eighth Boeing 777 freighter Nov. 10, the latest step along the company’s growth road map.
FAA has taken steps to resolve the causes of seven outages of its En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) system since 2014, but the air traffic control (ATC) automation platform remains vulnerable, the US Transportation Department inspector general says in audit report released Nov. 9.
FAA has taken steps to resolve the causes of seven outages of its En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) system since 2014, but the air traffic control (ATC) automation platform remains vulnerable, the US Transportation Department inspector general says in audit report released Nov. 9.
Air Tahiti Nui has taken the first step in its planned widebody fleet transition with the commercial debut of its first Boeing 787-9, which was delivered in early October.
France’s civil aviation authority the DGAC has seized a Ryanair aircraft at Bordeaux-Merignac airport in a bid to force the LCC to pay back public funds that were judged illegal by the European Commission (EC) in 2014.
Rolls-Royce will replace turbine blades on some Trent 700 engines powering the Airbus A330 because of corrosion issues the company says are unrelated to the similar, but more widespread, problem affecting operators of Trent 1000-powered Boeing 787s.
Latvian carrier airBaltic is planning to open its first aircraft bases outside of the Baltics after 2020 and is nearing a decision on its Airbus A220 options.
Southern African carrier Air Botswana has taken delivery of the first of two ATR 72-600 turboprops, which were ordered immediately before the Farnborough Air Show in July.
Bombardier plans to sell the Q400 regional turboprop program to Longview Aviation Capital, parent company of Canada’s Viking Air, which previously acquired the rights to out-of-production de Havilland Canada types.
China will need more than 7,400 new passenger and freight aircraft over the next two decades, accounting for nearly 20% of the global demand for 37,400 new aircraft expected by 2037, according to the latest Airbus China Market Forecast.
The Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. is working on improvements to the MRJ70, which will be the second version of the MRJ regional jet to enter service, and is looking increasingly important.
Franco-Italian turboprop manufacturer ATR has released its first-ever market forecast focused on China, estimating the thus-far-nonexistent market for regional turboprops will need 1,100 aircraft, worth $25.6 billion, by 2037.
Virgin Australia is on track to receive its first Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in November 2019 and is not considering further delays to the delivery date. In early 2017 the airline postponed the MAX deliveries, which were originally scheduled to begin in September or October of this year.
An Airbus A330-800 test aircraft completed its maiden flight Nov. 6 from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport over southwestern France, which lasted 4 hrs. and 4 min.
