Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
May 18, 2015
Global mobile satellite communications services provider Inmarsat said its Global Xpress (GX) satellite Inmarsat-5 F3 (I-5 F3)—which was scheduled to deploy at the end of the second quarter—will be delayed, following the failure of the preceding Proton Breeze M launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on May 16.
May 15, 2015
Air Serbia will retire its existing fleet of ATR turboprops, and will decide on a replacement within the next two to three years, CEO Dane Kondić said.
May 15, 2015
Philippine Airlines (PAL) is considering either Airbus A350 or Boeing 787 aircraft to replace its aging A340 fleet.
May 14, 2015
The Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) will delay the maiden flight of 150-seat trunk liner C919 to 2016, an industry insider, who asked not to be identified, confirmed to ATW.
May 14, 2015
TUI Group has placed a firm order for a single Boeing 787-9, plus one option, and has switched two of its smaller 787-8s already on order for the larger variant.
Aug 15, 2019
FAA has granted a waiver to a team headed by the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) to fly small drones beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) of an operator using an onboard detect-and-avoid system.
Aug 15, 2019
Production of the Dornier’s 328 turboprop regional airliner looks set to restart back in Germany.
Aug 15, 2019
An Airbus A321 operated by Russia’s Ural Airlines was forced to land in a cornfield Aug. 15 after its CFM-56 engines ingested a flock of sea gulls shortly after takeoff from Moscow’s Zhukovsky International Airport.
Aug 15, 2019
Boeing has confirmed it is sliding the 777-8 development program back after hitting major delays to the 777-9 flight test and certification campaign.
Aug 14, 2019
Embraer posted 2019 second-quarter net profit of $7.2 million, reversed from a $131.4 million loss in the 2018 2Q.
Aug 14, 2019
The entity that will be the rest of Embraer is on course to become a separate operational unit once Boeing takes over the Brazilian OEM’s commercial aircraft business by the end of the year, company leaders said Aug. 14.
Aug 14, 2019
Taiwan’s Far Eastern Air Transport (FAT) is considering its future narrowbody fleet as it phases out all its aging MD-82s over the next three years.
Aug 14, 2019
The Commercial Drone Alliance (CDA) is calling on the FAA and White House to speed the development of regulations allowing the commercial use of large unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs).