Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Mar 07, 2012
Western-built aircraft with more than 100 seats make up 74% of the Russian airline fleet and 28% in the regional fleet.
Mar 07, 2012
LAN Airlines in late 2012 will become the first airline in Latin America to incorporate a Boeing 787 Dreamliner into its fleet.
Mar 06, 2012
Qantas (QF) on Wednesday launched inflight connectivity trials onboard six Airbus A380 aircraft flying to Los Angeles from Sydney and Melbourne. The OnAir connectivity service, using Inmarsat’s SwiftBroadband, will initially be available to customers in the first- and business-class cabins.
Mar 05, 2012
Hainan Airlines (HU) may order Boeing 747-8s aircraft, citing repeated delivery delays of the 787.
Mar 02, 2012
The A350 XWB’s main and nose landing gear test bench is ready for service at the Airbus site in Filton, UK.
Jan 24, 2017
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. will need to produce additional MRJ90 flight test aircraft to gain certification, a consequence of systems revisions that have caused a two-year program delay.
Jan 24, 2017
Irish regional airline CityJet is to acquire Scandinavian Airlines’ (SAS) Danish regional subsidiary Cimber and has signed a conditional purchase agreement for six Bombardier CRJ900s, plus four options.
Jan 24, 2017
Everyone seems to want to be in on the newly lucrative aircraft financing industry.
Jan 23, 2017
Japan Air Commuter—member of the JAL Group—has taken delivery of its first 50-seat ATR 42-600.
Jan 23, 2017
For French-Italian turboprop manufacturer ATR (Avions de Transport Régional), consolidated 2016 firm orders and estimated order values, organized by customer name.
Jan 23, 2017
Turboprop manufacturer ATR logged orders for 36 aircraft and delivered 80 aircraft in 2016, generating a $1.8 billion turnover.
Jan 23, 2017
The flight data recorder (FDR) and the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) retrieved last week from the ACT Airlines Boeing 747 freighter crash site and sent to Moscow for analysis have significant mechanical damage and high temperature traces, according to Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC).
Jan 23, 2017
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), the parent of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., has made official a further two-year delay in the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) program.