Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Sep 09, 2011
TRIP Linhas Aereas and ATR announced that TRIP has committed to 18 new ATR 72-600s, plus options for a further 22.
Sep 08, 2011
Monarch Group, parent of Monarch Airlines (ZB), confirmed it has canceled its order for six Boeing 787s. Boeing mentioned the cancellation of six Dreamliners on its orders and deliveries website last week.
Sep 08, 2011
Boeing has increased its 20-year forecast for new airliner demand in China by almost 700 aircraft compared to just 10 months ago.
Sep 07, 2011
China Eastern Airlines took delivery of its first Boeing 737-700NG outfitted with the high-altitude/high-temperature airport operations feature package and the new sky interior. China Eastern Airlines Sichuan Co. will operate the aircraft at high altitude airports in western China. GECAS delivered two new Boeing 737-800s to Skymark Airlines.
Sep 06, 2011
Boeing has rolled out its first 747-8 Intercontinental from its paint facility in Everett, Washington state, for launch customer Lufthansa (LH).
Nov 02, 2016
China Southern subsidiary Xiamen Airlines has selected GE Aviation GEnx-1B engines to power its additional six Boeing 787-9s from a July 2016 order.
Nov 02, 2016
ATR anticipates the Chinese market will need 300 turboprops over the next 20 years,the European turboprop manufacturer said Nov. 2.
Nov 02, 2016
Teams of investigators, working under the auspices of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), have refined several analyses and conducted additional research in an effort to reconstruct the final minutes of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and to refine the search area in the southern Indian Ocean.
Nov 02, 2016
Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) have agreed to expand the research objectives of their joint technology center in Beijing to support long-term sustainable growth for the aviation industry, the companies announced Nov. 1 at the Zhuhai Airshow.
Nov 01, 2016
Embraer Executive Jets has announced a new version of its Legacy 650 large business jet, the Legacy 650E.
Nov 01, 2016
Accident investigators are puzzling over the causes of the first-ever failure of a second-stage high-pressure (HP) turbine stage on a GE Aviation CF6-80C2 engine, which experienced an uncontained release of debris during the Oct. 28 takeoff run of an American Airlines Boeing 767-300ER from Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
Nov 01, 2016
China Development Bank (CDB) Leasing has chosen CFM International’s LEAP-1A engines for its first batch of Airbus A320neos.