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GE Aviation has been awarded a $40 million contract from Southwest Airlines to provide the new SDS-6000 large area display suite for Boeing 737 Classic aircraft. First production deliveries will take place in early 2011. The systems will be installed on up to 150 aircraft. Integrated with the flight management system upgrade awarded to GE
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved the all-new 787 Dreamliner’s scheduled maintenance program. The scheduled maintenance program defines the maintenance tasks and intervals operators will use to maintain the 787 and is documented in the 787 Maintenance Review Board Report (MRBR). The report was accepted by the Maintenance Review Board, an FAA organization composed
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Pratt & Whitney’s PW4000 Advantage70 engine received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) FAR33 certification of the engine’s airworthiness. Advantage70 technology upgrades deliver enhanced engine performance, including a 2 percent thrust increase, a 1 percent reduction in fuel consumption, increased durability, and reduced maintenance costs. The first PW4000-100″ engines with the Advantage70 technology upgrade, which deliver 70,000
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Air Canada announced that it has concluded a secured revolving credit facility with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce which will provide the airline with up to $100 million of revolving credit for a term of one year. Upon closing, Air Canada has drawn funding of $50 million from the credit facility. Additional draw downs
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B/E Aerospace has received a supplemental type certificate (STC) from the FAA which authorizes the company to convert Airbus A300-600 passenger aircraft to freighters. The STC was awarded to B/E Aerospace
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Saudi Arabian Airlines has selected Hamilton Sundstrand to install its APS 3200 Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) on the airline’s new fleet of 50 Airbus A320 series aircraft. Hamilton Sundstrand has delivered more than 1,500 APS 3200 APUs to more than 70 airlines for their fleets of Airbus A320 aircraft.
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Frontier Airlines Holdings filed its Monthly Operating Report for November 2008. Frontier reported a consolidated net profit of $2.9 million and an operating profit of $2.5 million for the month. Included in Frontier’s operating profit were non-cash mark-to-market losses on fuel hedge contracts of $2.0 million. Frontier’s cash position increased to $53.4 million for November
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Delta Air Lines has completed its offering of common stock. The company sold 18,172,219 shares of common stock through a continuous offering program equity distribution agreement with Citi, generating gross proceeds of approximately $196 million. All of the shares of stock sold in this offering were withheld, as the employee portion of withholding taxes on
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The world’s first commercial aviation test flight powered by the sustainable second-generation biofuel jatropha has been successfully completed in Auckland. More than a dozen key performance tests were undertaken in the two hour test flight which took-off at 11:30am (NZ time) from Auckland International Airport. A biofuel blend of 50:50 jatropha and Jet A1 fuel
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