18 June 2010

Rolls-Royce reported the first run of the Trent XWB, the latest member of its Trent aero engine family. The Trent XWB, the fastest-selling Trent engine programme ever, with more than 1,000 ordered, ran for first time on June 17 on a testbed in Derby, UK. The engine

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner flight test fleet passed 1,000 hours of testing on June 17th. The program estimates that it is about 40 percent through the test conditions required to certify the first version of the all-new jetliner. “More work remains but we are seeing excellent progress in flight test,” said Scott Fancher, vice president

AWAS reported the lease of 7 new Airbus aircraft to Royal Jordanian to replace 6 Airbus aircraft currently operating in the fleet. The replacement consists of 4 A320s and 2 A321s and an additional A320 to be assimilated into the fleet. The first delivery is scheduled for April of next year when 3 A320s will

The first Boeing NG aircraft, a 1999 vintage B737-600, has been sold to CT Aerospace for part-out. The aircraft is currently being dismantled at Cotswold Airport in Gloucestershire. The aircraft, formerly owned by FlyGlobespan who entered Administration in December 2009, had recently been returned off a sub-lease from Midwest Airlines in Egypt. PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Joint