20 March 2012

Boeing received an amended type certificate today from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the 787-8 Dreamliner equipped with General Electric GEnx engines. “This is a great day for our customers and for our team who worked tirelessly to ensure the Dreamliner offers breakthrough fuel efficiency, unprecedented performance and new levels of comfort,” said […]

RwandAir of Kigali, Rwanda, signed a firm order for two CRJ900 NextGen regional jets from Bombardier. The transaction also includes options on two additional CRJ900 NextGen aircraft. RwandAir will become the first operator of CRJ900 aircraft in Eastern Africa. Based on the list price of the CRJ900 NextGen airliner, the firm-order contract is valued at

The first FAA Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for Low Plasticity Burnishing (LPB) has been granted to Delta Air Lines’ maintenance division, Delta TechOps, to mitigate fretting induced fatigue cracking in the high pressure compressor section of the CFM56-7. The initial STC, SE03036CH, allows the use of LPB on the first stage blade. LPB was shown

Doric Asset Finance delivered two Airbus A319s to the Tunisian airline Syphax Airlines on 14th and 15th March 2012, respectively. Doric was also mandated with the asset management of the two aircraft. The lease agreements for both Airbus A319s were signed in mid-January whereby Doric acted as a Remarketing Agent for two German Funds from

Dublin based aircraft lessor, AWAS, has delivered a new Airbus A320 passenger aircraft to S7 Airlines in Russia. This is the first of two A320s that AWAS will deliver to S7 Airlines in the first quarter of 2012.