Honeywell has been selected by Allegiant Air to provide maintenance, repair and overhaul services for its auxiliary power units and select avionics components across its fleet of new Airbus A319 and A320 aircraft. The agreement also includes the replacement of non-Honeywell auxiliary power units (APUs) with Honeywell’s 131-9A version, ensuring commonality across the Allegiant fleet. […]
MTU Maintenance, one of the world’s leading provider of MRO services for commercial aircraft engines and industrial gas turbines, has laid the foundation stone for a new logistics center at its Ludwigsfelde location on July 20. The total investment for the new building with a workspace of 6,500 m² is €11.5 million. The additional floor
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AFI KLM E&M and China Eastern Airlines have signed a component support contract for the Chinese company’s Boeing 787-9 fleet, which will eventually include 15 aircraft. The agreement covers repair services, access to a regional spare parts pool as well as the provision of a local parts stock, and additional services in the field of
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Less than 24 hours after the presentation of the Airbus A380 to the industry and the start of related marketing activities, Hi Fly agreed the first wet lease contract for the A380 with an undisclosed well established European Carrier. The aircraft will be flying long haul sectors during summer period with possible extension. The market
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The Rolls-Royce Trent 7000, which powers Airbus’s latest aircraft, the A330neo, has received its ‘ticket to fly’ from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), with the first production engines also delivered to the Airbus facility in Toulouse, France. The Trent 7000 is the fourth Rolls-Royce engine to receive formal certification in just 12 months, following
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The Gulfstream G500 received both its type certification and production certificate from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). These certifications pave the way for the first completed G500 delivery to a customer as planned later this year. The FAA type certification verifies the airworthiness of the aircraft’s design, while the production certificate confirms that the
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Bombardier Commercial Aircraft announced today that it has signed a firm order for four new CRJ900 regional jets with Uganda National Airlines Company. Based on the list price for the CRJ900 aircraft, the firm order is valued at approximately US$190 million. Uganda Airlines will operate the CRJ900 in dual-class configuration with 76 seats, including 12
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During the second quarter of 2018, Embraer has delivered 28 jets to the commercial aviation market and 20 business jets, being 15 light jets and 5 large jets. On June 30, Embraer’s firm order backlog totaled US$17.4 billion. In 2Q18, Embraer celebrated a major milestone when Norway’s Widerøe took delivery of the first production E190-E2
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Cusco Aviation, an Aircraft Leasing and Trading company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, has successfully completed the purchase of one RB211-535 engine. Manuel E. Cordero, the company’s President and CEO commented on this transaction “The Cusco Aviation team is proud to complete another Engine transaction, which adds to its expansion plans and transaction
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Delta Air Lines and WestJet have signed a definitive agreement to create a comprehensive transborder joint venture arrangement that will offer customers an extensive route network within the U.S. and Canada. The agreement deepens the existing codeshare partnership between the carriers and follows the signing of a memorandum of understanding in December 2017 announcing the
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