Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) had successfully completed the placement of 14 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft with two long-standing customers. The order was placed with Boeing in March 2021. Aeroméxico will receive 12 aircraft and Icelandair will receive two aircraft. Deliveries commenced in October 2021 and all aircraft are scheduled to be delivered before the
AutoFlight, the Chinese eVTOL pioneer, continues its global expansion and is establishing its first location in Europe. A team led by former Airbus manager Mark R. Henning is now ramping up at Augsburg Airport in Germany. The team’s first task is to achieve European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification for AutoFlight’s air taxi ‘Prosperity I’,
The national airline of the Maldives, Island Aviation Services (dba. Maldivian) and ATR have signed a contract for the purchase of the airline’s first ATR aircraft: two ATR 72-600s and one ATR 42-600. The three aircraft will be delivered in 2022. The ATR 72-600s and ATR 42-600 will benefit from the new PW127XT engines, offering
AerCap Holdings (AerCap) has announced its major business transactions during the full-year and fourth quarter 2021: AerCap completed the GECAS transaction on November 1, 2021, making AerCap a worldwide industry leader across all areas of aviation leasing: aircraft, engines and helicopters. During the full year 2021 the company raised long-term funding of approximately US$30.5 billion,
TrueNoord, the specialist regional aircraft lessor, has delivered two new ATR 42-600s to existing lessee Silver Airways. The aircraft join the ATR 72-600 delivered to Silver Airways in May 2021, increasing TrueNoord’s portfolio with the American passenger and cargo regional carrier to three aircraft. Garry Topp, TrueNoord Sales Director – Americas, comments: “It is very
Texel Air, an established airline and MRO based in the Kingdom of Bahrain, has launched the latest addition to its fleet and the very-first for the region, a 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF). The 737-800BCF is a full-freighter aircraft that is highly in demand in the global air cargo market and is the first of
Hans Airways, the UK’s newest airline, which is preparing to launch scheduled flights to India this year, has secured its first aircraft – signing a Letter of Intent for an Airbus A330-200 (MSN 950) in the first week of the New Year. The aircraft has been operating with a leading European airline since 2008, configured in
In a new re-marketing transaction,TrueNoord, the specialist regional aircraft lessor, has entered into a new four-year operating lease agreement with Amelia International, part of the Regourd Aviation Group. The ATR72-212F (MSN 461) cargo aircraft was previously leased by ASL Airlines Ireland. It will be transitioned into Amelia International’s regional fleet and be based in Ljubljana,
Having cooperated with Embraer since 2014, Falco Regional Aircraft Limited (Falco), a global leader in the leasing of commercial aircraft, has announced that it has signed a Letter of Intent in relation to a potential order for 200 Eve electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft as part of a commercial partnership to develop a
Savback Helicopters, the expanding helicopter sales and marketing company and Dufour Aerospace, an innovative Swiss eVTOL company, have announced Savback’s appointment as distributor for Dufour’s innovative eVTOL aircraft. Sweden-based Savback Helicopters will exclusively represent Dufour Aerospace’s eight-seater Aero3 tilt-wing aircraft in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland. “We strongly believe that Dufour Aerospace’s eight-seater Aero3
