Aircraft & Engines

CDB Aviation, a wholly owned Irish subsidiary of China Development Bank Financial Leasing (CDB Leasing), has entered into a facility agreement for the secured portfolio of 13 Airbus and Boeing aircraft, valued at approximately US$660 million. The transaction brings the lessor’s executed financings year-to-date to a total of US$2.53 billion. The first large-sized portfolio financing

Chorus Aviation Capital (CAC) has entered into agreements to lease two Dash 8-400 aircraft to Waltzing Matilda Airlines, doing business as Connect Airlines. CAC expects to deliver the aircraft in September and November 2021. These two aircraft are the last two remaining Dash 8-400s previously operated by Flybe and re-possessed by CAC in 2020. Inclusive

Following the first-time display at MAKS Air Show in Moscow and looking at the second engine delivery in support of the certification program, the Russian aircraft manufacturer Baikal-Engineering has chosen GE Aviation’s H80 engine with Electronic Engine and Propeller Control (EEPC) to power its brand-new single-engine multi-purpose utility aircraft. The H80 turboprop engine, built and developed by

Aviation data and advisory consultancy IBA, has outlined a divergence in value trends between narrow-body and wide-body aircraft driven by a surge in domestic travel in certain markets, but continuing low levels of international travel globally. In a recent aircraft values webinar, IBA illustrated how a surge in domestic passenger flights, driven largely by rapidly