Aircraft & Engines

Airbus Helicopters has kicked-off the flight test campaign of the public services variant of the H175 medium twin-engine helicopter. An initial flight-test campaign was successfully concluded after 12 flights. This included a demonstration carried out last week with customer Hong Kong’s Government Flying Service (GFS), who became launch customer for this new variant in September

Spirit Airlines, headquartered in Miramar, Florida (U.S.), took delivery of the very first A320neo to be delivered to a U.S. customer. It is the first of 55 A320neo Family aircraft the low-cost carrier has ordered (five leased from AerCap, 50 ordered from Airbus). All of Spirit’s A320neo Family aircraft will be powered by Pratt &

Waypoint Leasing (Ireland) has agreed a lease with Heliconia Group (Heliconia), a regional provider of helicopter transportation and related support services, for one Leonardo AW139 helicopter previously operated by CHC, which will go on lease to support oil and gas operations in North Africa.

AerCap has announced its major business transactions during the third quarter 2016. The company signed lease agreements for 96 aircraft, including 10 widebody and 86 narrowbody aircraft. AerCap purchased 7 aircraft, including 1 Airbus A320neo, 3 Airbus A350-900s, 1 Boeing 787-8 and 2 Boeing 787-9s. The company executed sale transactions for 40 aircraft, including 7

Lease Corporation International (LCI), the aviation leasing arm of the Libra Group, reported the delivery of the first Leonardo AW169 helicopter to Elitaliana SpA. The AW169 is the first of three such aircraft that will be leased from LCI to support Elitaliana’s emergency medical services (EMS) and search and rescue (SAR) operations in Italy. LCI

Cessna Aircraft Company announced the successful first flight of its Citation Longitude super-midsize jet. The flight comes less than a year after the company unveiled new details for the revolutionary aircraft – the company’s latest example of continued investment in its family of larger business jets. The Longitude took off from the company’s east campus

Leonardo-Finmeccanica reported that five firm orders have been signed for AgustaWestland AW169 helicopters by different Brazilian corporate and private customers. The announcement comes following an official presentation of the new generation model to nearly 100 pilots from across Brazil and held at the end of August, introducing capabilities, avionics and interior options available to AW169

Boeing and Qatar Airways signed an order for 30 787-9 Dreamliners and 10 777-300ERs, valued at US$11.7bn at list prices. The airline also signed a Letter of Intent for up to 60 737 MAX 8s, valued at US$6.9bn at list prices. This latest announcement builds on Qatar Airways’ current fleet of 84 Boeing aircraft, a

Intrepid Aviation has concluded a revised agreement with the Boeing Company in respect of its purchase commitment for six firm B777-300ER aircraft. Under this revised agreement, the first two aircraft will continue to deliver new on long-term lease to Philippine Airlines later this month and in December this year, as first announced in June 2015.

AerCap Holdings has confirmed placement of three Embraer E190-E2s and two E195-E2s to Turkish carrier, Borajet Airlines. The aircraft, on long term lease from AerCap’s order book with Embraer, will begin delivering to Borajet Airlines in 2018. The announcement was made at the Istanbul Airshow. AerCap is the launch lessor customer of Embraer’s E-Jets E2