AviaAM Leasing, a Warsaw Stock Exchange listed global aviation holding company engaged in commercial aircraft acquisition, leasing and sales, announced the delivery of the third Airbus A319 aircraft to a Russian regional carrier Aurora Airlines. Prior to the delivery, the aircraft was fully refurbished and customized in accordance with new operator‘s requirements. The aircraft was
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) reported the delivery of two leased Airbus A320 aircraft to AtlasGlobal to expand the Turkish carrier’s fleet. AtlasGlobal operates scheduled and charter services from its base in Instanbul with a fleet of some 20 aircraft.
Embraer Commercial Aviation released its market forecast for Asia Pacific at the Singapore Airshow, which includes China. The Company believes that airlines will take delivery of 1,570 new jets in the 70 to 130-seat segment over the next 20 years (valued at US$75bn, at list prices), representing 25% of the worldwide demand for the segment,
ATR and the Singapore-based commercial aircraft lessor Avation announced an agreement for the purchase of five new ATR 72-600 aircraft. At list prices the acquisition is valued at about US$130m and brings to 35 the total number of firm ATR 72s ordered by Avation since their first ATR purchase in 2011. As of today, Avation
AerFin reported the delivery of one Airbus A340-300, MSN 142, from Cathay Pacific Airlines during February. MSN 142 is the fifth aircraft to be delivered to AerFin as part of the end-of-life solution for Cathay Pacific’s fleet of 11 A340-300 aircraft. This aircraft will be disassembled for spare parts recovery, with serviceable inventory stored at
AWAS has delivered on lease one 737-800 passenger aircraft with Sriwijaya Air, a privately held scheduled service and charter airline serving Indonesia, Malaysia, China and the Philippines. This aircraft comes from AWAS’ existing portfolio.
Cirrus Aircraft reported that new aircraft shipments in 2015 exceeded 300 for the second year in a row. New unit deliveries for 2015 totaled 301 while the global Cirrus fleet surpassed 6,200 total SR aircraft and amassed over seven million flight hours. In addition to new SR series deliveries, the revolutionary Vision Jet program continued
Final assembly is underway on the first full GE9X engine that will test in the first half of 2016, four years before the GE9X engine enters service on a Boeing 777X aircraft. The first engine to test (FETT) wraps up the extensive technology maturation program for the GE9X engine program, which began almost five years
The first A321neo equipped with CFM International LEAP-1A engines completed its maiden flight on February 9th from Hamburg, Germany. The flight lasted five hours and 29 minutes during which tests were performed on the engine speed variation (low/high), systems behaviour and to validate the aircraft’s flight envelope. The A321neo will join the NEO flight test
The new LEAP engine from CFM International, the 50/50 joint company between Snecma (Safran) and GE, has passed the milestone of 10,000 orders and commitments. The LEAP engine has already been selected by the world’s leading planemakers for their new-generation single-aisle commercial jets: the LEAP-1A for the Airbus A320neo, the LEAP-1B for the Boeing 737
