Aircraft & Engines

BOC Aviation delivered the first of three Boeing 737-800 aircraft to Turkish low-cost airline Pegasus Airlines. The remaining two are scheduled for delivery within the next three months.

GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), delivered a leased Airbus A330-200 aircraft to Deutsche Lufthansa A.G. The aircraft is the first of up to seven leased A330-200s scheduled for delivery to Lufthansa through 2017 as part of the carrier’s fleet expansion. The remaining aircraft are currently leased by GECAS to other airline customers around the world.

MTU Aero Engines will have a stake in the LM6000-PF+ (PF+), the latest version of General Electric’s (GE) LM6000 aeroderivative gas turbine series. Germany’s leading engine manufacturer has taken a 13% work share as a risk- and revenue-sharing partner in the development and production of this industrial gas turbine, which is derived from the CF6

Rolls-Royce has reached an agreement worth US$2.4bn for engines and services with HNA Group. HNA Group is a conglomerate with interests in aviation, financial services, tourism and hospitality, logistics, real estate and retail. HNA Aviation currently operates and manages, amongst others, Hainan Airlines, Tianjin Airlines and Capital Airlines, flies to over 250 cities and serves

Boeing and Norwegian have finalized an order for 19 787-9 Dreamliners valued at more than US$5bn at current list prices. The order also includes options for 10 more 787-9s, as the carrier looks to significantly grow its existing long-haul fleet into the next decade. It is the largest single order for 787-9s from a European

GE Aviation assembled the 1,000th GEnx engine, just a mere five years after the first production engine was built at GE’s Durham, North Carolina. The first GEnx engine entered service on a Boeing 747-8 aircraft in 2011, and the engine program has accumulated five million flight hours and 900,000 cycles. Production volume of the GEnx