Aircraft & Engines

In cooperation with the U.S. Army, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. has successfully demonstrated optionally piloted flight of a Black Hawk helicopter, a significant step toward providing autonomous cargo delivery functionality to the U.S. Army. The Optionally Piloted Black Hawk (OPBH) Demonstrator, known as Sikorsky’s Manned/Unmanned Resupply Aerial Lifter (MURAL) Program, conducted the successful first flight demonstration

Aeronautical Engineers, has delivered the second of three B737-400SF 11 Pallet freighters to Yangtze River Express of Shanghai. The aircraft is a standard gross weight Boeing 737-400 (MSN 29914) built in 1998 and was converted at the Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services facility in Shanghai, which is one of five authorized AEI Conversion Centers worldwide. This

Avolon delivered a Boeing 737-800 NG to Lion Air on Tuesday, April 15th. This is the final of a six Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft sale and leaseback with Lion Air.

Marshall Aviation Services’ aircraft brokerage business, JETability, has enjoyed a strong first quarter with a notable number of international sales transactions. Led by experienced Sales Director, Howard Povey, the business has sold three aircraft – a Cessna CJ2+, an Agusta Westland 109E Power, and an Airbus Helicopter AS355N. Howard and the team have built up

Boeing delivered the 8,000th 737 to come off the production line to United Airlines, marking another important milestone for Boeing’s best-selling airplane. The airplane, a Next-Generation 737-900ER (Extended Range), features a special logo. The 737 is the first commercial airplane in history to reach this delivery milestone. The program has a strong backlog with more

Another milestone in the Falcon 7X program was reached this week with the roll-out of the 250th aircraft at Dassault Aviation’s Charles Lindbergh Hall in Mérignac near Bordeaux, France. The aircraft entered final assembly earlier this year. It will fly to the Falcon completion center in Little Rock, Arkansas in June and will be delivered

MD Helicopters, the Arizona, USA-headquartered manufacturer of a range of multi mission helicopters is marking 15 years of rotary sales activity in the Asian region by exhibiting for the first time at this year’s Asian Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition, ABACE 2014, currently taking place in Shanghai. MD Helicopters is promoting its complete range including

Bombardier Aerospace confirmed Minsheng Financial Leasing as the customer who placed an order for 10 Challenger 350 jets on December 30, 2013. The announcement was marked by a special ceremony attended by Bombardier and Minsheng Financial Leasing executives at the Asian Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (ABACE) in Shanghai, China, on April 15, 2014.