Cessna’s new Citation M2, announced less than six months ago, made its first prototype flight on March 9th. The flight lasted a little more than an hour and a half and included tests of the avionics system, autopilot, engine system, aircraft systems and instrument approaches. The prototype took off and landed at Wichita, Kan., Mid-Continent
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) delivered a new Boeing 737-800 aircraft to Japanese low-cost airline Solaseed Air to help them with their fleet upgrade. The aircraft comes from GECAS’ existing order book with Boeing. Solaseed Air, the new brand name of Skynet Asia, is transitioning out of its Boeing 737-400 fleet to an all-new Boeing
AWAS has signed a formal agreement with aircraft manufacturer Airbus, to become one of the first lessors to be able to offer its customer airlines the significant fuel savings of aircraft fitted with factory-build Sharklets. The advanced end-of-wing Sharklet system has been developed by Airbus to save airlines up to $270k on fuel per aircraft
Eurolot S.A. of Warsaw, Poland has signed a firm order to acquire eight Q400 NextGen airliners. The transaction includes options for an additional 12 Q400 NextGen aircraft. Based on the list price for the Q400 NextGen airliner, the firm order contract is valued at approximately $246m. The contract value would increase to $625m, should all
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted 330-minute extended-range, twin-engine operations (ETOPS) Approval to 14 CFR Part 33.201 for the GEnx-1B Performance Improvement Program (PIP) engine, which will power the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. This follows the 330-minute ETOPS approval that was granted to the GEnx-1B baseline engine late last year. The FAA approval
Silver Airways has reached an agreement with Saab Aircraft Leasing to purchase six additional Saab 340Bplus aircraft. Financial terms were not disclosed. This latest acquisition brings the total number of Saab 340’s to 12 in the Silver Airways fleet. Silver Airways will integrate all 12 Saab 340Bplus’ into its fleet by September 2012. Each aircraft
Boeing has completed all flight tests expected to be required for type certification of the 787-8 Dreamliner with General Electric GEnx engines. This marks the end of all certification flight testing associated with the baseline model of the 787. Testing on engine and airframe improvements will continue as needed, as it does for all airplane
Bristol Associates, as remarketing agent for Continental Airlines, has completed the sale of an additional three co-owned 1997 vintage B737-524 aircraft (MSNs 28903/28906/28909) to BLF Limited (Bermuda). The aircraft will be operated by UTair (Surgut, Russia).
AWAS has delivered a second A320 passenger aircraft to Virgin America. This is the sixth Airbus aircraft that AWAS has placed with Virgin America over their five year business relationship.
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) reported the delivery of a new, CFM-powered Airbus A320 to GoAir following a purchase and leaseback transaction with the airline. The aircraft, which was inducted into the GoAir fleet a number of weeks ago, comes from the airline’s existing order book with Airbus. GoAir currently operates over 150 flights per
