GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) announced delivery of a new Boeing 737-800 aircraft to Panama’s Copa Airlines to expand its fleet. The aircraft comes from GECAS’ existing order book with Boeing.
According to Airbus’ latest market forecast, Indian carriers will require 1,043 new passenger (1,020) and freighter (23) aircraft valued at $145bn between now and 2030 to satisfy surging annual demand. India’s market for new aircraft makes it the world’s fourth largest in both number of aircraft and value. Indian annual passenger traffic growth rates of
GE Aviation is celebrating the completion of the 1000th GE90-115B engine at its facility in Peebles, Ohio (USA). The engine hit the 1000th mark eight years after it entered service with International Lease Finance Corporation’s customer Air France. More than 1,500 GE90-115B engines have been ordered by customers for their Boeing 777-300ERs, 777-200LRs and 777
Jet Airways and CFM International have celebrated the achievement of three million total engine flight hours by the airline’s fleet of CFM56-7B engines. Jet Airways began operation in May 1993 with four CFM56-3-powered Boeing 737s. Since then, Jet Airways has carried more than 136 million passengers and, today, is one of the most respected airlines
The Japan Ministry of Defense signed a contract on March 8th with Eurocopter to acquire an EC225, heavy twin-engine helicopter, from Eurocopter’s Super Puma family. The Ministry had a fleet of three EC225s, but one of it was submerged during the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. The procurement of the new 11-ton helicopter is
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved type certification for GE Aviation’s H80 turboprop engine. The US FAA engine certification follows similar certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) that the engine received in December. The first aircraft to enter service with the H80 engine will be the Thrush 510G agricultural aircraft. The
The Deucalion Aviation Funds, managed by DVB Bank SE, has entered into a lease agreement with Asiana Airlines for one Boeing 747-400 aircraft which is currently undergoing conversion from passenger to freighter configuration at the IAI Bedek conversion facility. The aircraft , MSN 29375, was manufactured in 1999 and is equipped with four General Electric
Following the recent placement of an ATR42-500 on ACMI lease, Airstream announced its latest successful ACMI placement, this time a Danube Wings ATR72-200 to NextJet in Sweden. The aircraft will operate out of Gallivare, seven days a week to Stockholm and Kramfors. The aircraft is being used to supplement NextJet’s existing fleet of S340’s on
The fleet of European leisure charter carrier Small Planet Airlines, in Poland, has been replenished by another Airbus A320 type of aircraft. It is planed that the carrier will start operating the aircraft in the beginning of April. The new aircraft that had been issued with the SP-HAC registration, landed at the Warsaw International Frederic
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
