Afriqiyah Airways has ordered GE’s CF6-80E1 engines to power its three firm and three option Airbus A330 aircraft. The firm engine order is valued at more than $100 million list price. Deliveries will begin in May 2009. Based in Tripoli, Afriqiyah Airways is 100 percent controlled by the Libyan government. The company started in December
Cessna Aircraft Company delivered Citation Mustang unit 100 during a ceremony at the company’s manufacturing facility in southeast Kansas. The first retail Citation Mustang entered service in April 2007, and Cessna delivered 45 Mustangs in 2007. The company expects to deliver a total of 100 Mustangs by the end of 2008, and next year Cessna
Boeing has been awarded a five-year U.S. Army contract valued at $4.3 billion for 181 CH-47F Chinooks and 10 additional Chinooks under Fiscal Year 2008 supplemental funding. There are options in the award for an additional 24 aircraft over the course of the contract.
Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) delivered its Hawker 4000 super-midsized business jet to customer Jack P. DeBoer during a special ceremony at the company’s Customer Delivery Center in Wichita, Kan. The Hawker 4000 capacity and range is designed to meet the needs of customers domestically and internationally. The business jet boasts a maximum cruise speed of
As of 1st of September 2008, Air Atlanta Icelandic will be adding an Airbus A300-600RF to its current fleet of aircraft operating for MASkargo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The contract is signed until the end of 2009. Air Atlanta Icelandic is currently operating four B747 aircraft on behalf of MASkargo, a subsidiary of Malaysia Airlines.
Boeing delivered EgyptAir’s third Next-Generation 737-800. The airplane is the airline’s first 737 to be painted in Star Alliance livery. On July 11, EgyptAir celebrated its induction as the 21st member of Star Alliance, officially expanding its network to 1,624 weekly flights to 69 destinations around the world. The Cairo Airport Authority is scheduled to
Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower PW1000G demonstration engine has completed the first phase of flight testing on a company-owned 747SP flying test bed. The PW1000G engine completed 12 flights and ran approximately 43 hours with tests focused on engine performance and operability. The demonstration engine has been shipped to Toulouse, France, to be installed on an
Global Aircraft Solutions has finalized an agreement to sell a second 737-200 aircraft to Pamir Airways for a fixed price of $2,350,000, of which $2,100,000 has been received, including a previously announced non-refundable deposit of $500,000. This aircraft will be delivered with over $700,000 in new maintenance services, including fresh paint, a fresh heavy maintenance
Cessna Aircraft Company completed the first flight of the first production Citation CJ4 on August 19th, just more than three months after the CJ4 prototype initially flew on May 5th. The 41-minute flight departed McConnell Air Force Base in east Wichita and completed numerous systems evaluations. The first production aircraft, Serial 0001, will primarily be
TAM received, directly from the manufacturing plant in Seattle, the first of eight 777-300ER aircraft acquired from Boeing. The aircraft is slated for use in the company’s daily flights between Sao Paulo and Frankfurt, Germany and Sao Paulo and London. Initially, the new aircraft will be used on the Sao Paulo – Santiago, Chile route
