Pratt & Whitney and IndiGo signed a definitive agreement for PurePower PW1100G-JM engines for 150 Airbus A320neo family aircraft. The agreement includes 300 firm PurePower PW1100G-JM engines with additional options and a long-term PureSolution maintenance agreement.
This year’s Farnborough International Airshow turned out to be very successful for MTU Aero Engines, Germany’s leading engine manufacturer. MTU reported orders worth around €1.3bn. “This marks an all-time high in MTU’s history. In terms of value, it’s the biggest order volume we’ve ever secured at a trade show,” says MTU CEO Egon Behle. “Notably
Apollo Aviation Group is the latest leasing company to sign a letter agreement with CFM International, qualifying a mix of 21 CFM56 engines for the company’s TRUEngine program. The TRUEngine designation serves as a method for identifying engines with CFM-approved content and facilitates product support of the engine system. Moreover, industry stakeholders can use the
Bombardier reported that it is on track with its three new Learjet business aircraft as it shared further details of its ongoing development programs.The Learjet 85 aircraft program continues to progress towards first flight with four test aircraft in various stages of fabrication. The first complete pressure fuselage, including the nose and aft fuselage, is
Riga, Latvia-based Air Baltic has signed a letter of intent (LOI) to acquire 10 CS300 aircraft and take purchase rights on a further 10 CS300 jetliners. Based on the list price of the CS300 airliner, a firm-order contract with the network carrier will be valued at approximately US$764m and could increase to US$1.57bn should the
Rolls-Royce has won an order from Garuda Indonesia Airlines for Trent 700 engines to power 11 Airbus A330 aircraft. The contract includes long-term TotalCare service support. The order confirms an announcement made by the airline in April of its intention to purchase Rolls-Royce engines. Garuda Indonesia Airlines will have 24 A330 aircraft powered by Rolls-Royce
ATR and US-based leasing company Air Lease Corporation (ALC) signed a contract for the acquisition of 2 ATR 72-600s. These 72-seat aircraft are the conversion into firm orders of two of the ten options that ATR and ALC included in their first deal, booked in Farnborough 2010. With the purchase of these two aircraft, ALC
Pratt & Whitney will provide exclusive power for 100 Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) aircraft for an order announced by Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation and SkyWest, Inc. The agreement represents 200 PurePower PW1200G engines with deliveries scheduled to begin in 2017. Each Mitsubishi Regional Jet is powered by two PurePower PW1200G engines. To date, Pratt & Whitney
Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation has been selected to install its APS3200 Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) on Nasair’s future purchased and leased Airbus A320 series aircraft and to retrofit Nasair’s nine current A320 aircraft fleet from the Honeywell 131-9A APU to the Hamilton Sundstrand APS3200 APU. Nasair also selected Hamilton Sundstrand for a long-term fixed price agreement
Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, and JSC United Aircraft Corporation (JSC UAC) announced a new long-term agreement that extends the co-operation between the Russian aircraft industry’s companies and Siemens PLM Software in the application of
