Onur Air, Turkey’s largest privately-owned airline company and WheelTug announced the execution of a Letter of Intent under which Onur Air, subject to all financial, technical and operational feasibility checks and necessary regulatory approvals, has the right to lease WheelTug Aircraft Drive Systems for installation on 22 of its Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft. With
BOC Aviation has signed agreements for the lease of two new Airbus A321-200 aircraft to Asiana Airlines. The aircraft, powered by IAE2533-A5 SelectOne engines, are scheduled for delivery in the second half year of 2013.
ST Aerospace‘s Scandinavian facility, ST Aerospace Solutions, has formed an alliance with ST Aerospace’s joint venture company Madrid Aerospace Services (MAeS), to provide global landing gear maintenance services for the Airbus A320 family, A330 and A340 and Boeing 737NG, MD80, MD90 aircraft platforms. Leveraging landing gear repair and overhaul expertise and customer base of both
GKN Aerospace has been awarded a contract for the design, development and production of transparencies for the Bombardier Global 7000 and Global 8000 business jets. The contract includes both the cockpit and passenger cabin windows for these ultra long-range business jets. Design, development and production will take place at the GKN Aerospace facility in Garden
The Philippines’ largest airline, Cebu Pacific Air (CEB), has selected Messier-Bugatti-Dowty (Safran group) wheels and brakes for its fleet of Airbus A319 and A320 twinjets. The contract covers the current fleet, as well as future aircraft to be acquired. With 30 Airbus aircraft in its current fleet and over 50 more on order, CEB joins
Pratt & Whitney and IAE International Aero Engines (IAE) shareholders, Japanese Aero Engines Corporation and MTU Aero Engines GmbH, announced details of the June 29 closing of Pratt & Whitney’s agreement to purchase Rolls-Royce’s program share in the IAE Collaboration. Pratt & Whitney has increased its program share to 61% and MTU Aero Engines has
Engine Lease Finance Corporate has become the first spare engine lessor customer for CFM International’s new product offering for leasing companies called Portable Maintenance for Lessors (PML). The two companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with plans to sign a definitive agreement by year-end. “Our leasing company customers have been asking us for a
Airbus has decided to offer a further enhanced version of the popular A330 airliner by increasing the maximum takeoff weight capability to 240 metric tonnes. This 240 tonne capability will be first applied to the larger A330-300 model and subsequently to the A330-200 and A330-200F. The respective performance improvements are as follows: The 240 tonne
The U.S. Army and Navy signed an $8.5bn contract with Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., to buy a baseline quantity of 653 BLACK HAWK and SEAHAWK helicopters through December 2017. The five-year contract will yield significant savings for the U.S. Government compared with purchasing the same quantity across five separate annual agreements. The five-year agreement also allows
Bombardier Aerospace released that a new customer, which has requested to remain unidentified at this time, has placed a conditional order for five CS100 and 10 CS300 jetliners. Based on the list prices of CS100 and CS300 aircraft, the contract is valued at approximately US$1.02bn.
