FLY Leasing completed the acquisition of a $1.4 billion portfolio of 49 aircraft. These 49 aircraft increase FLY’s fleet to a total of 109 aircraft on lease to 53 airlines in 29 countries. The purchase price was fully funded from FLY’s existing unrestricted cash and the assumption of existing non-recourse debt. The portfolio consists of 23 Airbus […]
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Peter Somers will succeed Roland van Dijk, with effect from 1 November 2011, as President Fokker Services and will form part of the Executive Board. Peter Somers is a senior airline executive with a proven track record at Air France-KLM, who together with his management team, will lead Fokker Services further with the aim of achieving
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The CIRCOR Aerospace Products Group has been selected by Messier-Bugatti-Dowty (Safran Group) to manufacture a complete suite of 20 actuators for multiple business and regional aircraft platforms. CIRCOR Aerospace will perform the manufacturing, final assembly and testing of these actuators at its Corona, California facilities. CIRCOR Aerospace was previously awarded several design and development and legacy
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Airbus has completed installation of the first Rolls-Royce Trent XWB flight-test engine on the A380 “flying-testbed” aircraft (MSN 001). The aircraft and engine will now be prepared for the flight-test campaign commencing in the coming weeks. The Trent XWB engine, which is the largest Rolls-Royce turbofan with a 118-inch diameter fan, has been specially designed to
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Ramco Systems, the Global Aviation Maintenance & Engineering (M&E) and Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) software provider, announced its agreement with T’way Airlines for Ramco’s Series 5 Aviation M&E software. Under the agreement, Ramco will deliver the complete web based Series 5 M&E system, including Maintenance Programs, Supply Chain Management, Maintenance Execution for Line, Shop and Heavy
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Pierre-Henri Gourgeon has resigned from his duties as Chief Executive Officer of Air France and Air France-KLM. Alexandre de Juniac has been appointed as his successor. The appointment will be subject to the approval of the Board of Directors of Air France and will become effective after the opinion of the ethics committee.
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Air Lease Corporation reported continuing lease placements and acquisitions of 12 additional aircraft. ALC has concluded the following lease placements from its order book: – one new Airbus A330-300 leased to Asiana Airlines (Korea). – two new Boeing 737-800s (MSNs 41299 and 41300) leased to Korean Airlines – two new Embraer 190 LRs leased to Aeromexico.
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TAP Maintenance and Engineering Brazil (TAP M&E Brazil) was certified by the Diretoria de Material Aeronáutico e Bélico – DIRMAB, the head of the Brazilian Air Force Logistics System, to perform periodical inspections on the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) F-5E/FM aircraft. The FAB is using this aircraft since 1974, and due to its quality and
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Simon Caldecott has been appointed the new interim President and CEO of Piper Aircraft, Inc., effective immediately. Caldecott joined Piper in 2009 and is the former Vice President of Operations responsible for Manufacturing Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality and Supply Chain. Caldecott replaces Geoff Berger, who joined as the previous interim CEO in mid-2010. Former Executive
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Messier-Bugatti-Dowty was chosen once again by Airbus to supply the nose and main landing gear for the A320 family, including the A320neo family. The European aircraft manufacturer currently accounts for 60% of Messier-Bugatti-Dowty’s landing gear activity as it supplies landing gear to the entire Airbus single aisle program as well as A330, A340 and A380 nose landing gears
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