Airbus China Limited and Harbin Aircraft Industry Group Company Limited (HAIG) entered into a framework contract for a Joint Venture Manufacturing Centre in Harbin, China to produce aircraft composite material parts and components. The manufacturing centre, which will be set up in early 2009, will be an equity joint venture enterprise, with HAIG holding 80% […]
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BAE Systems has signed contracts with the Belgian major carrier Brussels Airlines for the sale and leaseback of three Avro RJs. This deal follows the major transaction concluded in May 2005 under which BAE Systems signed a contract to buy and then leaseback 23 of the airline
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Malaysia Airlines has ordered 35 Next-Generation 737-800 airplanes. The order is valued at more than $2.6 billion at current list prices. The airline also has acquired purchase rights for an additional 20 Next-Generation 737-800s. The order, which brought the total number of Boeing 737s ordered past the 8,000th mark, was recently posted on the Boeing
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GE Aviation has launched a new engine core program, called “eCore”, as the technology cornerstone for a new generation of jet engines for narrow-body, regional, and business jets. The program is designed to offer aircraft operators up to 16% better fuel efficiency over GE’s best engines in operation today. GE already produces some of the
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Goodrich Corporation has received an expanded landing gear overhaul service agreement from Continental Airlines to cover virtually every model in the airline’s Boeing aircraft fleet. The expanded portion of the agreement is expected to generate $49 million in revenue over five years. Under the contract amendment, Goodrich will perform overhaul services for landing gear on
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Honeywell’s Runway Awareness and Alerting System (RAAS) has been added to Airbus
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Wizz Air has placed a follow-on order for the IAE International Aero Engines V2500 to power a new fleet of 50 Airbus A320 aircraft. Supported by the V2500SelectSM aftermarket agreement, the new deal is valued at $1.6 billion at list prices.
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CIT Aerospace, a unit of CIT, has placed a new order for the V2500 engine to power 15 Airbus A320-family aircraft in a deal worth around $250 million at list prices. With this order, CIT
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Qatar Airways has signed a long-term TotalCare agreement to support its fleet of four Rolls-Royce Trent 500-powered Airbus A340-600s and one VIP-configured Airbus A340-500.
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Rolls-Royce and Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala), the business development and investment company located in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, today announced the launch of a new joint venture company to serve the rapidly expanding Middle East aviation services market. The new joint venture will offer On-Wing Care through Abu Dhabi Aircraft
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