Aircraft & Engines

China Postal Airlines signs purchase agreement for 10 Next-Generation 737 Boeing Converted Freighters

China Postal Airlines signed an agreement for 10 Next-Generation 737 Boeing Converted Freighters (BCFs), pending a program launch. The 737-800 is the first Next-Generation 737 that Boeing will offer for conversion. Through the 737 BCF program, Boeing will support customers in the narrow-body freighter market, a segment of the freighter market growing quickly around the […]

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GECAS and Virgin America sign lease agreement for 10 Airbus A321neo aircraft

GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), the commercial aircraft leasing and financing arm of GE,  has signed an agreement with Virgin America, to lease 10 new Airbus A321neo aircraft powered by CFM’s LEAP-1A engines to expand the carrier’s fleet. The first aircraft is scheduled for delivery in Q1 2017 and the remainder will deliver in 2017

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Skyworld Aviation arranges the sale of an ATR 72-202 to Summit Air

Skyworld Aviation have arranged the sale of an ATR 72-202, serial number 444 to Summit Air of Canada. The aircraft was delivered on November 25th, 2015 and was flown to Toulouse to undergo a full cargo conversion, including the installation of a large cargo door prior to it entering into operation with Summit. The aircraft

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Air Lease Corporation announces lease placement of two new Boeing 787-9 aircraft with El Al

Air Lease Corporation signed an agreement to lease two new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft to El Al. Both aircraft are on long-term lease from ALC’s order book with Boeing and are scheduled to deliver to Israel’s flag carrier airline in the third quarter and early fourth quarter of 2017. These new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft

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Embraer Executive Jets delivers first Phenom 100E in China

Embraer Executive Jets announced the delivery of the first Phenom 100E in China. The aircraft will be operated by Wanfeng Aviation Co., a subsidiary of Wanfeng Auto Holding Group. Based in Zhejiang province, Wanfeng Auto Holding Group is a large private joint-stock enterprise with businesses in automotive parts, machinery, financial investments, as well as alternative

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Mesa Airlines expands agreement for more new E175 aircraft to operate for United

Mesa Airlines announced the expansion of its agreement with United Airlines to operate three additional Embraer 175 aircraft, bringing the total number of United Express aircraft operated by Mesa to 68. In October, the Company announced an agreement for the addition of 15 new aircraft scheduled for delivery in 2016, which has now increased to

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TAI and LHTEC sign contract for CTS800 engine

Turkish Aerospace Industries and the Light Helicopter Turbine Engine Company, a 50-50 partnership between Honeywell International and Rolls-Royce, have signed an agreement to supply CTS800 turboshaft engines for the Turkish Light Utility Helicopter, a program of the Undersecretary for Defense Industry since September 2013. The agreement, which confirms a memorandum of understanding signed at this

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Skyworld Aviation arranges sale of ERJ 135 to JETGO, Australia

On behalf of U.S.-based Republic Airways Holdings, the world’s largest operator of Embraer jets, Skyworld Aviation has arranged the sale of a 36-seat ERJ 135 aircraft to charter and scheduled operator JETGO of Australia. The aircraft was originally placed on lease with the airline in early 2013 alongside two other ERJ 135’s to support the

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