Aircraft & Engines

Dublin-based Lessor Elix acquires three Bombardier Q400 NextGen aircraft

Bombardier Commercial Aircraft welcomed leasing company Elix Aviation Capital Limited (“Elix”) to the family of Q400 ‎aircraft owners and operators. Elix is taking an assignment of three Q400 NextGen aircraft previously booked by an existing Bombardier customer. Dublin-based Elix was launched in September 2013 with the equity backing of Oaktree Capital Management, a premier global […]

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Rolls-Royce unveils Scoot Airlines Trent 1000 engine, made in Singapore

Rolls-Royce celebrated a milestone at the company’s Seletar Campus with the unveiling of a Trent 1000 engine, the first to be made in Singapore for Singapore’s very own long-haul budget carrier, Scoot. The Trent 1000, which is fully assembled and tested by a team of 80, will provide power to Scoot’s new fleet of 20

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Pratt & Whitney concludes PurePower Geared Turbofan engine

Pratt & Whitney and Kawasaki Heavy Industries met to commemorate the signing of a risk and revenue-sharing collaboration agreement for KHI to provide key hardware modules for Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower Geared Turbofan (GTF) engines. Pratt & Whitney currently has 10 worldwide GTF collaboration partners, many of which work across multiple GTF engine variants to

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Summit Aviation Group adds second AVRO RJ85 aircraft

Summit Air announced the purchase of a second AVRO RJ85 jet to meet market demand for remote destination crew movements and ACMI (aircraft, crew maintenance and insurance) contracts. Summit Air is part of the Ledcor Group of Companies and operates a fleet of helicopters and fixed wing aircraft throughout Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest and Yukon

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RRPF completes first installed engine sale and lease-back transaction with dvb deucalion aviation funds

Rolls-Royce & Partners Finance (RRPF) and DVB Bank SE (DVB) as investment advisor to the Deucalion Aviation Funds have completed a sale and lease-back transaction to finance V2500-A5 engines installed on five A320-200 aircraft. The aircraft were subject to existing leases purchased from Mitsui & Co US and are all on lease in the Americas

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AerCap signed 249 aircraft lease transactions in 2014, purchased 33 and sold 83 aircraft

AerCap Holdings N.V. signed 249 aircraft lease transactions in 2014. Furthermore, the company purchased 33 and sold 83 aircraft. This means that AerCap leased, purchased or sold an aircraft every day. The full year numbers include aircraft transactions of the combined company for the period after closing of the ILFC acquisition on May 14th. Aircraft

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Aeroflot and SCA sign agreement for additional 20 SSJ-100s

JSC Aeroflot and JSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCA) have signed an agreement for an additional 20 of the latest Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft. Aeroflot will receive the additional SSJ-100s in full specification, able to accommodate 87 passengers in a spacious dual-class configuration (12 seats in business and 75 in economy) and with a flight range

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