Aircraft & Engines

BOC Aviation announced that Iberia, the Spanish carrier, has taken delivery of all 12 Airbus aircraft, comprising eight new A330-300 and four new A320 aircraft. All 12 aircraft were delivered to Iberia between February 2013 and April 2014.

Norwegian has signed agreements to lease three new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners for its long-haul operation. Two of the aircraft will be delivered in 2016 and one in 2017. This is the brand new, more environmentally friendly and even larger Dreamliner model, which is scheduled to enter commercial service this year.  Today, Norwegian has five 787-8

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, and Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala), entered into an agreement in which Etihad Airways will acquire Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies LLC (ADAT) from Mubadala. The deal will see Mubadala retain ADAT’s engine focussed maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) business, which will be the catalyst for the

Airbus Helicopters’ EC225 presence in the African oil and gas heli-lift market will expand following delivery of an additional workhorse rotorcraft to SonAir, which is to deploy this long-range helicopter on operations in Angola. A handover ceremony in Marignane, France marked the EC225’s delivery, with this latest aircraft joining SonAir’s Airbus Helicopters-built fleet of heavy

Air Lease Corporation announced long term lease agreements with Novair for three new Airbus A321neo aircraft, which are scheduled to begin delivery in 2017. Novair is based in Stockholm, Sweden and owned by Switzerland’s Kuoni Travel Group. These aircraft are from ALC’s order book from Airbus.

ATSG announced new dry-lease agreements for two Boeing 767-200 freighters to Cargojet, a Canadian airline, for terms of up to three years beginning in the second and third quarters of 2014. These aircraft are in addition to the two 767-200 freighters Cargojet currently leases from CAM. ATSG also dry-leases two Boeing 767-300 freighters to Amerijet,

In order to go beyond certification requirements and testing to the extremes the first ever Airbus A350 XWB to visit the United States, MSN (manufacturer’s serial number) 2 has arrived at McKinley Climatic Lab at Eglin Air Force base in northwest Florida. Over the next couple of weeks the aircraft and its various systems and

MTU Aero Engines, the German engine experts will be displaying an original Geared Turbofan (GTF) engine for the very first time, at the 2014 ILA Berlin Air Show. The PurePower PW1500G, the propulsion system for Bombardier’s CSeries aircraft, is made available to MTU on a loan basis by its U.S. partner Pratt & Whtney. The

Royal Brunei Airlines, the flag carrier of Brunei Darussalam, has signed a letter of intent with Pratt & Whitney for PurePower PW1100G-JM engines to power seven firm A320neo aircraft (together with three options). Deliveries are scheduled to commence in 2018.