The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved type certification for GE Aviation’s H80 turboprop engine. The US FAA engine certification follows similar certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) that the engine received in December. The first aircraft to enter service with the H80 engine will be the Thrush 510G agricultural aircraft. The […]
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The Deucalion Aviation Funds, managed by DVB Bank SE, has entered into a lease agreement with Asiana Airlines for one Boeing 747-400 aircraft which is currently undergoing conversion from passenger to freighter configuration at the IAI Bedek conversion facility. The aircraft , MSN 29375, was manufactured in 1999 and is equipped with four General Electric
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Following the recent placement of an ATR42-500 on ACMI lease, Airstream announced its latest successful ACMI placement, this time a Danube Wings ATR72-200 to NextJet in Sweden. The aircraft will operate out of Gallivare, seven days a week to Stockholm and Kramfors. The aircraft is being used to supplement NextJet’s existing fleet of S340’s on
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The fleet of European leisure charter carrier Small Planet Airlines, in Poland, has been replenished by another Airbus A320 type of aircraft. It is planed that the carrier will start operating the aircraft in the beginning of April. The new aircraft that had been issued with the SP-HAC registration, landed at the Warsaw International Frederic
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Cessna’s new Citation M2, announced less than six months ago, made its first prototype flight on March 9th. The flight lasted a little more than an hour and a half and included tests of the avionics system, autopilot, engine system, aircraft systems and instrument approaches. The prototype took off and landed at Wichita, Kan., Mid-Continent
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GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) delivered a new Boeing 737-800 aircraft to Japanese low-cost airline Solaseed Air to help them with their fleet upgrade. The aircraft comes from GECAS’ existing order book with Boeing. Solaseed Air, the new brand name of Skynet Asia, is transitioning out of its Boeing 737-400 fleet to an all-new Boeing
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AWAS has signed a formal agreement with aircraft manufacturer Airbus, to become one of the first lessors to be able to offer its customer airlines the significant fuel savings of aircraft fitted with factory-build Sharklets. The advanced end-of-wing Sharklet system has been developed by Airbus to save airlines up to $270k on fuel per aircraft
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Eurolot S.A. of Warsaw, Poland has signed a firm order to acquire eight Q400 NextGen airliners. The transaction includes options for an additional 12 Q400 NextGen aircraft. Based on the list price for the Q400 NextGen airliner, the firm order contract is valued at approximately $246m. The contract value would increase to $625m, should all
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted 330-minute extended-range, twin-engine operations (ETOPS) Approval to 14 CFR Part 33.201 for the GEnx-1B Performance Improvement Program (PIP) engine, which will power the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. This follows the 330-minute ETOPS approval that was granted to the GEnx-1B baseline engine late last year. The FAA approval
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Silver Airways has reached an agreement with Saab Aircraft Leasing to purchase six additional Saab 340Bplus aircraft. Financial terms were not disclosed. This latest acquisition brings the total number of Saab 340’s to 12 in the Silver Airways fleet. Silver Airways will integrate all 12 Saab 340Bplus’ into its fleet by September 2012. Each aircraft
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