Aircraft & Engines

BAE Systems announced new aircraft transactions from its regional aircraft portfolio and a strong performance across all of its regional aircraft business sectors during 2010. Across its core portfolio aircraft business, the Asset Management team of Regional Aircraft placed 52 aircraft, up from 44 in 2009. Of these, 45 were for the BAe 146/Avro RJ […]

AAR has added two new Sikorsky S-92 helicopters to its fleet of 29 rotary-wing and 20 fixed-wing aircraft that the Company uses to provide airlift services for the U.S. Government. The S-92 helicopters will be used to support a previously announced $450 million task order to provide super-heavy airlift services for USTRANSCOM in Afghanistan and

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Republic Airways Holdings has amended its capacity purchase agreement with Delta Air Lines to provide for the addition of eight dual-class E170 aircraft. The aircraft are expected to be placed into Delta Connection service between May and September 2011 and will have a term of six years from the in-service date for Delta. After the

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation finalized and executed a definitive Purchase Agreement with Trans States Holdings (TSH) for an order of 100 next-generation Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) aircraft (50 firm, 50 options) on December 27, 2010. TSH, based in St. Louis, Missouri, is an airline holding company that owns and operates three independent airlines, Trans States Airlines,

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Air Lease Corporation (ALC), the aircraft financing and leasing company, has taken delivery of its first brand new A320 aircraft directly ordered from Airbus and to be leased to and operated by Air New Zealand. Air New Zealand has designed a one-off livery for the new aircraft as part of its Crazy About Rugby campaign,

Bombardier Aerospace has received firm orders from an undisclosed customer for two Challenger and six Global jets. The transaction is valued at approximately $383 million based on the 2010 list price for typically equipped aircraft.