Aircraft & Engines

Emirates, the Dubai-based international airline, placed an order with Airbus for an additional 32 A380 aircraft taking the total firm order to 90 super-jumbos. The order for the additional aircraft has a list price of $ 11.5 billion. The agreement was signed on June 8th during a ceremony at the Berlin Air Show by His […]

Boeing delivered the third MD-11 freighter to Italy-based Cargoitalia S.p.A., under a long-term lease. Boeing Capital Corporation, the company’s aircraft financing arm, structured the deal for the newly completed MD-11 Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF), with Boeing conducting the modification work at its subcontractor facility in Singapore. Following its acceptance by Cargoitalia, the aircraft flew directly

Air Berlin received its 50th Airbus A320-Family aircraft during the International Airshow in Berlin, Germany. The aircraft is an Airbus A320 equipped with a comfortable single-class layout seating 174 passengers. Air Berlin

The first Boeing 747-8 Freighter painted in customer livery emerged from the Boeing paint hangar in Everett, Wash. The airplane sports an updated livery for launch customer Cargolux. The Luxembourg-based cargo operator has a total of 13 Boeing 747-8 Freighters on order. Boeing delivered the last Cargolux 747-400 Freighter with a unique transition paint scheme

Sukhoi Superjet 100, SN95003, has successfully completed the test program aimed at evaluation of engine protection against water jets from the runway. The tests confirmed that APU and propulsion system sustain normal operation while running over the wet runway within the full range of modes preceding the take off. So, SSJ 100 is able to

The 30th A380 to be delivered was handed over on June 4th to Emirates Airline, one of the launch customers of the Airbus double-decker aircraft. This is the tenth A380 Emirates has received out of its total firm order for 58 aircraft. Airbus has already delivered seven A380s so far in 2010, three to Emirates

After a completion time of just four months and one week Hamburg based Lufthansa Technik

Luxair Luxembourg Airlines has signed an agreement with Boeing to purchase one Next-Generation 737-800 jetliner. The airplane will join Luxair’s Next-Generation 737 fleet of three 737-700s and one 737-800. The 737-800 has an average list price of $77 million. The order was previously recorded on Boeing’s Orders & Deliveries website as an unidentified customer.

As part of its previously announced Air Transat fleet renewal program, Transat A.T. announced the signing of an agreement with CIT Aerospace International for the long-term leasing of two Airbus A330 wide-body jets. Air Transat’s fleet currently includes 13 Airbus A310s, which will be gradually withdrawn from service, and Airbus A330s. Five of the latter

The first S-70i BLACK HAWK helicopter, built at Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.’s company in Poland, PZL Mielec, has entered the flight test program at Sikorsky’s Development Flight Center (DFC) in Florida. The S-70i helicopter is an international variant of the BLACK HAWK helicopter. Sikorsky Aircraft is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp.