Aircraft & Engines

Australia’s newest international airline, V Australia, has taken delivery of the first of seven brand new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft at a formal handover ceremony at the Boeing factory in Seattle. V Australia’s first Boeing 777-300ER will touch down on Australian soil for the first time next Monday, 9 February, in Sydney.

ECC Leasing Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Embraer, has sold a second ERJ 145 used jet to Brazil

TAM has added a new Airbus A321 to its operating fleet, which arrived directly from the manufacturer in Hamburg, Germany. Configured with 220 seats, the new aircraft is allowing TAM to offer two daily flights between Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul state) and Recife (Pernambuco state), with a stop at Guarulhos Airport in Sao

Korean Air has placed firm orders with Airbus for two more double-deck A380 aircraft. This latest purchase agreement brings the total number of A380s ordered by Korean Air to ten aircraft. The carrier will operate the aircraft in a three-class layout on routes linking Seoul to destinations in North America and Europe, including Los Angeles,

Pratt & Whitney has completed ground and flight testing of the PurePower PW1000G demonstrator engine. The final phase of testing was completed jointly with Airbus on an A340-600 flight test aircraft and included 27 flights and more than 75 hours of flight testing. The PW1000G engine features Pratt & Whitney’s patented Geared Turbofan technology and

The Boeing Company has conducted successful functional check flights of two 737-700 airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft modified in Australia for Project Wedgetail. During each of the 2.5-hour flights on Jan. 21 and 28 from Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) base Amberley, pilot Doug Benjamin and first officer Ed Wilson performed a series

Production of Boeing 787 Dreamliners resumed January 29th with the join of the fifth airplane designated for flight test. This airplane, designated ZA005, is the first to be powered with General Electric GEnx engines. The major assemblies were loaded in final body join over the past several days. The fuselage and wing joins occur simultaneously.

Cabot Aviation announced that it has arranged the sale of seven Boeing 737-200 aircraft on behalf of Aerotrans Leasing Limited. These aircraft have all been purchased by KAL Aviation, based in the United Arab Emirates, which will lease them to operators in the region. All seven aircraft were last operated by Nationwide in South Africa

Embraer will deliver the first EMBRAER 195 jet, to Air Dolomiti, the Lufthansa owned Northern Italy regional carrier. The deal with Lufthansa was announced in June 2007, covering 30 firm orders for the EMBRAER 190 jet, with the option to take any aircraft of the E-Jets family. Air Dolomiti

Lufthansa is to power a new fleet of 20 firm Airbus A321s plus options with the V2500 SelectOne engine. The value of this business to IAE is up to $850 million if all options are exercised and deliveries are due to commence in 2009. Choosing the latest V2500 SelectOne configuration will enable Lufthansa to drive