Aircraft & Engines

Boeing delivered EgyptAir’s third Next-Generation 737-800. The airplane is the airline’s first 737 to be painted in Star Alliance livery. On July 11, EgyptAir celebrated its induction as the 21st member of Star Alliance, officially expanding its network to 1,624 weekly flights to 69 destinations around the world. The Cairo Airport Authority is scheduled to […]

Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower PW1000G demonstration engine has completed the first phase of flight testing on a company-owned 747SP flying test bed. The PW1000G engine completed 12 flights and ran approximately 43 hours with tests focused on engine performance and operability. The demonstration engine has been shipped to Toulouse, France, to be installed on an

Global Aircraft Solutions has finalized an agreement to sell a second 737-200 aircraft to Pamir Airways for a fixed price of $2,350,000, of which $2,100,000 has been received, including a previously announced non-refundable deposit of $500,000. This aircraft will be delivered with over $700,000 in new maintenance services, including fresh paint, a fresh heavy maintenance

Cessna Aircraft Company completed the first flight of the first production Citation CJ4 on August 19th, just more than three months after the CJ4 prototype initially flew on May 5th. The 41-minute flight departed McConnell Air Force Base in east Wichita and completed numerous systems evaluations. The first production aircraft, Serial 0001, will primarily be

TAM received, directly from the manufacturing plant in Seattle, the first of eight 777-300ER aircraft acquired from Boeing. The aircraft is slated for use in the company’s daily flights between Sao Paulo and Frankfurt, Germany and Sao Paulo and London. Initially, the new aircraft will be used on the Sao Paulo – Santiago, Chile route

Bombardier Aerospace announced that Synergy Aerospace Corp. has recently placed a firm order for a Learjet 85 aircraft. Based in Panama, Synergy Aerospace Corp. is a sub-holding of Synergy Group and owner of OceanAir T

Embraer and the Chilean Air Force (FACH) signed a contract for the sale of 12 Super Tucano aircraft. This is the end result of a public bid held by FACH, which chose the airplane manufactured by Embraer as the best solution for the tactical training of its pilots. The first Super Tucano should be delivered

Embraer is steadily moving forward with the development of its recently launched midlight Legacy 450 and midsize Legacy 500 executive jets, with the conclusion of the preliminary aircraft design. The joint definition phase (JDP) formally began in July, and more than 20 suppliers of key systems have already been selected. During this new phase, Embraer

Boeing recently completed work on the first BBJ 3. The BBJ 3 is a new, larger business jet based on the Boeing Next-Generation 737-900ER (Extended Range). The BBJ 3 has 1,120 square feet (104 square meters) of floor space, and provides 35 percent more interior space and 89 percent more luggage space than the BBJ

Qantas said it would remove six B737-400 aircraft from service while it cross-checked maintenance records relating to aircraft modification work carried out at one of its Australian facilities. The Executive General Manager of Qantas Engineering, Mr David Cox, said the issue was one of procedure, and did not have any safety implications. “Qantas discovered an