Aircraft & Engines

Pratt & Whitney Canada has launched its next-generation 10,000-pound-thrust-class engine family, designated the PW800. The first engine, the PW810, has been selected by Cessna Aircraft Company to power its new Citation Columbus business aircraft. The PW800 engine family is the most recent evolution in P&WC

Cathay Pacific Airways took delivery of the airline’s newest 777-300ER. The airplane is painted in the unique “Asia’s world city” livery that will help promote Hong Kong as the aircraft flies around the world. The airplane, the sixth of 30 777-300ERs for delivery to Cathay Pacific, was unveiled at a pre-flight ceremony at the Future

Joining Cessna on the program are Pratt & Whitney Canada, with its new PW810 engine and Rockwell Collins, supplying its Pro Line Fusion advanced avionics system. Cessna has reached an agreement in principle with Spirit AeroSystems to produce the fuselage and empennage. Details will be finalized in the coming weeks. The all-new aircraft is Cessna

Hawker Beechcraft reported 150 business and general aviation aircraft deliveries for its fourth quarter and 430 for the year 2007. Deliveries for the full year 2007 include those delivered by Raytheon Aircraft, the predecessor business to HBAC, in the first calendar quarter of the year.

Blue Air Transport Aerian ordered two Next-Generation 737-800s with purchase rights for two more. The airplanes will join the airline’s all-Boeing fleet to provide extra capacity in a fast-growing market. The order is valued at approximately $150 million at list prices. Blue Air started operations in December 2004 as the first Romanian low-cost carrier. It

Hawaiian Airlines has signed a firm order for six A350 XWB-800s and six A330-200s. This deal finalises a Memorandum of Understanding announced in November 2007. The airline will begin receiving their new A330s in 2012, and will take delivery of their first A350 in 2017. Both models will be powered by Rolls-Royce Trent engines. This

Rolls-Royce reported that four customers in Europe, Asia and the US have selected three variants of the Trent aero engine family to power passenger and freighter aircraft. All the engines will be supported by TotalCare contracts. The potential value of the business is worth more than $1.5 billion at list prices to Rolls-Royce. This brings

Freight Feeder Aircraft Corporation released that in order to help expedite its FF5000 Freight Feeder to market, the decision has been made to change the prototype aircraft to the full-sized FF5000 version. In anticipation of this decision, earlier this year, Freight Feeder Aircraft authorized Metalcraft Technologies to start on the modifications to the existing prototype

Italy

NIKI Luftfahrt GmbH announced a follow-on order for additional nine A320 Family aircraft. The order will raise NIKI