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Bombardier Sells Eight Q400 NextGen Airliners To Ethiopian Airlines
Total Dash 8/Q-Series turboprop program orders exceed 1,000 aircraft
Bombardier Aerospace announced today that Ethiopian Airlines has signed a contract to purchase eight Q400 NextGen turboprop airliners, and has taken options on four additional Q400 NextGen aircraft. Including this transaction,… Continue reading
Boeing Announces Layoffs, Restructuring at Wichita Site
WICHITA, Kan., Nov. 19, 2008 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced plans to cut approximately 800 positions at its Integrated Defense Systems facility in Wichita during 2009. Boeing attributes the reductions to the end of some programs and… Continue reading
TAT Group Takes Delivery Of Its 40th ATR Aircraft
TAT Group’s leasing subsidiary, AIR Ltd., today took delivery of an ATR 72-500 aircraft which marks the 40th ATR aircraft delivered to the TAT Group. The aircraft will be leased to Bangkok Airways. Coincidentally, both TAT Group and Bangkok Airways… Continue reading
Lockheed Martin Receives $156 Million Contract To Extend Canadian CP-140 Aurora Aircraft Service Life
MARIETTA, Ga., November 19, 2008 — Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has received a $156 million contract to provide the P-3 Aircraft Service Life Extension Program (ASLEP) for the Canadian Forces’ CP-140 aircraft fleet. Under this contract, 10 Canadian CP-140 Aurora… Continue reading
Alenia Aeronautica News: Delivery of First Tranche 2 Typhoon to the Italian Air Force
Important step for the Eurofighter Typhoon, the main European industrial collaborative programme. Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica company, has officially delivered the first Tranche 2 Eurofighter Typhoon to the Italian Air Force.
The aircraft – IS020 – was flown to Grosseto… Continue reading
EADS Military Transport Aircraft delivers the sixth HC-144A Maritime Patrol Aircraft for the US Coast Guard’s Deepwater Programme
Military Transport Aircraft of EADS has delivered the sixth HC-144A Ocean Sentry Maritime Patrol Aircraft for the US Coast Guard Deepwater programme. From a plan to purchase 36 aircraft, eight are already firm orders. The HC-144A is based on the… Continue reading
EADS Military Transport Aircraft Division delivers the first C-295 aircraft to Portugal
EADS Military Transport Aircraft has delivered today the first of twelve (12) military transport aircraft C-295 to Jorge Rolo, Chairman of DEFAERLOC (State owned company in charge of procuring defence material for Portugal) ordered by the Portuguese Air Force in… Continue reading
ATR And LION AIR Sign MoU For 20 ATRs
ATR and Indonesia’s carrier LION AIR today inked an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) for 10 firm ATR 72-500 with options for 10 additional aircraft. The deal, announced on the occasion of the Indodefence Air show in Jakarta, is valued at… Continue reading
AW139 Enters Service With Saudi Aramco
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that the AW139 medium twin helicopter has now entered service with Saudi Aramco. Saudi Aramco’s fleet of AW139 helicopters is being used to support oil and gas operations in Saudi Arabia and… Continue reading
Boeing Upgrades, Powers Up 3rd C-130 for Avionics Modernization Program
SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 19, 2008 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] announced today that it has successfully completed Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) upgrades on C-130 aircraft AMP 3 (H3). The aircraft moved into ground test and evaluation at Boeing’s Global… Continue reading
Hornet celebrates 30th anniversary of first flight
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, Patuxent River, Md. — The F/A-18 Hornet community celebrates the 30th anniversary of the legacy aircraft’s first flight today.
The Hornet, introduced as a multi-mission aircraft, was designed to replace the Navy’s F-4 Phantom and A-7… Continue reading
GE Awarded A350XWB Wing Trailing Edge Package
A350 XWB model, archive aviationnews.eu
A350 XWB model, archive aviationnews.eu
HAMBLE, United Kingdom–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GE Aviation today announced a contract award with Airbus for the design and manufacture of composite and metallic sub assemblies and components for the A350XWB wing trailing edge. GE’s facility in Hamble… Continue reading