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PC-12 Fleet Reaches 4 Million Hour Milestone
This month, the global fleet of nearly 1,200 Pilatus PC-12s reached a major milestone by accumulating 4,000,000 flight hours since the first aircraft was delivered in October, 1994. To date, the highest time PC 12 has logged over 24,000 hours… Continue reading
Cessna’s Citation Hits Milestone with 400th CJ3
Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. company, today rolled out the 400th production unit of the company’s CJ3 business jet from its production facility in Wichita, Kan. The CJ3 is categorized as a light business jet and is in its… Continue reading
Lockheed Martin Completes Major GPS III Flight Software Milestone
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The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force’s next generation Global Position System III satellites has completed a key flight software milestone validating the software’s ability to provide reliable and effective command and control for the GPS… Continue reading
Second F-35A Reaches 500 Flight Hour Milestone
Lockheed Martin
The second Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter, known as AF-1, joined the 500 flight hour club recently during its 272nd flight. It joins AF-2 which passed the milestone June 26, 2012. The conventional takeoff… Continue reading
F-35B achieves milestone flight
Marine Corps test pilot Maj. C. R. Clift flies BF-1 on a short take off and vertical landing mode mission, Dec. 7.
The flight marked the 1,000th developmental test flight for the F-35B Lightning II in the program’s system development… Continue reading
Singapore Airlines receives the milestone 80th A380
Airbus reached another programme milestone for its 21st century flagship A380 with delivery of the 80th aircraft, received today by Singapore Airlines. This carrier was the first to operate the double-deck jetliner in October 2007, and has used the A380… Continue reading
Air Canada operates an A330 on an Olympic-scale milestone biofuel flight
Another aviation milestone was reached using an Airbus jetliner this week when Air Canada performed the first transatlantic flight powered by biofuel using an A330.
This week’s A330 trip from Montreal to London, which carried a number of Canadian athletes… Continue reading
Milestone test flight for the F-35C
Cmdr. Eric Buus brings F-35C Joint Strike Fighter test aircraft CF-3 in for a landing at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., May 29. The flight was the 300th flight for the F-35’s carrier variants and evaluated improvements in flight… Continue reading
EADS North America UH-72A Lakota fleet hits 100,000 flight hour milestone
Lakota fleet achieves 100,000 flight hours with 219 aircraft operating in U.S., Europe, Caribbean, and Pacific with Army and Army National Guard units
HERNDON, Va. and HUNTSVILLE, Ala., 22 May 2012
The U.S. Army’s fleet of 219 UH-72A Lakota helicopters… Continue reading
Deployment Extended For K-MAX Unmanned Aerial Cargo Hauler As It Exceeds Million-Pound Milestone
Two unmanned K-MAX helicoptershave delivered more than one million pounds in less than four months in support of the U.S. Marine Corps in Afghanistan and will remain in theater until September on a deployment extension.
The aircraft, a joint effort… Continue reading
Rolls-Royce Achieves New Trent 1000 Milestone
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has successfully completed the first run of an upgraded version of the Trent 1000 that will be the launch engine for the latest member of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner family, the 787-9.
The Trent… Continue reading
British test pilot marks milestone in the Joint Combat Aircraft
People on this side of the Atlantic Ocean tend to look twice when they see the “c” replacing the “s” in the British version of the word “defense.”
Now, those on the other side of the Atlantic might look twice… Continue reading