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AAR Signs Landing Gear Overhaul Contract with SkyWest, Inc.

Global aerospace leader AAR has signed a three-year agreement to provide landing gear overhaul and exchange services for SkyWest, Inc.’s operating carriers. The agreement, which covers landing gear assemblies and sub-assemblies on its fleet of more than 400 Bombardier CRJ aircraft, includes the option to extend to five years. The agreement builds on a relationship with...

Boeing's space taxis to use more than 600 3D-printed parts

Boeing Co has hired a small company to make about 600 3D-printed parts for its Starliner space taxis, meaning key components in the United States manned space program are being built with additive manufacturing. The company, privately held Oxford Performance Materials, will announce a $10 million strategic investment from advanced materials company Hexcel Corp as early as Friday, addi...

Spirit Aero's quarterly revenue hurt by lower deliveries to Boeing

Aircraft parts maker Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc reported a lower-than-expected quarterly revenue on Wednesday as its biggest customer, Boeing Co, faces slowing demand for jetliners. Spirit's shares were down 4.59 percent to $57.30 in morning trading. Quarterly revenue was hurt by lower "pricing terms" for Boeing's 787 program and fewer production deliveries on the 747...

StandardAero Signs PT6A/PW100 Engine MRO and Guaranteed LRU Exchange Partnership

StandardAero has signed a new, exclusive, two-year partnership agreement with Johannesburg, South Africa-based Solenta Aviation Workshop Ltd., to provide a guaranteed LRU, MRO and exchange program to support Solenta's PT6A/PW100 engine operations. As a strategic partner, the program is specifically designed to provide Solenta Aviation Workshop with highly customized service options to proac...

Textron Aviation celebrates 45th anniversary of first Citation delivery

Textron Aviation announced it is celebrating the 45th anniversary of the first Cessna Citation delivery. The first Citation jet, a Cessna Citation 500, was delivered to American Airlines in January 1972, where it was used for the development of the company’s training program. Since then, the Citation series has become the most popular line of business jets ever produced with more...

Boeing Awarded $2.1B for Third KC-46A Tanker Production Lot

The U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing $2.1 billion for 15 KC-46A tanker aircraft, spare engines and wing air refueling pod kits. This order is the third low-rate initial production lot for Boeing. The first two came in August 2016 and included seven and 12 planes, respectively, as well as spare parts. Boeing plans to build 179 of the 767-based refueling aircraft for the Air Force to replace...

Gulfstream continues to provide enhanced customer support worldwide

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. reaffirms its commitment to worldwide customer support with an extensive schedule of 2017 events that began with a pilots forum Jan. 18 in Zurich. The 2017 schedule also includes nine traditional operator forums in the U.S., Europe, Asia and South America, two Customer Advisory Board (CAB) meetings in Savannah and a virtual Operators Conference. The company’s...

Spike Aerospace Expands Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Development Effort

Spike Aerospace is expanding efforts to develop the world’s first Quiet Supersonic Jet. The sleek 18 passenger design will result in a quieter, faster and more efficient supersonic aircraft. Engineering is on track for a first flight of a subsonic prototype of the jet by late summer of 2017. The prototype will demonstrate low-speed aerodynamic flight characteristic. This will be followed...

Gulfstream G280 earns significant overwater record

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced that its Gulfstream G280 aircraft recently set a speed record between Carlsbad, California, and Kalaoa, Hawaii, completing the overwater flight in just 4 hours and 47 minutes. The super mid-sized business jet covered the 2,257 nautical miles/4,180 kilometers from McClellan-Palomar Airport to Kona International Airport at a brisk Mach 0.84. “Fly...

Piper appoints veteran industry executive Drew McEwen to vice president, international and direct sales

Piper Aircraft Inc. has appointed General Aviation industry veteran, Drew McEwen, to Vice President International and Direct Sales, where he will lead Piper Aircraft’s global, and factory direct sales efforts focused on growing its trainer business and the international distribution network for the Company. Additionally, Drew will oversee the factory direct sales team for fleet, trainer, and...

Lockheed Martin is helping NASA begin the hunt for dark energy

Lockheed Martin is helping NASA begin the hunt for dark energy, a mysterious force powering the universe’s accelerating expansion. An instrument assembly the company is developing, if selected by NASA for production, will be the core of the primary scientific instrument aboard the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), whose mission aims to uncover hundreds of millions more galaxies...

Jeppesen teams with JAA-TO to explore offering European aviation training programs

Jeppesen, a Boeing Company, and the Joint Aviation Authorities Training Organization (JAA TO) have signed an initial Memorandum of Understanding to determine the potential for co-offering European-based aviation training programs. The agreement will look to integrate JAA TO expertise in multiple fields of aviation safety with Jeppesen’s extensive pilot training, flight dispatch and lic...