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Embraer reaches targets with delivery of 108 commercial jets and 117 executive jets in 2016

Embraer delivered 32 commercial and 43 executive jets, 25 of which are light jets and 18 are large, during the fourth quarter of 2016 (4Q16). The Company ended the year with 108 aircraft delivered to the commercial aviation market and 117 to the executive aviation market, totaling 73 light and 44 la...

RUAG marks delivery of 15,000 flight data recorders

RUAG Aviation announces the completion of over 15,000 flight data recorder (FDR) maintenance events. This latest milestone for the industry leader in aircraft component MRO was achieved in the final quarter of 2016. RUAG Aviation’s one-stop shop services at its Munich location, features a dedi...

Honeywell and EAD Aerospace boost in-flight connectivity for Airbus A319 with European Agency certification

Honeywell received European Aviation Safety Agency certification for its JetWaveTM high-speed satellite communications hardware on the Airbus A319. The certification allows JetWave to be installed and used on the A319 aircraft, providing passengers, pilots and operators with access to Inmarsat's Global Xpress Ka-band service, GX Aviation — the only high-speed wireless network that c...

Sikorsky - PZL Mielec Plans Caribbean and Latin American Tour

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, and its PZL Mielec affiliate will launch a two-month, 13-city tour across seven Caribbean and Latin American countries in early 2017 to demonstrate the short take-off and landing capabilities of the M28 twin turboprop airplane. Flight and ground demonstrations starting mid-March in Trinidad and Tobago will extend to Brazil, ...

Iran Air takes delivery of its first of 100 Airbus aircraft

Iran Air has taken delivery of its first new aircraft, an A321, in a handover ceremony in Toulouse with Mr. Farhad Parvaresh, Iran Air Chairman and CEO, and Mr. Fabrice Bregier, President, Airbus Commercial Aircraft and Chief Operating Officer Airbus, in the presence of Gael Meheust, SVP Sales and Marketing CFM, Tom Enders, Airbus Chief Executive Officer, and international media. The deli...

2017 price adjustment for Airbus’ modern, fuel-efficient aircraft

Airbus has increased the average list prices of its aircraft by one percent across the product line, effective from January 1st 2017. This price increase has been calculated according to Airbus’ standard escalation formula over the January 2016 to January 2017 period and takes into account the materials and commodities prices. John Leahy, Chief Operating Officer Customers, Airbus Commerci...

SSJ100: fitting issue under resolution

With reference to the stabilizer’s issue of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft, the manufacturer would like to clarify the following: The stabilizer’s repair is not complicated technically and it is not related to design solutions. All the airplanes can be fixed on ground with no need of transferring the aircraft back to the manufacturer’s base. The repair works are cu...

Boeing, Jeju Air Finalize Order for Three Next-Generation 737-800s

Boeing and Jeju Air announced an order today for three Next-Generation 737-800s. The order, valued at nearly $300 million at current list prices, will become the airline's first direct-purchased airplanes from Boeing and fuel the airline's continued expansion within Asia's rapidly growing air travel market. The order was previously attributed to an unidentif...

GoAir firms contract for 72 A320neo aircraft

GoAir, a Wadia Group company, has penned a firm contract for 72 A320neo aircraft following its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed during the Farnborough International Airshow. The agreement reached on 30th December 2016, doubles GoAir’s firm order book for the aircraft type to 144. GoAir took delivery of its first A320neo in June 2016 and now operates a fleet of twenty three ai...

Bell Helicopter and TRU Simulation + Training meet milestones marking BTA-Valencia completion

Bell Helicopter and TRU Simulation + Training Inc., both Textron Inc. companies, announced that the Bell Helicopter Training Academy (BTA) in Valencia, Spain, along with its Bell 429 full flight simulator (FFS), have been certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). These certification milestones mark the official completion of the training facility. BTA-Valencia was designed to ser...

Gulfstream G650ER Continues Record Streak

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced the company's flagship Gulfstream G650ER recently claimed two more city-pair records. The achievements highlight the aircraft's superior performance and the company's commitment to providing customers with high-speed travel options. The G650ER took off from Ohio's John Glenn Columbus International Airport and landed at Sha...

Airbus signs MoU with Taiwan’s China Airlines to develop its Maintenance, Engineering and Training capabilities

Airbus has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China Airlines (CAL) to support the development of the airline’s maintenance, engineering and technical training capabilities in Taiwan. Under the MoU, Airbus and CAL will evaluate technical and business solutions to develop the carrier’s services for all Airbus aircraft types currently operated by the airline, which include th...

First soviet business jet celebrates 50 years

October 21, 2016 marked exactly 50 years since the first Yak-40 flight! The world's first jet plane of local airlines, the first airliner of Yakovlev Design Bureau, the first Soviet aircraft, which received a Certificate of Airworthiness in the West ... and later it became the first and only business jet in the USSR! Yak-40 in the amount of 1011 pieces actively went off the as...

Aviation in 2017: Supersonic jets and premium economy

It has been a tough few years for the aviation industry and 2016 proved no different. Carriers had to navigate the collapse in oil prices, multiple plane tragedies including EgyptAir in May, the Chapecoense crash in Colombia as well as fire-prone Samsung phones. However, it is worth noting that last year was actually one of the safest in modern aviation history. So what does 2017 hold in...

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