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Boeing, Okay Airways Announce Commitment for 12 737s

Qingdao Airlines Places $100 million order with CFM

Qingdao Airlines has selected CFM International’s CFM56-5B engine to power five purchased Airbus A320ceo aircraft. The order is valued at $100 million U.S. at list price. The airplane order was announced in September 2013 and the airline will begin taking delivery later this year....

A positive kick-off for Airbus in 2016

Airbus got off to a good start in 2016, in particular for its best-selling wide body family with 16 aircraft orders booked in January, comprising 14 all new A330-900neo’s from an undisclosed customer and two A320ceo’s from fast growing Hong Kong based lessor, CALC (China Aircraft Leasing...

Aerolease Aviation signs LOI for 10 Mitsubishi Regional Jets

Aerolease Aviation, a Florida-based lessor with a portfolio of 40 used Boeing 757s, signed a letter of intent (LOI) for 10 Mitsubishi Regional Jets (MRJ) plus 10 options. Aerolease becomes the first lessor to commit to the MRJ. “We firmly believe that the asset value of the MRJ has now been recognized in the aircraft finance market,” Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. president Hiromichi Mor...

Two-year wait for $65m Gulfstream personal jet as demand flies

Gulfstream Aerospace says it’s unable to keep up with demand from the rich. Pay $65 million for the G650 or G650ER personal jets, and your wait to board them could be as long as two years, Scott Neal, Gulfstream’s senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, said in a Bloomberg TV interview Tuesday at the Singapore Air Show. The G650ER “has taken market shar...

Airbus Beluga makes emergency landing at Liverpool Airport after 'problem with its flaps'

An Airbus plane has made an emergency landing at Liverpool airport. The aircraft, an Airbus A300 - known as a Beluga due to its unusual shape- was on its way to Broughton in North Wales, but was forced to make an emergency landing at John Lennon airport when it was suspected there was a problem with its wing flaps. The aircraft was not a passenger plane but one used to carry parts to and fro...

Can China Save the Day for Slumping Aircraft Manufacturers?

The Singapore Air Show, the biggest event of its type in East Asia, is taking place this week. At the past few Air Shows, there have been major orders placed by airlines from India and Southeast Asia. Though a number of deals will certainly be made at the 2016 event, the mood is not quite as positive as it has been in years past. The flow of orders was slow at the world’s...

Russian SR-10 trainer jet in first flight

A new forward-swept wing jet trainer by Russia's Modern Aviation Technologies has made its first flight. The test took place at Oreshkovo airfield in the Kaluga region of Russia, and it was successful. The SR-10 is a single-engine all composite aircraft. Its forward-swept wing gives the aircraft improved stability at low speeds and enhanced takeoff and landing performance, the news...

ST Aero UAV can fly and swim

ST Aerospace is showing off a proof of concept unmanned air vehicle that can both fly and swim. The company’s Unmanned Hybrid Vehicle (UHV) has been tested in the water, but has yet to conduct its first flight. “Not many countries are comfortable with a 25kg [55lb] experimental aircraft in their airspace,” says Milly Tay, senior vice-president at ST Aero’s engineering...

Honeywell Eyes $15 billion Opportunity on Comac’s C919

Honeywell’s partnership with the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) C919 program represents a $15 billion opportunity for the U.S. company, its top regional aerospace official told AIN in the run-up to the Singapore Airshow. “It’s going to be a great aircraft. If you read deeper into the aircraft, it will be very competitive wit...

A330neo passes detailed design review

Airbus’s re-engined A330neo has passed its detailed design review, some six months after concept freeze. The airframer embarked on detailed component design work for the Rolls-Royce Trent 7000-powered twinjet around mid-2015. Airbus disclosed during the Singapore air show that the aircraft had “successfully passed” the detailed design review in December, a few weeks after m...

Rockwell Collins delivers weather radar to KAI for Korean Utility Helicopter program

Rockwell Collins has delivered its first RTA-4100 MultiScanTM Weather Radar to KAI for the medevac variant of the Korean Utility Helicopter. This is the first selection of the new RTA-4100 Weather Radar with enhanced surface search modes in the Asia-Pacific region. “Our RTA-4100 MultiScan Weather Radar will provide enhanced safety and mission capability during the highly adverse weat...

Viking Floats “400S” Seaplane Derivative of Series 400 Twin Otter

Changi Exhibition Centre, Singapore:relatively untapped seaplane market has led Viking Air Limited of Victoria, British Columbia, to introduce the world’s first dedicated seaplane in the 15 to 19-passenger category, the Viking Twin Otter 400S Seaplane. Recognized as the world’s leading seaplane manufacturer, Viking has developed the new 400S variant of the Series 400 to optimize the Tw...

Pratt & Whitney opens first manufacturing facility in Singapore

On February 15th Pratt & Whitney officially opened its first manufacturing facility in Singapore, through its subsidiary P&W NGPF Manufacturing Company Singapore. The 180,000 ft² (approximately 16,000 m²) facility, located at Seletar Aerospace Park, will produce fan blades and other key components for Pratt & Whitney’s new PurePower Geared Turbofan (GTF) engine fami...

Legacy 500 Makes Singapore Debut

Claudio Camelier, v-p sales for Middle East and Asia Pacific (not including China) for Embraer Executive Jets (EEJ), told AIN last week that the region accounts for 10 percent of its fleet now. At the Singapore Airshow, the highlight for the Brazilian company will be the debut of its Legacy 500 here; it also has a Phenom 100, a Phenom 300 and a Legacy here on the static display....

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