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Airbus supplier Sonaca faces bill to correct 'aesthetics' on 300 slats
Belgian aerospace manufacturer Sonaca Group is to pay €3 million ($3.8 million) to Airbus to correct problems on a batch of leading-edge slats. Some...
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American inks sale-leaseback deal on ATR 72s
American Airlines parent AMR expects to net $200 million on a sale-leaseback deal it has arranged with Nordic Aviation Capital and another Danish investment...
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Transaero wants better spares supply as second Tu-214 arrives
Russian carrier Transaero has taken delivery of a second Tupolev Tu-214 aircraft, part of batch of 10 being acquired by the operator.
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Canadian start-up Enerjet secures AOC
Canadian start-up charter operator Enerjet has secured its air operator's certificate and operating licence from the country's regulatory authorities. Privately-owned...
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Recorders from crashed A320 'badly damaged': ANZ
Both the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) from the Air New Zealand (ANZ) Airbus A320 that crashed in France last week were badly...
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Bell 429 engines receive type certification
Pratt & Whitney Canada today announced receiving certification for PW207D1 and PW207D2 turboshaft engines,...
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Cut single-aisle production by 10 aircraft a month next year: Hazy
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Seville aims for top European aerospace billing
REGIONS An airlift for Seville The southern Spanish city is not letting the A400M crisis derail its plans to establish itself as a major European...
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Basque aerospace skills benefit Airbus and Boeing
MANUFACTURING Basqueing in glory Airbus and Boeing are both benefiting from the engineering and manufacturing skills of north-west Spain niall...
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TAP seeks higher margins as space constraints bite
MAINTENANCE Tapping into MRO Brazilian acquisition gives TAP Air Portugal's maintenance arm room to expand as parent airline's growth squeezes...
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OGMA hopes defensive strength can bring stable 2009
MAINTENANCE & MANUFACTURING OGMA sets new course Privatisation has brought changes to the corporate culture of Portugal's big maintenance and...
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E-190 steep approach trials slip but '09 certification still planned
Embraer is maintaining the expectation that the E-190 will secure steep approach certification next year, but is staying mum about a slight slip in the timeline...
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DARPA funds distributed electric fan propulsion study
Distributed electric fan propulsion is the focus of a $475,000 Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) study awarded...
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Boeing Phantom Works races to develop computational fluid dynamics tools with Renault F1
Boeing aims to capitalise on the opening of a new £10 million ($15 million) computational fluid dynamics research centre by...
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PICTURES: Emirates A380 begins Dubai-Heathrow flights
Emirates has commenced Airbus A380 services on the Dubai-London Heathrow route today, with the first flight conducted with the carrier's third example of...
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Nigeria's Arik Air takes delivery of first A340-500
Nigerian carrier Arik Air has formally taken delivery of its first Airbus A340-500 during an event at the airframer's Toulouse headquarters.