All air transport news – Page 1497
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Orderbook reveals Boeing booked single undisclosed launch order for passenger 747-8 Intercontinental last month
Boeing yesterday booked its first order passenger version of its 747-8 aircraft, although the manufacturer is remaining silent on which client has placed the launch order.
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Indonesia's Merpati places largest order for Chinese Xian Aircraft MA60 turboprops, taking 15
Indonesian state-owned carrier Merpati Nusantara has signed an order for 15 Xian Aircraft MA60s, the biggest export order yet for the Chinese-built turboprop.
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Pictures: Varig Brazilian World Cup player transport MD-11 joins growing football-liveried fleet
Brazilian national carrier Varig has been parading the aircraft it used to transport its national football team to Switzerland last month around its long haul network ahead of the global soccer championship this week.
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Pictures: Gulfstream flight tests G550 Compact Airborne Early Warning platform for Israel ahead of August delivery
Gulfstream has begun flight testing the first G550 busines jet modified to be Israel's Compact Airborne Early Warning (CAEW) platform. The aircraft has been heavily modified to accept the Elta Systems Phalcon phased-array radar, which will be installed after the first CAEW G550 is delivered to Israel at the end ...
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Continental confirms order with Boeing for 10 additional 787s plus 24 737s
US mainline carrier Continental Airlines has confirmed it is ordering 10 more Boeing 787s, adding to the 10 orders it announced in December 2004.
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Shares in 'New Embraer' company close at R$18.49 after first days of trading on Bovespa Novo Mercado
Shares in Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer shares were trading at R$18.49 ($8.22) on Wednesday morning following the company’s listing on the Novo Mercado section of Brazil’s Bovespa stock exchange in São Paulo on Monday
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Potter's reasons to be cheerful
Frontier Airlines' front man Jeff Potter is still smiling, despite stiff competition from low-cost carrier Southwest
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Pictures: GE investigates cause of American Airlines Boeing 767-200 uncontained CF6-80A engine failure that led to aircraft fire
General Electric is investigating the cause of an apparent uncontained engine failure which caused extensive damage to an American Airlines Boeing 767-200 at Los Angeles on Friday.
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Boeing 787 testing moves into high gear, with systems and fuselage trials
Software and hardware systems being put through their initial paces, as fuselage segments continue trials
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Medevac Learjet 35A in 2004 fatal accident was 'cleared to fly into mountain' says US aviation safety agency preliminary report
A Bombardier Learjet 35A air ambulance took off at night under visual flight rules (VFR) and crashed into a mountain after an air traffic controller gave the crew a heading towards high terrain, according to a US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) preliminary report on the 2004 accident. All five ...
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US Airways indifferent to Airbus’s A350 dilemma, even if 20-aircraft order scrapped
Airframer’s internal debate will not affect fleet replacement plans, says carrier