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NewsDaher-Socata launches TBM 900. First deliveries planned for 20 March
French airframer Daher-Socata has turned up the heat in the single-engined turboprop market with the unveiling of its TBM 900. First deliveries of the high-speed aircraft – the latest evolution of the 25-year-old TBM design – will be made to three customers in the USA and Europe on 20 March.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Can airlines take share and profits?
One of the most striking things about IATA’s robust industry profit outlooks over the last couple of years has been the way the extra capacity that airlines have added has been soaked up without derailing profitability.
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India could buy more unmanned Harops
India's air force is evaluating the purchase of additional Israel Aerospace Industries Harop loitering munitions, as deliveries continue under a previous order placed in 2012.
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NewsAustralian search for MH370 gets underway in Indian Ocean
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has issued details about the Indian Ocean search area for the Malaysia Airlines 777-200ER that disappeared under mysterious circumstances on Saturday 8 March.
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US Navy to request additional Boeing E/A-18G Growlers
The US Navy confirms it wants to buy additional Boeing E/A-18G Growler aircraft, a move the service says will protect the nation’s industrial base and provide the Navy with the electronic warfare capability it will need in the coming decades.
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NewsCHC reshapes fleet with heavy helicopter bias
Canadian operator CHC Helicopter has reiterated its plan to reshape its fleet, increasing the number of heavy rotorcraft in its portfolio to take advantage of continued growth in deepwater and ultra-deepwater oil and gas exploration.
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NewsUSAF defends A-10 retirements on Capitol Hill
The battle over the future of the US Air Force's fleet of Fairchild Republic A-10s has moved to the US Congress, with lawmakers questioning the service's plan to retire its roughly 320 A-10s.
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NewsUncertainty remains over MH370's ACARS status
Malaysian authorities have rekindled confusion over the sequence of events on board the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200, with apparently differing accounts of the status of the ACARS messaging system.
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NewsInnovata schedules business joins Flightglobal family
Innovata is to join Flightglobal within the parent Reed Elsevier group, bringing together the leading sources of airline schedules and fleet data under a single brand.
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NewsPICTURE: Final assembly starts on A320neo
Airbus has commenced final assembly of the first A320neo, the re-engined version of its single-aisle A320 family.
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NewsPatria, Ruag step-up F-18 support offer
Operators of Boeing’s legacy F/A-18 could benefit from a collaboration agreement between two European firms currently responsible for providing national support for the type.
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NewsHunt for MH370 gets underway in northern, southern corridors
Malaysian authorities have confirmed that extensive search and rescue efforts have commenced in both the southern and northern corridors that the lost Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is believed to have traversed.
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Boeing wins A$901 million Wedgetail sustainment deal
Australia has granted Boeing a five year, A$901 million ($816 million) extension for sustainment of the country’s 737-700 based E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning & control (AEW&C) aircraft.
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Israel boosts anti-UAS defences
The Israeli air force is adapting some of its systems and adding others, to be ready for a wide unmanned air systems attack on targets inside the country in a future military confrontation.
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News‘Equal importance’ given to both corridors in MH370 search
Malaysia is giving “equal importance” to searching the two corridors that the missing Malaysia Airlines 777-200ER may have travelled after it turned towards the Andaman Sea on the morning of 8 March.
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NewsMissing MH370 flew in westerly direction for several hours
Malaysian authorities have confirmed that the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER deviated from its flight path on 8 March and that the aircraft last made satellite contact at 08:11 local time, about seven hours after it disappeared from secondary air traffic control (ATC) radar.
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NewsCessna, Beech unite as $4.6B Textron Aviation segment
Beechcraft and Cessna will be combined into a single division led by Scott Ernest after Textron has completed the $1.4 billion acquisition of the company founded by Walter and Olive Ann Beech in 1929.
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Bond fights back against negligence claims
North Sea operator Bond Offshore Helicopters has moved to defend itself from accusations of negligence following a court ruling that a 2009 fatal crash involving one of its Airbus Helicopters AS332 Super Pumas could have been prevented.
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NewsInmarsat confirms automated signals from MH370
Inmarsat has confirmed that signals from the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 were registered by its satellite network.
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NewsNot enough MH370 data to relocate search: minister
Malaysia's government is not yet prepared to commit its search effort for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 away from the original site off the eastern coast.