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MRJ certification requires extra hours, more jets
Mitsubishi Aircraft is reviewing the MRJ regional jet's flight test plans, and estimates that the programme will now require around 500 extra flight hours and up to two additional aircraft to achieve certification.
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Mitsubishi plans MRJ debut at Paris air show
Mitsubishi Aircraft is working to bring one of its MRJ regional jet prototypes to the Paris air show.
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MRO sector to top $75b in 2017, as worker crunch looms
The MRO industry may struggle with a shortage of qualified technicians as soon as 2022 - the fallout from a period of record aircraft orders and reluctance by airlines to retire older types, according to aviation industry consultants.
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Bell Helicopter, Embraer partner with Uber for electric VTOL taxis
Bell Helicopter and Embraer on 25 April separately announced that each will partner with ride-sharing provider Uber to develop hybrid- or all-electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles to provide short-range transport within urban centres.
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Air Lease prices $345 million Thunderbolt securitisation
Air Lease's $345 million securitisation Thunderbolt (TBOLT 2017 -1) has priced today, sources working on the deal say.
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JetBlue switches A321neos as Pratt troubles persist
JetBlue Airways has switched its first three Airbus A321neos to the A321ceos, in what it calls a "prudent" move as issues continue to be reported with the Pratt & Whitney PW1100G engines that will power the airline's aircraft.
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Alitalia shareholders to meet on 27 April as crisis mounts
Alitalia has called a crunch shareholders meeting for 27 April to "initiate procedures proved for by law" after a planned recapitalisation was hit by workers rejecting cuts in a new a labour deal.
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Kuwaiti Caracals now in Airbus Helicopters' firm backlog
Kuwait has officially signed an order for 30 Airbus Helicopters H225Ms, with the heavy twins now in the airframer's firm backlog, FlightGlobal understands.
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StandardAero bolsters European MRO offering
US maintenance, repair and overhaul company StandardAero is bolstering its Honeywell HTF7000 engine support capabilities in Europe, in anticipation of a rise in work as more aircraft powered by the turbofan family enter service across the region.
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Italy's Ernest Airlines eyes international expansion
Italy’s Ernest Airlines could expand into European markets outside of Albania as soon as this winter, commercial director Ilza Xhelo discloses.
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EASA proposes narrower runways for large aircraft
European safety regulators are proposing to update airport design requirements which will include formally narrowing the required runway width for high-capacity transport aircraft.
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PoziDrone spins up quadcopter testing
Aeronautics Defense Systems' PoziDrone subsidiary is conducting flight tests using a trio of quadcopter designs, having opted to develop such systems to fulfil military and civilian applications.
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Comlux delivers its first VIP-configured Sukhoi Superjet
Comlux Completion, the US maintenance, repair and overhaul arm of business aviation services provider Comlux, has delivered its first VIP-configured Sukhoi Superjet S100 (SBJ) to Kazakhstan copper mining company Kazakhmys.
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ANALYSIS: US Army builds a Black Hawk bridge to Future Vertical Lift
The US Army's Future Vertical Lift programme is bold - but costly and distant; meanwhile, an upgrade of the venerable UH-60 Black Hawk is under way
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Airbus plans unique liveries for Beluga XL fleet
Airbus is considering a series of individual paint schemes for its forthcoming fleet of five Beluga XL high-capacity transports.
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Lessor SMBC buys three more 737-800s
Aircraft lessor SMBC Aviation Capital is to purchase three Boeing 737-800s, bringing its total owned, managed and committed portfolio for the type to 198.
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ANALYSIS: Iceland basks in tourism boom
To gauge something of the extraordinary increase in air traffic to Iceland in recent years, you need look no further than the growth in the Icelandair fleet, chief executive Birkir Holm Gudnason suggests.
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ANALYSIS: Norwegian's Gatwick-Singapore gambit
Norwegian's eye-catching move to launch long-haul, low-cost services on the Singapore-London Gatwick route injects some fresh competition into a sector flown only by mainline carriers.
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Boeing/Saab fly second T-X test aircraft
The second T-X aircraft built by Boeing and Saab has completed a 1h first flight, one month after at least three bidding teams submitted proposals for the US Air Force’s Northrop T-38 trainer replacement contract.
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GAO warns of one-year, $1.7 billion delay for F-35
Development testing of the Lockheed Martin F-35 could be delayed by 12 months and cost another $1.7 billion, the US Government Accountability Office (GA0) warns in a new report published on 24 April.