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EgyptAir A320 search focusing on distress beacon signal
Egyptian and Greek authorities are concentrating a search for the missing EgyptAir Airbus A320 after indicating that an emergency signal has been received.
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Missing EgyptAir A320 operated by experienced pilot
EgyptAir says its missing Airbus A320 was built in 2003, and operated by an experienced captain.
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EgyptAir flight vanished after entering Egyptian airspace
EgyptAir says that flight MS804 lost radar contact about 3.5 hours after taking off from Paris, and just 10 minutes after entering Egyptian airspace.
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EgyptAir flight loses radar contact
EgyptAir has confirmed that one of its aircraft has lost radar contact while operating a flight from Paris to Cairo.
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ISTAT: Chinese lessors look abroad for returns
Chinese lessors are looking outside the Middle Kingdom for new growth opportunities, as they aim to expand their reach and improve returns.
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ANALYSIS: Asia LCC alliance to take on region's budget giants
In talks with each other since over a year ago, eight low-cost carriers in the Asia-Pacific and Oceania regions announced on 16 May that they have formed a landmark alliance that will “transform Asia Pacific’s low-cost market”.
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VIDEO: AW169 touches down at rotorcraft convention in Florida
AgustaWestland’s US-based AW169 commercial helicopter took time out from flight envelope expansion activities this week to thrill attendees of the American Helicopter Society (AHS) International’s 72nd annual meeting in West Palm Beach, Florida, by land in a narrow loading dock behind the local convention centre.
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AgustaWestland pitching TH-119 as USN trainer
AgustaWestland has proposed a version of the commercial AW119Kx to replace the US Navy’s outdated fleet of Bell 206-based TH-57 SeaRanger trainers.
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Embraer clinches US approval for Sorocaba service centre
Embraer has secured Federal Aviation Administration approval for its service centre in Sorocaba, São Paulo, paving the way for the company-owned facility to perform maintenance and support services on N-registered business jets across the airframer’s portfolio.
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UK MoD funds further development of Spear 3 missile
MBDA has been awarded a contract by the UK Ministry of Defence for further development of its Spear 3 missile for use on the Lockheed Martin F-35B.
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USN to deploy new tube-launched UAV
The US Navy is to deploy a newly developed tube-launched unmanned air vehicle, able to launch from below or above the surface of the ocean from either a manned or unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV).
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Rotorcraft industry questions lengthy FVL timeline
The US Army is under pressure to speed up its Future Vertical Lift (FVL) acquisition as it seeks permission from the Pentagon to begin pursuing a mid-sized Capability Set 3 (CS3) aircraft to eventually succeed the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk and Boeing AH-64 Apache.
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PICTURES: Saab rolls out first Gripen E fighter
Saab has unveiled its next-generation Gripen E fighter, some three years before delivering its first of at least 96 production examples to the air forces of Sweden and Brazil.
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NetJets Europe gears up for Citation Latitude demonstration tour
NetJets Europe has taken delivery of its first Cessna Citation Latitude from a 2012 order for 25 of the midsize business jets to be distributed amongst the Lisbon, Portugal-headquartered fractional ownership operation and its US sister company.
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Cirrus Vision on final approach as P1 takes flight
Cirrus Aircraft’s Vision SF50 has entered the final stages of a 10-year certification effort, following the maiden sortie on 5 May of the first production model.
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Pilatus PC-24 to make show debut at EBACE
Pilatus's PC-24 business jet will make its international show debut on 24 May, when the first test aircraft – P01 – makes a brief appearance on the static display at the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition at Geneva.
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AMAC set to expand maintenance offering to Turkey
Swiss maintenance and interiors specialist AMAC Aerospace has acquired 6,400m² (69,000ft²) of land at Milas Bodrum airport in Turkey, on which it plans to build a new aircraft maintenance hangar.
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EBACE: GE Aviation Prague centre of excellence readies for Advanced Turboprop
With its mix of brand-new, five-axis CNC equipment and hand-cranked milling machines – some dating from just after the Second World War – a tour of GE Aviation’s Prague facility highlights the journey the one-time Walter Aircraft Engines has been on since becoming the US business’s first overseas fully integrated ...
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Flydubai crash probe completes cockpit recording transcript
Russian investigators have completed transcription work on the cockpit exchanges between the pilots of the Flydubai Boeing 737-800 which crashed at Rostov-on-Don.
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ISTAT: Jeju Air targets 40 aircraft by 2019
Jeju Air plans to grow its fleet of Boeing 737-800s to about 40 aircraft by 2019, says director of planning Hyuk Park.