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Airbus confident in financing for 2009 deliveries
Buoyed by financial support from export credit agencies Airbus believes the majority of its deliveries this year will gain financing. Airbus Americas...
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Picture: China’s Chongqing takes first A319
China's Chongqing takes first A319 Chongqing Airlines has received the first of three Airbus A319s on lease from International Lease...
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PICTURE: Arrow Cargo DC-10 sheds large engine parts over Manaus
Brazilian authorities have identified a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 freighter which shed a large engine part over the city of Manaus as being from the fleet...
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India withdraws attack helicopter request for proposals
India has withdrawn a request for proposals issued last year for the acquisition of 22 attack helicopters, announcing that remaining bidders AgustaWestland,...
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VIDEOS: London Heathrow Terminal 5 - first anniversary but is it working?
VIDEOS: London Heathrow Terminal 5 - first anniversary but is it working?
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American reaches new ASAP agreement with pilots
American Airlines has reached a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with its pilots' union on a new Aviation Safety Action Programme (ASAP), ATI has learned.
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Air France-KLM predicts €200m full-year operating loss
Air France-KLM is forecasting an operating loss of €200 million ($270 million) for the full fiscal year, which ends on 31 March. Chief executive Pierre-Henri...
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Fifth V-22 with loose bolts points to design problem
US Naval Air Systems Command confirms today that a fifth MV-22 -- and the first US-based aircraft – is afflicted with the same “loose bolts” problem that caused the fleet to be grounded earlier this week
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FAA may mirror EASA with aircraft exit rule
The US Federal Aviation Administration is considering adopting a new requirement concerning "self-help" escape exits if and when the European Aviation Safety...
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Brussels poised to push for controversial halon replacement
Brussels in bid to ban halon use on airliners
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Southwest eyes up entry into long-haul market
Southwest Airlines is looking into the idea of entering codeshare deals with long-haul carriers, and does not rule out the possibility that it could one...
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Switzerland to slip fighter selection by six months
Swiss defence minister Ueli Maurer has announced a six-month delay to the nation's selection process for a Northrop F-5 fighter replacement ...
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Royal Air Maroc to take six ATR 72-600s for new regional airline
Royal Air Maroc is planning to announce an order for six ATR 72-600s later today which will be used to launch its new domestic operation, tentatively dubbed...
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VIDEO: Lufthansa Cargo chief says freight crisis exceeds worst forecasts
Lufthansa Cargo chairman and CEO Carsten Spohr admits that the sudden cargo downturn has exceeded even the company's most extreme crisis planning scenarios,...
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Six-month delay for first Ares I five-segment rocket test
NASA's first firing test of the five-segment solid rocket motor, DM-1, for the Ares I crew launch vehicle , has been...
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Investigators review icing, weight and balance implication in PC-12 crash
Pilatus Aircraft has confirmed that the PC-12 that crashed on approach to Butte, Montana on 22 March was carrying seven children and seven adults despite...
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SIA fails to rule out possibility of deferring A380 deliveries
Singapore Airlines is not ruling out the possibilityof deferring some later Airbus A380 deliveries. The carrier, which has received six of 13 A380s it has...
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Cessna stands by its light sport aircraft
Cessna chief executive Jack Pelton says the company will stand by its light sport single-engine entry level SkyCatcher aircraft despite having the second...