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Improvement in Q400 supply chain aids production boost
Bombardier's efforts to iron out supply chain challenges associated with its Q400 programme have borne fruit, with the airframer positioning itself to achieve...
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Picture: Boeing 737-based Wedgetails complete tests following modification in Australia
The two Boeing 737-based Wedgetail airborne early warning and control system aircraft to undergo modification in Australia completed functional check flights...
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NewsP&W rules out any early move to offer GTF architecture for widebody powerplant
Pratt & Whitney has ruled out any near-term development of a high-thrust development of its GTF...
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Boeing targets new A-10 support deal
Boeing is seeking to win a larger role of the multi-billion market for maintaining and upgrading the US Air Force's Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack...
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PICTURE: Spain's AeBal to rebrand as Quantum Air
Former SAS Group operator Aerolineas de Baleares (AeBal) is to rebrand as Quantum Air and relocate its headquarters from Palma de Mallorca to Madrid. The...
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Abu Dhabi buys RJ100 Avro Business Jet
BAE Systems Regional Aircraft has sold an RJ100 Avro Business Jet to the Amiri Flight of Abu Dhabi. The aircraft is a late model Avro RJ100. Following its...
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NewsBA's nine-month operating profit falls 88%
British Airways has turned in an 88% drop in operating profit to £89 million ($131 million) for the first nine months of this year, and generated a pre-tax...
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China Eastern outlines plans to cancel and delay aircraft
The president of loss-making China Eastern Airlines says the airline is to delay or cancel about half of the 29 aircraft it is due to receive from Airbus...
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Mexicana closes in on 717s and evaluates CSeries
Mexicana is close to finalising a deal to lease 25 Boeing 717s and is looking at acquiring the Bombardier CSeries as a potential replacement for the 717s...
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Boeing considers "modest' delivery cuts in 2010
Boeing Commercial Airplanes has considered making production cuts in 2010 depending on how the market responds to worsening economic and financing trends.
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Florida legislators prepare to introduce new airport wildlife management bill
Florida legislators are drafting a proposal to grant airports immunity from state and local liabilities to implement wildlife mitigation plans following...
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Learjet pilot praised after low-level evasion averts A109 mid-air
Irish investigators have praised the airmanship of a Bombardier Learjet 31A pilot whose swift reactions, immediately after lift-off, averted a mid-air collision...
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FAA releases recording of ATC exchanges during Hudson River ditching
The US Federal Aviation Administration has released the air traffic control recordings and transcripts of the whole US Airways Hudson River ditching incident...
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NewsIAI to send G550-based AEW system to Aero India
Israel Aerospace Industries will send a Gulfstream G550-based conformal airborne early warning and control (CAEW) system aircraft to the Aero India 2009 show ...
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Unmanned cargo aircraft 'have battlefield role' says US Army official
A top US Army acquisition official has conceded that a legitimate, but limited, role exists today on the battlefield for an unmanned cargo aircraft. Speaking...
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Porter eyes more Bombardier Q400s
Canadian startup carrier Porter Airlines may order additional Bombardier Q400 turboprops.
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Bombardier keeps the faith on CSeries
Bombardier's self-imposed deadline to ink firm orders for its geared turbofan (GTF)-powered CSeries airliner passed unceremoniously on 31 January with no...
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Schuster: Hawker Beechcraft to cut 2,300 more employees
Hawker Beechcraft chief executive Jim Schuster in a 3 February letter to employees says the company must...
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NewsBombardier cuts business aircraft production, begins layoffs
Dramatically reduced demand for business aircraft has prompted Bombardier to cut Learjet and Challenger production rates, and layoff 1,360 workers or 4.5%...