All Orders & Deliveries news – Page 231
-
News
Domestic dancing
The surge in new entrants to the Colombian market is over but major challenges remain. David Knibb reviews the progress of the five main players. Nowadays Colombians seem naturally optimistic. The heady days of growth are still a fresh enough memory for few to be willing to predict their airlines ...
-
News
Converted A300F lands in Paris with FAA approval
British Aerospace Aviation Services (BAeAS) has received US Federal Aviation Administration approval for its Airbus A300B4 freighter conversion, some six months later than originally targeted. Meanwhile, C-S Aviation Services, which is BAe's major customer for the conversion, has announced its first lease-placements, with the confirmation of two aircraft ...
-
News
China switches AE31X assembly plans
Aviation INDUSTRIES of China (AVIC) has switched plans for the final assembly of the proposed AE31X family of regional aircraft from Shanghai to Xian, in an move which threatens to complicate development and logistical support of the international programme. China's State Council is understood to have dropped Shanghai ...
-
News
Marketplace
++ Montreal-based Royal Airlines has sold two Boeing 727s to Texan leasing company Aircorp for C$10 million ($7.25 million), to help pay for three Airbus A310-300s. The carrier still operates five 727s, as well as two Lockheed L-1011 TriStars. ++ Boeing has delivered its 757th 757, a Pratt & Whitney ...
-
News
Customer interest is renewed as first MD-95 takes shape
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) hopes to conduct final negotiations at the Paris air show with potential MD-95-30 customers as production of the first twinjet moves into final assembly. "Our timing is good because we want to place orders 21 months before delivery," says MD-95 vice- president and general manager ...
-
News
CFMI joins Chinese in new working alliance
CFM International (CFMI) and Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) have joined forces in a Joint Leadership Council to coordinate activities and promote a closer working relationship between the two organisations. Talks are being pursued at the Paris air show between Gerard Laviec, CFMI chairman and chief executive officer, ...
-
News
Finnair opts for new Airbus fleet
Finnair has chosen Airbus Industrie A319, A320 and A321 aircraft to replace its McDonnell Douglas (MDC) fleet, it has beenannounced at the Show. The $388-million deal is significant in the new commercial aviation world where Boeing is acquiring MDC, leaving it to battle it out with Airbus. ...
-
News
Europe's long-range twin
Austrian Airlines will in August 1998 become the first European operator of the A330-200 The A330-200 shares flightdeck commonality with the other Airbus fly-by-wire aircraft Emirates is replacing its fleet of A300-600Rs and A310-300s with R-R Trent-powered A330-200s The first wingbox being manufactured by ...
-
News
Leases set for Tu-204
Sirocco Aerospace International plans to announce its first lease commitments for the Rolls-Royce RB.211-535E4-powered Tupolev Tu-204-120, following the certification of the engine/airframe combination by the Russian Air Registry, and the first delivery later this month. Sirocco was officially launched in Moscow in December 1996 by Egypt's Kato Group ...
-
News
Swissair closes on MD-10 conversion work
Swissair's SR Technics maintenance subsidiary has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) to fit up to 25 DC-10-10s with an advanced, Honeywell-designed, two-crew flightdeck under Phase II of the FedEx MD-10 programme. MDC confirms that the MoU has been agreed, but adds that "-it ...
-
News
UK carriers close on A300F contracts
SEVERAL UK-based cargo airlines are confirming plans to begin operating Airbus A300 freighters, as DHL works towards the introduction of the widebody on its intra-European network. Heavylift Cargo Airlines is understood to have concluded a deal with C-S Aviation Services for two British Aerospace Aviation Services (BAeAS)-converted A300B4 ...
-
News
Marketplace
++ US start-up carrier, Nashville-based Corporate Express Airlines, is to lease four more Jetstream 32s from British Aerospace Asset Management - Turboprops, bringing its total fleet to ten aircraft ++ Air Labrador, based in Goose Bay, Canada, has received its first Beech 1900D from Raytheon Aircraft. The airline holds options ...
-
News
Delays force Mesa to curtail Dash 8 order
MESA AIR GROUP has cancelled the remaining 13 of a 25-aircraft order for Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-200 regional turboprops, citing delivery delays and technical problems. Options on a further 25 aircraft have been cancelled, but Mesa says that it will keep 12 Dash 8s already delivered. Bombardier ...
-
News
Aircraft news
Atlantic Southeast Airlines has ordered 30 Canadair Regional Jet 200s, plus 60 options, with deliveries starting in August. British Columbia-based Central Mountain Air has ordered 10 Beech 1900Ds, with 10 options, with deliveries between April and November. American Eagle has ordered 12 ATR72-210As, with deliveries between ...
-
News
China limits CAL's choice
China Airlines' search for a foreign airline equity partner is being frustrated by potential bidders' fears of upsetting Beijing and the Taiwanese carrier is likely to find its choice of investors limited to the Chinese mainland. The quasi-governmental foundation that owns 81 per cent of China Airlines plans ...
-
News
Grizzly delivery
Kaman has delivered a K-MAX external-lift helicopter to Grizzly Mountain Aviation, of Prineville, Oregon. The company has now sold 13 of the intermeshing-rotor helicopters, and two are on lease to operators. Grizzly Mountain will use the single-seat, single-engined aircraft for logging operations. An aircraft was also recently handed over to ...
-
News
ANZ drops Rolls for GE on next 747-400
AIR NEW ZEALAND (ANZ) has switched its allegiance from Rolls-Royce to General Electric for its next Boeing 747-400, due for delivery in 1998. The flag carrier opted for GE's CF6-80C2 over R-R's proposed RB.211-524G/H-T improved turbofan. The decision is a setback for the UK manufacturer's effort to sell ...
-
News
Chirac's Chinese visit reaps a harvest of civil orders
China Aviation Supplies (CASC) has placed a $1.5 billion order for a second batch of 30 Airbus Industrie A320/A321s, further strengthening the European consortium's growing presence in that country. It is the biggest of three deals announced during the visit of French president Jacques Chirac to Beijing in ...
-
News
AlliedSignal Lear 45 engine is approved
The AlliedSignal TFE731-20 turbofan, the third and last model to be developed in the series of new-generation business-aircraft powerplants, has received US Federal Aviation Administration certification. The engine powers Bombardier's Lear 45 and is rated with a take-off thrust of 16kN (3,650lb) at sea level up to 34 ...
-
News
AASI begins revised Jetcruzer stretch
Advanced Aerodynamics and Structures (AASI) has begun work at its Long Beach factory in California on the stretched Jetcruzer 500P, a pressurised high-speed version of the original Jetcruzer 450. "It will be pressurised to 30,000ft [9,150m] with a good high-altitude engine," says AASI executive vice-president Gene Comfort. "We're ...