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NewsAirbus full-year deliveries fall by a third to 566 aircraft
Airbus managed to deliver 566 aircraft last year, with a surge of 89 deliveries in the final month of 2020. The figure was nevertheless 34% down on the 863 it managed to hand over in the previous year, as the airframer’s activity suffered from the impact of the air transport ...
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NewsCALC orders 30 ARJ21s with Indonesian carrier TransNusa
China Aircraft Leasing has placed an order for 30 Comac ARJ21 aircraft with an Indonesian airline, in which CALC and two of its most senior executives have a 49% stake, as a co-buyer.
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NewsAerolease cancels SpaceJet orders amid programme freeze
US-based lessor Aerolease Aviation has cancelled its commitments for Mitsubishi Aircraft’s SpaceJet programme, the airframer has disclosed.
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AnalysisWill US military end user list clip MA700’s wings?
The Avic MA700 turboprop finds itself in an awkward situation after airframer Xian Aircraft showed up on the US government’s Military End User list. With progress on the aircraft at a glacial pace, could the US government’s move seal the MA700’s fate?
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NewsUK’s Titan receives first of three converted A321 freighters
UK operator Titan Airways’ is to introduce three Airbus A321 converted freighters to its fleet, with the first one newly redelivered from modification specialists ST Engineering and EFW. Powered by CFM International CFM56 engines, the aircraft, MSN1238, was originally delivered to MyTravel Airways in 2000, and subsequently operated by Thomas ...
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NewsAirbus UK's Bennett to head technology initiative HVM Catapult
Airbus senior vice-president Katherine Bennett is to step down from heading the airframer’s UK division, to lead HVM Catapult, a specialist organisation developed to provide a manufacturing gateway for promising technologies. Bennett, who will succeed retiring chief executive Dick Elsy later this year, says the organisation will contribute to the ...
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NewsUS hits Europe with new tariffs on aircraft parts
The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) has placed new tariffs on aircraft manufacturing parts as well as some alcohol products from the European Union in an ongoing transatlantic spat about aerospace subsidies.
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NewsAirbus relieved over post-Brexit deal but yet to analyse details
Airbus is yet to assess the consequences of the newly-agreed future relationship between the UK and the European Union. But it believes the “potential disruption” which would have arisen from failure to reach a post-Brexit agreement “has been avoided”. Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury says he “welcomes” the deal, unveiled ...
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NewsBoeing to speed up transfer of 787 production to South Carolina: reports
Boeing is reportedly speeding up the transfer of all 787 aircraft production to its North Charleston, South Carolina plant.
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NewsYak-40 fitted with propeller for superconducting motor test
Russian researchers are planning to test-fly a Yakovlev Yak-40 modified with a superconducting electric motor and propeller mounted on the trijet’s nose. The Moscow-based Central Institute of Aviation Motors expects the first flights to be carried out in 2021. Siberian aeronautical research centre SibNIA, located in Novosibirsk, installed the electric ...
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NewsVallair A321s to undergo freighter conversion in China
Airbus A321 converted freighter pioneer Vallair has disclosed that nine of the type will undergo modification in China, at the ST Engineering facility in Guangzhou. The initial aircraft to be converted will be MSN1017, a CFM International CFM56-powered twinjet which was originally delivered to First Choice Airways in 1999. Vallair ...
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InterviewSenate probe: 737 Max test pilots ‘coached’ to fit assumptions on MCAS reaction time
US Senate committee investigators believe Boeing and the US FAA tried to re-affirm controversial assumptions over pilot response times during 737 Max recertification, by pre-determining the outcome of tests on crew reactions to a runaway stabiliser. The Senate committee on commerce, science and transportation has found that Boeing “inappropriately coached” ...
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NewsMitsubishi Aircraft reportedly cuts 95% of staff
Beleaguered Mitsubishi Aircraft, whose flagship SpaceJet programme is effectively frozen amid cost cutting, is reported to have slashed 95% of its employees.
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NewsTitan A321LR is first with Airbus’s line-fit wireless IFE system
Airbus has delivered its first aircraft, an A321LR to Titan Airways, fitted with a line-fit in-flight entertainment system based on wireless communications architecture. The system features embedded servers and routers, wi-fi access points, and a software platform. Airbus says the open-software architecture provides airlines with the flexibility to source their ...
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NewsIl-114-300’s first lift-off marks second Russian maiden flight in two days
United Aircraft’s modernised Ilyushin Il-114-300 has carried out its maiden flight, a day after the first flight of the Russian-powered version of the Irkut MC-21. The twin-engined Il-114-300 lifted off from Moscow’s Zhukovsky airfield on 16 December, says state technology firm Rostec. Three crew members – two pilots and a ...
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NewsAirbus explores self-contained fuel-cell propulsors for zero-emission aircraft
Airbus is preparing a patent application for a distributed pod-based configuration for a hydrogen fuel-cell powerplants, which it is exploring as a possibility to overcome the problems of scaling up the technology to large transport aircraft. While smaller propeller-driven aircraft, up to around 20 seats, can take advantage of standard ...
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AnalysisAfter landmark ARJ21 deliveries, Comac hopes to break fresh ground in new year
Having secured relative success in the domestic market for its ARJ21 regional jet programme, Chinese airframer Comac will inevitably turn its attention to its C919 narrowbody, as it hopes to complete certification and delivery in the new year.
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NewsFedEx takes first line-built ATR 72-600 Freighter
ATR has handed over the first of 30 factory-built ATR 72-600 Freighters to launch customer FedEx Express, with the twin-turboprop to make its commercial debut on European routes in the coming weeks.
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NewsMC-21 with Russian-built PD-14 engines carries out maiden flight
Irkut has carried out the maiden flight of the MC-21-310, the version of the twinjet powered by Russian-built Aviadvigatel PD-14 engines. The flight – with aircraft number 73055 – took place from Irkutsk aviation plant’s airfield on 15 December and lasted about 1h 25min. It was crewed by two test ...
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NewsRolls-Royce continues Trent XWB blade-wear tests
Rolls-Royce has completed inspections of high-cycle Trent XWB-84 engines for premature wear on intermediate-pressure compressor blades, but has yet to fully determine the cause.