Embraer subsidiary ECC Leasing has sold a second ERJ-145 regional jet to Brazil's federal police department. The 50-seat pre-owned aircraft is scheduled for delivery in the first half of the year - three years after the police received the first type. The aircraft will be used for a range of missions, says Embraer, including transporting officials, border control, and combating international drug trafficking and terrorism.
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Source: Flight International
Boeing has tweaked upward its 20-year aircraft-demand forecast, predicting airlines will need more jets than previously expected due to an extraordinarily large number of older aircraft that soon must be replaced.
Airbus’s A321XLR has initially been certified with a maximum take-off weight of 97t, but the airframer is working on approval for higher weights for the twinjet. This 97t figure is the same MTOW as the XLR’s immediate predecessor, the A321LR. The airframer had originally stated – when its unveiled the ...
Colorado-based Boom continues soldiering on, and chief executive and founder Blake Scholl insists the company will yet make good on its aim to have Overture carry paying passengers by around the end of this decade.
