Shenzhen Financial Leasing, a new Chinese aircraft leasing company, has signed an agreement with China Aviation Industry Corp I to purchase 60 Xian Aircraft MA-60s. The aircraft, to be delivered over the next five years, will be leased to local airlines.
Source: Airline Business
Middle Eastern carrier Emirates is ordering another five Boeing 777Fs, doubling its outstanding orders for the freighter model.
Airbus is estimating demand for 42,430 new aircraft deliveries over the next two decades, with a higher proportion – some 44%, compared with last year’s 42% – set to serve as replacements.
UK investigators have disclosed that a vintage glider was damaged in collision with a small drone being flown by a young operator. The Slingsby T21B – built in 1947 – has a high-wing configuration and an open cockpit, with two seats arranged side-by-side. It had been carrying a pilot and ...
