Air cargo operator Kitty Hawk is to lease seven Boeing 737-300SF special freighters from GE Capital Aviation Services, becoming the US launch customer for a conversion programme offered by the Bedek division of Israel Aircraft Industries. The first aircraft will be delivered to the operator in November 2004, with the balance arriving by the end of 2005.
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.
