The first Airbus A319 for Gulf Air is being prepared for delivery by Skyservice Airlines at its Toronto base. The five-year-old CFM International CFM56-powered, International Lease Finance owned aircraft will join Bahrain-based Gulf Air's existing Airbus single-aisle fleet that comprises 10 A320s and two A321-200s.
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Source: Flight International
Emirates Airline hopes by next summer to be operating both versions of the Airbus A350-900 it has on order, as deliveries of the widebody twin to the Gulf carrier ramp up.
Airbus intends to finalise readiness of jigs and tools on its A350 final assembly line over the next six months in order to handle the manufacture of the freighter variant of the twinjet type. Designated the A350-1000F, the freighter is sized between the -900 and -1000 passenger versions and this, ...
Sweden’s Heart Aerospace has selected Plattsburgh International airport in upstate New York as the location for the maiden sortie of its HX-1 demonstrator – a flight that will take place with a pilot on board.
