Swiss manufacturer Pilatus Aircraft says its Next Generation PC-12 is at flightdeck supplier Honeywell for the last phase of flight testing. Production of the upgraded single turboprop is sold out to the end of 2009, says chief executive Thomas Hunziker.
Source: Flight International
Airbus aims to sign a contract by the end of this year for the acquisition of work packages currently managed by US firm Spirit AeroSystems. The airframer previously signed a detailed binding term sheet setting out its plans to take over the A350 fuselage production in North Carolina and St ...
United Aircraft acknowledges that it is having to work its way around delays to the domestically-built Aviadvigatel PD-8 engine as its progresses with flight-testing the Yakovlev SJ-100. The SJ-100 is a version of the Superjet 100 adapted to feature a higher proportion of Russian-build components and systems. These include PD-8 ...
Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury acknowledges that the airframer is again having to cope with a heavily-backloaded fourth quarter, but views it as a consequence of trying to ramp-up production while addressing unexpected disruptive events.
