Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Jul 23, 2013
Russia’s Aeroflot ceased operations of its three Boeing MD-11Fs in mid-July.
Jul 22, 2013
New York LaGuardia Airport temporarily closed early Monday evening after a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737’s nose gear collapsed on landing.
Jul 22, 2013
FAA plans to make mandatory inspections of Honeywell emergency locator transmitters (ELT) on Boeing 787s, but has not said it will require the devices to be made inert or removed.
Jul 22, 2013
Norwegian Air Shuttle and Thomson Airways have removed the emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) from their Boeing 787s pending the outcome of an investigation into the Ethiopian Airlines 787 fire at London Heathrow Airport.
Jul 22, 2013
Tianjin-based Okay Airways has converted an order for three Boeing 737-800s to three 737-900ERS, making it the first Chinese carrier to order the -900ER.
Jan 09, 2018
Boeing delivered 763 commercial aircraft in 2017, led by placements of 529 single-aisle 737s—including 74 re-engined MAX variants—and received 912 net orders, valued at nearly $135 billion at list prices.
Jan 09, 2018
CFM International has finalized an agreement with China’s LCC Spring Airlines for the purchase of 120 LEAP-1A engines to power its 60 Airbus A320neo aircraft.
Jan 09, 2018
Airbus has rolled out the first structurally complete airframe for its new BelugaXL transporter from its assembly hangar in Toulouse, France.
Jan 09, 2018
Chinese carriers introduced 424 aircraft—407 passenger aircraft and 17 freighters—in 2017, expanding their total fleet to 3,261 aircraft (3,118 passenger aircraft and 143 freighters) at year-end.
Jan 09, 2018
On Jan. 8, Boeing announced a Turkish Airlines order for three more 777 freighters the carrier placed in December 2017.
Jan 09, 2018
Visitors to Bell Helicopter’s booth at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas will get a taste of flying in an air taxi.
