Aircraft lessor BOC Aviation is aiming at a steadily slowing growth rate after tripling in size since its acquisition by the Bank of China in 2006. The Singapore-based company’s assets have grown from about $3 billion then to $10 billion now. BOC was largely unaffected by the global financial crisis because a year before the 2008 credit crunch its new owner allocated it capital for growth. The bank, as a Chinese state financial institution, did not need to pull back on its plans while U.S. and European financial companies struggled.

BEIJING — South Korea plans to introduce more than 20 former U.S. Navy S-3 Vikings into service in 2018-20 as second-tier maritime patrollers, apparently in response to the loss of a warship to a North Korean submarine attack three years ago.

BEIJING — Avic Engine, well into development of a technically conservative high-bypass turbofan, is pushing to replace affiliate ACAE as the supplier of a Chinese engine for the Comac C919 airliner. In doing so, Avic Engine, the main propulsion subsidiary of state aeronautics group Avic, is offering a more dependable and realistic way for China to accumulate early experience in developing and building commercial aircraft engines.