Aircraft & Engines

StandardAero and Banyan Air Service have signed a support center agreement, authorizing Banyan as a StandardAero-approved installation facility for the Cessna Caravan 208-series aircraft engine-upgrade program. This engine-upgrade program replaces the PT6A-114 (600 shp)/114A (675 shp) powerplants with the PT6A-135A (750 shp) powerplant. Providing an alternative to traditional overhaul, the new engine provides an increase

British Airways is to sell 11 of its 15 Boeing 757 aircraft for cargo conversion. The aircraft leaving the airline’s mainline fleet between 2010-2012. Four Boeing 757s operated by the airline’s subsidiary OpenSkies will remain in the fleet. The Boeing 757s will be replaced in the airline’s shorthaul fleet by Airbus A320 family aircraft. Robert

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Embraer moves steadily forward in its Phenom 300 light jet program, with the first flight of the fourth test aircraft at the end of February 2009. This jet, with registration number PP-XVL, and the third (PP-XVK), which first flew on December 23, 2008, are being operated from the Company

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Lease Corporation International Aviation (New Buildings) Limited has signed a firm purchase agreement for three CS100 and 17 CS300 jetliners. The purchaser, which also took options on a further 20 CSeries aircraft, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lease Corporation International Limited (LCI). LCI is a privately owned aircraft leasing company that owns and leases

EADS confirms that it remains fully committed to the construction of the A400M that will be the most complete high performance military plane for the coming decades. The group reaffirms that the contract signed in 2003 does not provide the necessary conditions for the successful development of the programme, firstly because of an unrealistic timetable,

The new GEnx-2B jet engine for Boeing’s new 747-8 aircraft has begun flight-testing on GE Aviation’s 747 flying test-bed. During the five-hour first flight on March 23rd, a single GEnx-2B engine demonstrated aircraft systems and instrumentation functionality, climbing close to 40,000 feet and establishing engine performance baseline. About 40 flights with the engine are planned

Finnair has taken delivery of its first A330-300. The new aircraft is the first of eight A330-300s ordered by Finnair for the development of its medium and long haul operation. Powered by General Electric CF6-80E1 engines, the carrier’s new A330 can seat 271 passengers in a two-class cabin (229 seats in Economy and 42 in

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