Saab Brazilian Gripen E Completes its First Flight
Saab today completed a successful first flight with the first Brazilian Gripen E fighter aircraft, 39-6001. At 2.41 pm CET on August 26, the Gripen E aircraft took off on its maiden flight flown by…
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Collins Aerospace to Support F-35 and CH-47F Fleets for Royal Netherlands Air Force
Craig Bries, vice president and general manager, Avionics Service and Support for Collins Aerospace and Lieutenant General J.D. Luyt, Commander of the Royal Netherlands Air Force, commemorated the collaboration at a signing ceremony earlier this…
Textron Bell 407GXI Earns IFR Certification
FORT WORTH, Texas (15 August 2019) – Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the Bell…
BOC Aviation Expects Delivery Delay of up to 30 Jets
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Aircraft lessor BOC Aviation Ltd said on Tuesday it expected up to 30 Boeing Co <BA> and Airbus SE <EADSY> jets that had been scheduled to arrive this year could be delayed,…
Another Skydiving Accident Kills Nine in Sweden
Planned skydiving landing area marked by pin Just three weeks after a skydiving plane in Hawaii crashed on take-off killing all 11 aboard, nine people were killed in a Swedish skydiving accident on July 14,…
MDHI Features MD 530F at APSCON 2019
MD Helicopters, Inc. (MDHI) announces its participation in the 2019 Airborne Public Safety Aviation Convention (APSCON), July 17-19, 2019 at the CHI Health Center, Omaha, NE. The MDHI display will feature a company-owned MD 530F…
Ural Airlines Set to Receive First Boeing-737 MAX in December
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian airline Ural Airlines plans to receive the first of 14 previously ordered Boeing-737 MAX aircraft for leasing in December, Interfax news agency reported, citing its chief executive Sergei Skuratov. Two Boeing…
Textron Celebrates Delivery of 300th Cessna Citation CJ4
WICHITA, KS (June 27, 2019) – Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, celebrated its leadership of the light jet segment with the delivery of the 300th Cessna Citation CJ4, the industry's top performing…
Boeing to Work with Kitty Hawk on Flying Cars and Safety
Kitty Hawk,the flying car company backed by Google’s Larry Page and led by Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun, has struck a deal with aerospace giant Boeing. The terms of the strategic partnership are vague. But it…
Norwegian Air Expects 737 MAX Grounded Through August
FILE PHOTO: Bjoern Kjos, CEO of Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, attends a press conference presenting quarterly report of the company, in Oslo PARIS (Reuters) - Norwegian Air expects Boeing's 737 MAX aircraft to remain grounded…