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Engines
Boeing Plans another 777 Rate Hike
Boeing plans to raise its production rate for the 777 program to 8.3 airplanes per month, or 100 airplanes a year, starting in the first quarter of 2013, t
Hawker Beechcraft: survival of the fighters
Bill Boisture is embroiled in the challenge of his career.
Rotorcraft
Proposed Rules Challenged by Norwood Helo Ops
Norwood Memorial Airport (Mass.) manager Russ Maguire has proposed
Security
Bombardier Fined $319,000 for Denial of Pilot Training
The Quebec Human Rights Tribunal has ordered Bombardier to pay a Pakistani-born Canadian citizen more than $319,000 for denying him Challenger 604 flight t
Patent Causing Turbulence at Online Flight Planners
Online flight-planning provider RunwayFinder shut down on Monday in the wake of a patent lawsuit filed by Aurora, Ore.-based FlightPrep.
Aircraft
Japan Replaces UH-60Js...with More UH-60Js
Japan’s Ministry of Defense has selected Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to supply 40 license-built Sikorsky UH-60J+ helicopters for the Japan Air Self Defence
Aircraft
Unmanned Helos Make Rapid Progress in the U.S.
Remotely controlled helicopters could be delivering cargo to U.S.
Aircraft
F135 Engine Progresses as F136 Alternative for F-35
Pratt & Whitney has delivered the first F135 production-standard STOVL engine to Lockheed Martin for the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter program.
Aircraft
Ceremony Marks UK Retirement of Harriers
Sixteen Harrier GR.7/9 V/STOL (vertical and/or short take-off and landing) jets flew over the UK Midlands Wednesday to mark the type’s retirement from Brit
Maintenance and Modifications
ATI Offers JT15D Mobile Response Team
Aviation Turbines International of O’Fallon, Mo., is offering a mobile response team to serve i
Maintenance and Modifications
Elliott Adds ANAC Approval for King Air TCAS 4000
Brazil’s Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (ANAC) has awarded Elliott Aviation an STC for the i
Maintenance and Modifications
CRS Jet Spares Shows Sales Up for Last Quarter
“We are grateful to announce that, for the first time since the international economic downturn
Maintenance and Modifications
Jet Aviation Opens New Jeddah Facility
Jet Aviation is scheduled to move into a new FBO facility in Jeddah by the end of the month.
Maintenance and Modifications
DAE Puts StandardAero Up For Sale
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) is accepting offers “for part or all of StandardAero,” accordi
Aircraft
Southwest Lays Plans for Larger 737s
Southwest Airlines expects to take delivery of its first Boeing 737-800 in March 2012, the company’s chairman, president and CEO, Gary Kelly, revealed duri
Security
Dorgan Urges Hearings on Aircraft Registration
Reacting to news reports that the FAA has missing data on nearly 120,000 of the nation’s 357,00
Regulations and Government
Carson Crash Triggers Criminal Probe
The August 2008 fatal crash of a Carson Helicopters Sikorsky S-61
Maintenance and Modifications
DAE Puts StandardAero on the Block
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) is accepting offers “for part or all of StandardAero,” according to a Reuters report last Friday.
Bipartisan Tax Bill Would Benefit New Aircraft Buyers
The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010, which could be passed in the U.S.
Used Bizjet Inventory Still Falling, but Demand Anemic
According to the latest data from JPMorgan Research, pre-owned business jet inventories fell last month, reversing a three-month upward trend, though deman
Airbus Raises Expectations in Latest Forecast
Airbus now projects that the airline industry will need almost 26,000 new passenger and freighter aircraft valued at $3.2 trillion between 2010 and 2029, a
Search for Doomed Air France Airbus A330 to Resume
The effort to find out what happened to Air France Flight 447 on June 1, 2009 seemed all but over in France, when the government announced the launch of a
Industry Awaits Word on Seventh 787 Delay
Boeing’s conclusion that a short circuit or electrical arc caused by foreign debris in a P100 power distribution panel led to the November 9 fire aboard th
Cost of Qantas A380 Groundings Mounts
Some five weeks after an uncontained engine failure forced one of Qantas’s six Rolls-Royce Trent 900-powered A380s to make an emergency landing at Singapor
French Court “Criminalizes” Concorde Accident
Unfazed by pressure from various aviation alphabet groups concerned about the “criminalization” of aircraft accidents, a French court this week found a Con
Airbus Raises Stakes with Launch of A320neo
Airbus’s launch last week of a new engine option for its A320 single-aisle series has for the moment turned the proverbial spotlight directly on rival Boei
Rotorcraft
Russian Medium Twin Helo Program Resumes
Russian Helicopters (RH) said its second prototype of the Mi-38 medium twin started flight test
