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Aircraft Brokers Group Seeks Accreditation Applications

The International Aircraft Dealers Association also launched its new AircraftExchange website this week.

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February 5, 2019

Germania Halts Operations and Files for Insolvency

The Berlin-based airline is the latest on a growing list of recent airline failures in Europe.

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February 5, 2019

Boeing Partners with Aerion, Bets Big on Supersonics

Boeing today announced a partnership with Aerion Corp. and further made a “significant,” but undisclosed, investment in the supersonic bizjet developer.

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February 5, 2019

Moscow Commits To Reviving Cubana Fleet

The Kremlin agrees to provide most of the funding to resuscitate Cuba’s airliners.

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February 4, 2019

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An-124 Ruslan Replacement Takes Shape

Russia's TsAGI has revealed more details of the Slon, a program to provide a potential successor to the An-124 heavy airlifter.

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February 4, 2019

M600 Utilization Prompts Piper To Up Warranty Hours

The aircraft rolled out in 2015 with an original five-year/1,000-hour warranty, but now has a five-year/1,500-hour warranty timeframe.

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February 4, 2019

Stellar, Collins Chart Progress on Next-gen Flight Ops

Stellar and Collins roll out flight planning tool, prepare for launch of scheduling tool.

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January 31, 2019

End of the Line for the Fleet’s Legacy Hornets

After 35 years of service, the "Legacy" Hornet is bowing out of the U.S. Navy's active-duty fleet as VFA-34 begns its conversion to the Super Hornet

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January 31, 2019

ZenithJet Takes Bow for First Global 7500 Completion

The completed aircraft will now go on a demo tour beginning this weekend.

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January 31, 2019

ATR Surveys Growth Prospects in U.S. and China

The Franco-Italian airframer sees a bright future for turboprops, as it finalizes STOL and pure freighter variants.

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January 31, 2019

Airbus in A380 Talks with Emirates

The European airframer confirms reports of negotiations but declines to get specific.

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January 31, 2019

G500 Deliveries Put Gulfstream Over the Top in 2018

Gulfstream delivered 121 business jets last year, one more than in 2017, with the mix favoring large-cabin jets, at 92, up two from a year earlier.

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January 30, 2019

Boeing Dispatches Team to CFM to Speed 737 Recovery

Leap-1B supply deficit continues to hamper Max ramp-up effort.

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January 30, 2019

Mitsubishi Countersues Bombardier in Trade Secrets Spat

U.S. subsidiary Mitsubishi Aircraft America claims Bombardier engaged in “anticompetitive behavior.”

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January 29, 2019

Optimism Follows Bumper Year for Preowned Bizjets

CJI event reflects very strong 2018 in pre-owned sales, with 2019 likely to continue the trend.

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January 29, 2019

Kremlin Boosts Funding for MC-21

Western sanctions help drive up costs of the Irkutsk-built narrowbody program to more than triple its original estimate.

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January 29, 2019

Learjet Fleet Tops 25 Million Hours with New Intervals

Bombardier extended the maintenance intervals for the powerplants of the Learjet 70 and 75 by 500 hours to 3,500 hours.

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January 29, 2019

A330-900 Certified for ‘Beyond 180-minutes’ ETOPS

The first of two A330neo models can fly routes with a diversion distance of some 2,000 nm.

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January 28, 2019

Aviaa Expands European Footprint with Convolus Merger

The combination gives Aviaa access to a European FBO network comprising Dassault Falcon Service, ExecuJet and Jet Aviation.

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January 28, 2019

Global 7500 To Make Touchdown at PDK for Super Bowl

Bombardier Business Aircraft is using the Super Bowl in Atlanta to kick off a world tour of its flagship Global 7500.

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January 28, 2019