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Temporary Exemption Clears Hurdle for Longitude FAA Nod

The FAA and Textron had different interpretations on fuel tank designs, resulting in a need for short-term relief from applicable standards.

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August 28, 2018

UBS: Bombardier To Reclaim Large Bizjet Market Share

Share could potentially exceed 40 percent in both units and value by 2020 as Bombardier delivers its new Globals to customers.

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August 28, 2018

KLM Delays First A350 Deliveries to 2021

Air France-KLM has a firm order for 28 of the Airbus twinjets

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August 28, 2018

UK Aerospace Threatened Even as Aircraft Deliveries Set Record

Industry Group ADS warns again of negative effect of no-deal Brexit

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August 28, 2018

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Su-57 and MiG-35 Land Russian Orders During Army 2018

At the major Russian arms gathering the defense ministry announced the first orders for production examples of the Su-57 and MiG-35

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August 27, 2018

Pilot Report: Gulfstream G500

Gulfstream engineers have designed an airplane that pilots will love and that maximizes comfort for passengers

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August 24, 2018

Helpful Airline Facilitates Eclipse Image

A carefully planned flight on Southwest Airlines helped artist Jon Carmichael create a unique photomosaic of last year's solar eclipse.

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August 24, 2018

FlyWatch Global Offers PC-12 Training and Dry Leases

PC-12s on dry leases for private hire could spell a new avenue for cost effective transport around Europe, pioneered from London-area airports.

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August 23, 2018

Japan Receives New 'Air Force One'

Japan's Boeing 747s have flown the country's prime ministers around the world for 27 years. Now they are being replaced by Boeing 777s

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August 22, 2018

Water System Supplier Receives Gulfstream Award

For the third year in a row Canada-based International Water-Guard Industries was named as the airfamer's supplier of the year.

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August 22, 2018

Epps Delivers U.S. Southeast's First Pilatus PC-24

The customer is Louisiana's Cajun Industries, which values the new light jet's short field performance.

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August 22, 2018

Ukraine Upgrades MiG-29 Fleet

Ukriane has instigated a program to upgrade its tactical aircraft fleet, drawing on its defense induatry with assistance from outside avionics suppliers

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August 21, 2018

ExecuJet To Welcome First Africa-based PC-24 in October

Pilatus jet will be based at South Africa's Cape Town International Airport and managed and operated day-to-day by the Luxaviation Group subsidiary.

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August 21, 2018

Nearing FAA Nod, G600 Starts Field-performance Tests

To date, five flight-test G600s have accumulated some 2,290 flight hours over more than 600 flights.

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August 21, 2018

A380 Dismantling Should Yield Positive Returns, Says Scope

Ex-Singapore Airlines A380-800 first of the type to be sold as spare parts

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August 21, 2018

Ethiopian Defers A220 Decision Following Airbus Acquisition

Africa’s largest airline now considering extending the mission profile of its Boeing 737 Max 8s

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August 20, 2018

Brian Barents To Retire as Exec Chair of Aerion

Tom Vice will take responsibility for leadership of the company as CEO and president.

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August 17, 2018

Upgraded 'Backfire' Rolled Out at Kazan

Tupolev has engineered a major modernization of the Tu-22M3 strategic bomber, the first trials example of which has been unviled at the KAPO works

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August 17, 2018

New Wings for the Blue Angels

Having flown the "legacy" Hornet since 1986, the U.S. Navy's elite Naval Flight Demonstration Squadron is going to convert to the Super Hornet

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August 16, 2018

Charter Expo To Take Place Again at Biggin Hill

The Air Charter Expo is fast becoming one of the key business aviation events in Europe, believe its organizers.

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August 16, 2018