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Engines

IAE celebrates 25 years in biz, braces for bumpy ride ahead

International Aero Engines comes to Farnborough celebrating the 25th anniversary of the landmark deal on March 11, 1983, between Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitn
Aircraft

Embraer bizjets take off while E-Jets flourish

Embraer is here at Farnborough exhibiting a Legacy 600 demonstrator and mock-ups of its new Phenom 300 and Lineage 1000 business jets.
Aircraft

Brazilian success story is deciphered

While other major manufacturers are struggling to find the right production organization or have spent years changing their minds about what product to lau
Aircraft

Saab 2000 AEW&C prepares for duty

On April 30, Saab achieved a significant milestone with the first flight of the Saab 2000 Erieye airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft, devel
Engines

GTF speeds toward date with the A340

Pratt & Whitney passes one of the most important milestones in its long history as the much-heralded Geared Turbofan engine takes to the skies this month.
FBOs

TAG Aviation gears up for Farnborough

Farnborough Airport may be packed with an odd assortment of aircraft for this week’s show, but ordinarily it is strictly business.
Aircraft

KnAAPO starts work on fifth-gen fighter

Sukhoi’s Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Industrial Association (KnAAPO) has started manufacturing the first development prototypes of an advanced fifth-genera
Aircraft

Superjet team optimistic despite delays

Sukhoi (Hall 1 Stand E9) has come to the Farnborough show elated at having begun flight trials for its Superjet 100 airliner.
Aircraft

Bombardier reacts to surging backlog

At the Finmeccanica exhibit here at Farnborough (Outside OE2) visitors once again can find Alenia Aermacchi’s M-346 lead-in fighter trainer.
Aircraft

Hamilton Sundstrand promises 787 vindication

Hamilton Sundstrand (Hall 4 Stand F13) has been on the frontline of the ongoing battle to get Boeing’s repeatedly delayed 787 airliner program back on trac
Aircraft

‘Overloaded’ Airbus promises A350XWB will hit its targets

Airbus insists the A350-800XWB will make it to market on time in 2013, despite the company’s failure to close on plant divestments that would have helped p
Aircraft

Plenty of life still left in fourth-generation Eagle

Boeing’s F-15 Eagle has racked up an enviable 104-0 combat record, as one of the world’s top-flight air-superiority and air-to-ground assault fighters.
Aircraft

Amid calls for collaboration, UCAV efforts split in three

While European governments preach greater collaboration in defense research and development, three competing programs for uninhabited combat air vehicles (
Aircraft

Skills shortage blamed for latest A380 setback

In commercial service for nearly nine months now, the Airbus A380 has proven itself perfectly capable of doing what its developers intended it to do–fly lo
Aircraft

58-Year-Old British Pilot Takes F-35B into the Air

Lockheed Martin realized there is no substitute for experience.
Aircraft

787 Horizontal Stabilizer Passes Fatigue Tests

Alenia Aeronautica has completed destructive testing on the horizontal stabilizer of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the companies announced today.
Aircraft

Cirrus Rolls Out ‘SJX’ Personal Jet

Duluth, Minn.-based Cirrus Design rolled out its single-engine jet prototype on Thursday, almost a year to the day after it unveiled a cabin mock-up to cus
Aircraft

PiperJet Poised To Start High-speed Taxi Tests

Piper Aircraft today said that the PiperJet proof of concept’s Williams FJ44-3AP engine was started and tested on June 19, describing the first on-ship run
Safety

Aeromed Helos Collide, No TCAS Aboard Either

The two aeromedical Bell 407s involved in a fatal midair over Flagstaff, Ariz., on Sunday afternoon were not equipped with traffic collision avoidance syst
Charter & Fractional

VistaJet Signs To Buy Bombardier Skyjet

Zurich, Switzerland-based VistaJet Holding today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Bombardier Aerospace’s Skyjet International
Aircraft

Cessna betting on a ‘sure thing’ with CJ3

Cessna Aircraft is living up to its marketing tag line “Sure Thing” with the introduction yesterday afternoon of the Citation CJ3.
Aircraft

Gulfstream adds a jet and refreshes it line

Gulfstream Aerospace is developing a derivative midsize business jet based on the former Astra SPX and–in a Herculean effort to transform its product line
Aircraft

Bombardier renames its latest, now known as Challenger 300

Among all the factors that influence a buyer’s decision to purchase one business jet over another, brand loyalty is well recognized as one of the strongest
Aircraft

Flush with fresh FAA certification, Legacy hopes for a hot U.S. market

With the ink still wet on its FAA certificate, the super-midsize Embraer Legacy flies above Florida’s intercoastal waterway en route to Orlando.
Avionics

Pro Line 21 scores in CJ3, G150

Rockwell Colllins emerged a winner yesterday with the announcement that the Cedar Rapids, Iowa company’s Pro Line 21 avionics system has been selected as s
Maintenance and Modifications

800SP sprouts blended winglets

After a successful flight program and anticipated certification, Aviation Partners Inc.
Aircraft

SJ30-2 takes a break from tests for NBAA

The Sino Swearingen SJ30-2 seven-place entry-level jet is making its debut here at NBAA ’02.
Avionics

Collins teams with Airbus in ACJ deal

Airbus has appointed Rockwell Collins as the avionics supplier of reference for its Airbus Corporate Jetliner (ACJ).
Charter & Fractional

Flight Options adds Citation X

Flight Options announced yesterday that it is adding the Cessna Citation X to its current stable of 10 aircraft models, with the first five aircraft becomi