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GKN Transfer Completes Airbus Restructuring, For Now

GKN Aerospace assumed full ownership of the former Airbus wing component and assemblies factory at Filton, UK, on January 5.

January 30, 2009

Boeing Tallies Strike Losses, 747-8 Effect

Boeing estimates that the two-month strike staged by its machinists late last year cost it some $2.5 billion in cash–the single biggest factor in the fourt

January 30, 2009

Airbus Breaks Ground on A350 Line, Pledges mid-2013 First Delivery

Having badly burned its fingers with production delays on the A380 program, Airbus is determined not to fall into the fire again with its next large airlin

January 30, 2009

Airbus Signs Major Partnership Deal with Chinese

Airbus and a group of Chinese industrial partners today signed a contract to establish a joint-venture manufacturing center in Harbin, China, to build comp

January 30, 2009

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Boeing Resumes 787 Production

Boeing resumed production of 787 Dreamliners yesterday as it joined the major assemblies of the fifth airplane designated for flight test, the company anno

January 30, 2009

AIA: 2008 could prove a record year for the aerospace industry2

Despite the worldwide economic maelstrom, total sales for the U.S.

January 29, 2009

EC plan would shift money from navaids to avionics

Eurocontrol might ask the European Commission to use some of the money expected to be saved by the planned decommissioning of VOR and NDB beacons to sponso

January 29, 2009

Embraer braces for ‘challenging’ 2009

Embraer delivered a record 204 airplanes last year, including 162 jets in the regional/commercial sector, leaving the company on what it hopes proves firm

January 29, 2009

Horizon Settles On Q400 Deferrals

Horizon Air has negotiated a deferral of Q400 deliveries with Bombardier to re-time the shipments to coincide with the removal of the Seattle-based regiona

January 29, 2009

Second SSJ Takes Flight

The second of four planned Sukhoi SSJ100 prototypes–S/N 95003–took to the skies on December 24, joining the flight-test program started in May with the fir

January 29, 2009

Great Lakes Boosts EAS

Cheyenne, Wyo.-based Great Lakes Aviation announced it would launch EAS routes to four Montana destinations from Billings on February 1, marking an end to

January 29, 2009

ASA To Furlough 80 Pilots

Atlantic Southeast Airlines sent furlough notices to 80 pilots last month as partner Delta Air Lines pares back Bombardier CRJ flying.

January 29, 2009

Boeing Posts Fourth-quarter Loss, Plans Flat Production Rates in 2009

Boeing posted a company-wide fourth-quarter loss of $56 million, resulting mainly from its two-month-long machinists strike and a charge related to the del

January 28, 2009

Boeing Commercial To Lay off 4,500

Boeing last month said it plans to slash employment at its Commercial Airplanes business by some 4,500 positions this year “as part of an effort to ensure

January 27, 2009

ATR 42 Cargo Plane Crashes in Lubbock

An ATR 42 cargo airplane operated by Empire Airlines for FedEx ran off the runway early this morning at Preston Smith International Airport in Lubbock, Tex

January 27, 2009

DGAC tests satnav route for helo air ambulance service

French civil aviation authority DGAC, Eurocopter and the French association of EMS doctors (AFHSH) late last year tested a satnav IFR route between two hos

January 27, 2009

Mitsubishi chooses AIDC as MRJ supplier

Taiwan’s Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) has agreed to design and build the slats, flaps, belly fairings, rudders and elevators for Mit

January 22, 2009

406-MHz ELT Requirement Starts Next Month

The FAA Safety Team yesterday issued a notice to remind aircraft operators that satellite monitoring of 121.5-MHz emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) wil

January 22, 2009

Arbitrator Rules against Midwest Airlines Pilots

A labor arbitrator rejected a grievance filed by the ALPA-represented pilots of Midwest Airlines challenging the Milwaukee-based carrier’s decision to repl

January 22, 2009

Pilot Strike Disrupts Lufthansa Regional Network

Most of the 125 pilots of the German regional airline Con-tact Air went on a limited strike today, disrupting parts of the Luf-thansa Regional European net

January 21, 2009

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