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Korea Aerospace Industries Considering 90-Seat Turboprop

Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) could enter the regional turboprop segment as early as next year, if it proceeds with the launch of a 90-seat aircraft it

August 14, 2010

Qatar's C Series 'Issues' Hit Sour Note for Pratt

Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker's surprise revelation at the Farnborough airshow that "issues” with the Pratt & Whitney PW1000G geared turbo

August 13, 2010

McNerney: Boeing 747-8 at More Risk of Schedule Slippage than 787 Dreamliner

Citing “a couple of workmanship issues, and a design issue or two,” Boeing CEO Jim McNerney planted another seed of doubt about the company's chances of de

August 13, 2010

EADS Bullish on Airbus, Raises Order Projection to More Than 400

EADS has raised its order projection for its Airbus unit this year to more than 400 aircraft from its previous estimate of between 250 and 300 following a

August 13, 2010

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Case for 737 Re-engining Will Weaken if Airframe Advances Accelerate

A decision to re-engine the Boeing 737</link

August 13, 2010

New Leasing Group Fans Airliner Sales Activity

Airliner leasing pioneer Steven Udvar-Hazy is back in business with a vengeance.

August 13, 2010

Boeing Still Inspecting 787 Dreamliners for Workmanship ‘Issues’

Boeing hasn’t finished inspecting parts of the tail sections of flight-test and production 787 Dreamliners, several weeks after the Chicago-based aerospace

August 12, 2010

FAA Adopts ICAO’s ‘Line Up and Wait’ Terminology

Current FAA terminology for an air traffic controller’s instruction for a pilot to taxi onto the runway and await takeoff clearance is “position and hold.”

August 12, 2010

GAO, DOT IG Concerned about FAA's NextGen

Each key FAA NextGen project has an individual "metric" to measure how its development is progressing.

August 10, 2010

Cathay Pacific To Order 30 A350 XWBs, Convert Purchase Rights for Six Boeing 777-300ERs

Cathay Pacific Airways has signed a letter of intent with Airbus covering 30 <link news/single-news-page/article/airbus-keeps-a350xwb-on-the-787s-tail-2541

Trajectory-based ops pair new tech and flying basics

Now that we’ve all gotten accustomed to acronyms like Rnav, RNP, LPV and all the others, the next big game changer will be TBO, for trajectory-based operat

Operators skewer proposed Long Island VFR routing

Public comments about the FAA’s proposed mandatory helicopter routing over New York’s Long Island are overwhelmingly negative, according to the Eastern Reg

FAA says Gulf TFR working

Helicopter traffic in the Gulf of Mexico has nearly doubled, to nearly 2,000 flights per day, since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20.

Bagnato Replaces Mayer as ATR boss

ATR has chosen former company chief executive Filippo Bagnato to replace outgoing CEO Stephane Mayer, whose three-year mandate has expired in accordan

Lufthansa Orders Eight CRJ900s

Germany’s Deutsche Lufthansa has exercised purchase rights on eight Bombardier CRJ900 regional jets, the Canadian manufacturer announced last month.

Delta sells Mesaba, Compass subsidiaries

Delta Air Lines announced last month that it has entered into definitive agreements to sell two of its wholly owned regional airline subsidiaries–Minneapol

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Eagle’s latest batch of CRJ700s starts to arrive

American Eagle’s first shipment of new airplanes in some five years began last month as the Dallas-based regional airline took delivery of two new CRJ700s

CFM56-7BE Gains FAA, EASA Approval

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NextGen architects ponder security

Establishing stronger cyber security must become a top national imperative, according to industry and government cyber security specialists at a recent FAA

Comair Mechanics Pull Out of FAA Safety Program

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 142 today said it has withdrawn from the maintenance Aviation Safety Actio

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