Content Archive: January 2007

Air Canada picks Bombardier and Embraer

Bankrupt Air Canada last month signed a pair of MOUs that call for a split order for 90 airplanes from Bombardier of Canada and Embraer of Brazil.
ATC

ATC’s playbook for Super Bowl game

A Super Bowl Special Traffic Management Program (STMP) for the Houston area will be in effect January 28 through February 3, requiring all non-airline oper
Aircraft

Last Avro RJ to the Finnish line

BAE Systems Regional Aircraft has delivered the final Avro RJ to Finnish carrier Blue 1, bringing to an end 22 years of BAe 146/Avro RJ production.
Aircraft

Crisis in Kiev can’t ground An-148

Although the political crisis in Ukraine kept Antonov engineers guessing about the timing of the first flight of the 52-seat An-148, the airplane took to t
Aircraft

ARJ21 structural design nearly done

China’s AVIC I Commercial Aircraft (ACAC) continues its march toward a 2008 introduction of the 85-seat ARJ21-700, finishing more or less on schedule some
Aircraft

Stage III gets GIISP hush kit approval

Stage III Technologies, which has been developing a Stage 3 hush kit for Gulfstream IIs and IIIs for more than five years, has received an STC for the Gulf

Business booming in China

Regional traffic throughout China has increased significantly since 2000, the year the country saw the introduction of the first Western regional jet into
Aircraft

US Airways wins RJ reprieve

US Airways may resume taking deliveries of Embraer and Bombardier regional jets if the airline’s employee unions accept more cost-cutting measures, thanks
Aircraft

Hong Kong start-up to take 170s

A newly formed regional airline division of Hong Kong commuter helicopter operator Helicopters Hong Kong has signed a deal with GE Capital Aviation Service
Rotorcraft

Bell studies new tail-rotor concept

The head of Bell’s new X-Worx center in Arlington, Texas, told AIN that his team is working on a new type of anti-torque device that is “unlike anything yo