Content Archive: June 2007

Aircraft

Lion Air Is THE Customer for Earlier 737-900 order

Jakarta-based Lion Air is the previously unnamed customer for a listed order for 40 Boeing 737-900ER airliners–nominally valued at more than $3 billion–tha

Airbus sales boost confidence

Airbus looked intent on making up for two years of persistent hits to its credibility virtually all at once yesterday with a nearly uninterrupted string of
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P&W, Honeywell team on engine for Army helos

Pratt & Whitney and Honeywell announced yesterday here at Le Bourget that they have agreed to work together to develop a new, 3,000-shp turboshaft engine f
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Bombardier will invest in China’s AVIC

The relationship between the world’s third-largest aircraft maker and China grew closer with the announcement here yesterday of a long-term investment comm
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French Tigers to get Hellfire II

France is buying the Lockheed Martin Hellfire II missile system to give its 40 Tiger HAD (Hélicoptère d’Appui Destruction) helicopters a versatile precisio

Esterline buys into integration

Esterline Corporation’s $335 million acquisition of Canada’s CMC Aerospace three months ago has in no small part played a role in the company’s record stoc

Turbomeca pockets three support-by-the-hour pacts

Here at the Paris Air Show, helicopter engine manufacturer Turbomeca announced three contracts for its support-by-the-hour (SBH) scheme.Austral
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Airbus offers frax ownership of A400M airlifter to NATO

Airbus Military is offering to supply some A400M tactical airlifters to NATO on a “fractional ownership” basis.
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Irkut sends first two Flankers to Malaysia

The Irkut aviation plant on Sunday delivered the first two Su-30MKM multirole fighters to Malaysia, where they will be reassembled.