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Airlines

Bombardier Announces Firm Order for 10 CRJ900s

The Canadian manufacturer reports 428 firm orders for the 90-seat CRJ900 regional airliner.
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Aircraft

Boeing Restores 30 F/A-18C+ Models for Marine Corps

Retired F/A-18s recovered from the aircraft 'boneyard' at Davis-Monthan AFB will be returned to service with the U.S. Marine Corps.
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Rotorcraft

Boeing Readies First AH-6i for Delivery to Saudi Arabia

Boeing is supplying the light attack helicopter to the Saudi Arabia National Guard under a 2014 foreign military sale.
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Aircraft

Lockheed Martin Advances F-35’s Maintenance Backbone

Release of the third development version of the Autonomic Logistics Information System will coincide with the end of the F-35 development phase.
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Rotorcraft

Croatia, Tunisia First To Receive U.S. Kiowa Warriors

The U.S. Army is divesting 340 Bell OH-58D Kiowa Warriors as a consequence of its 2013 Aviation Restructure Initiative.
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Aircraft

First T-50A Jet Trainer Makes Maiden Flight

Lockheed Martin is proposing the variant of the Korea Aerospace Industries T-50 Golden Eagle for the U.S. Air Force's T-X trainer requirement.
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Avionics

JetBlue To Equip Airbus Fleet for Space-based ADS-B

The airline will install ADS-B Out and space-based ADS-B capability during cabin interior modifications beginning in August.
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

FAA Steps Up Research of Drone Countermeasures

The agency has signed cooperative research and development agreements to test counter-drone systems from several companies at selected airports.
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Aircraft

U.S. Air Force, Boeing Extend KC-46A Deliveries Schedule

Technical issues with the refueling boom and drogue systems have caused the service to postpone its Milestone C production decision to August.
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

AeroVironment Unveils Tethered and Sub-Launched Drones

The Pentagon is evaluating the 'Tether Eye' tethered drone to combat terrorism. The Navy will equip submarines with tube-launched 'Blackwing.'
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

U.S. Air Force Eyes Small UAS; Services Favor VTOL Capability

The Air Force will release a strategic plan for using smaller unmanned aircraft systems than it has traditionally operated.
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Amazon Principal Argues Case for 'Federated' ATC System

Amazon Prime Air's ambition is to deliver packages by small drones in an airspace system with multiple, overlapping controllers.
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

For Now, FAA Is Not Considering Airspace Changes for Drones

The low-altitude system NASA is developing through the UAS traffic management project will inform any airspace restructuring, the FAA says.
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Textron Systems Progresses With RQ-7B Shadow V2 Upgrade

Nearly all of the 117 Shadow systems operated by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps are under contract for the V2 upgrade, Textron Systems says.
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Airlines

Delta Renews Fleet With Major CSeries Order and A321 Top-up

The order is the largest in Bombardier Commercial Aircraft history and represents a 'major endorsement' of the challenged CSeries program.
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Airlines

Study: Finnair Has Lowest Carbon 'Footprint' But Industry Lags

Airlines have not made a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions over the past several years, University of Warwick study finds.
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Aircraft

Fourth and Final Aircraft Joins KC-46A Flight Test Program

The 767-2C baseline tanker will be used for environmental control system and smoke penetration testing, Boeing said.
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Engines

FAA Orders Fixes on GEnx-Equipped Boeing 787 Dreamliners

The airworthiness directive requires that airplanes with two GEnx-1B PIP2 engines have one fixed or replaced in 150 days.
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Aircraft

Airbus Delivers First A321 Airliner Assembled at U.S. Facility

The delivery to JetBlue came three years after the European manufacturer broke ground on the $600 million plant in Mobile, Alabama.
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

NASA, FAA Test Sites Conduct Largest Drone Management Test

All six FAA-sponsored unmanned aircraft system test ranges participated in the demonstration of NASA's UAS Traffic Management system.
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Aircraft

GAO Questions Deployability, Redundancy of F-35 ALIS System

The Autonomic Logistics Information System may not be fully ready as the F-35 reaches key milestones, says the Government Accountability Office.
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Airlines

U.S. Transportation Agency Favors Norwegian Air Carrier Permit

The Department of Transportation issued a show-cause finding that approves Norwegian Air International's application to fly to the U.S.
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Airlines

Eighty Percent of Airline Passengers are Satisfied, A4A Says

Price ranked highest in importance to 86 percent of the respondents to A4A's first 'Status of Air Travel' survey in nearly two decades.
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Avionics

U.S. Navy Awards Raytheon $1 Billion To Build Jammer Models

Raytheon will build 15 engineering development models and 14 mechanical test pods of the Next Generation Jammer, its new electronic warfare pod.
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Regulations and Government

U.S. Investments in Afghanistan Present a Muddled Picture

The Pentagon and the Drug Enforcement Administration spent $86 million over seven years to modify a counternarcotics plane that hasn't flown.
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Aircraft

Boeing Faces 'Challenging Road' to Delivering KC-46A Tanker

Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have revised the KC-46A program schedule to extend developmental flight testing, compress deliveries.
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Aircraft

Horizon Air To Acquire 30 Embraer E175s in Largest Fleet Order

The 76-seat jet and Horizon's current fleet of Bombardier Q400 turboprops will operate alongside each other 'for the foreseeable future.'
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Engines

GE Begins Ground Testing First Full GE9X Development Engine

Compared to other engine programs, the GE9X first engine to test milestone happened earlier in the development process, GE Aviation said.
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Aircraft

B-52 Arrives in Qatar; Supports Campaign Against Islamic State

The heavy bomber will be based in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility for the first time since 1991.
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Regulations and Government

World Military Spending Inches Up; Top Spenders Trade Places

Saudi Arabia overtook Russia as the third largest spender on military activities and equipment in 2015, following the U.S. and China.
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