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News and developments about airplanes, helicopters and unmanned air vehicles used in all varieties of operations, including airlines, military, business, commercial, general aviation and private.
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Eurofighter working on E-scan radar, support
Eurofighter hopes that the four partner nations will agree the technical specification for an active array radar for the Typhoon by year-end.
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Saudi Arabia Joins the Sniper Family
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control has announced that it is to supply the Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod to the Royal Saudi Air Force.
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Premium Aerotec To Build Part of A350 Fuselage
German aerostructures specialist Premium Aerotec (Hall 1 Stand E197) has signed a contract with Airbus to provide the fuselage structure for the European m
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Civilians can check out this Mirage themselves
“Une fois Mirage, toujours Mirage!” insists Thierry Goetschmann.
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Airbus orders still flow, but now just a trickle
Cooling down somewhat from a red-hot commercial start at this year’s Paris Air Show, Airbus yesterday won a pair of modest but significant firm orders–one
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Boeing joins sales parade
Boeing joined in the sales action yesterday at the Paris Air Show when MC Aviation Partners (MCAP), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corp., finalize
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Flying the Airbus A380
Airbus engineers are never satisfied, and customers of the European airframe builder should have only one response: thank goodness.
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Paris'09 News Clips
GPS Location Downlink Completes Testing
AeroMechanical Services has completed testing of an upgrade to its automated flight information reporti
AeroMechanical Services has completed testing of an upgrade to its automated flight information reporti
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Lynx goes wild as first flight approaches
After a difficult period in which the whole program’s future lay in doubt, AgustaWestland’s Future Lynx has emerged with a new name–AW159 Lynx Wildcat–and
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Ilyushin Finance inks $1.2B lease deal for An-148s, Tu-204s
Leasing company Ilyushin Finance yesterday did a deal to supply up to 45 airliners to Russian airline Atlant-Soyuz.
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MIG Aviation Opts for Eight Q400 T-Props
Bombardier Aerospace announced that MIG Aviation 3 Limited, subsidiary of Greece’s Marfin Investment Group Holdings., has signed a firm order for eight Q40
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GP7200 to power Air Austral’s Airbus A380s
Air Austral selected the Engine Alliance GP7200 to power the pair of Airbus A380s it has ordered.
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Air Maroc, Air France in MRO deal
Royal Air Maroc (RAM) and Air France Industries yesterday signed a shareholder agreement to create a joint-venture MRO facility at Casablanca Mohammed V In
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Finns receive upgraded Hawk
On Tuesday Patria handed over the first serial production upgraded Hawk trainer to the Finnish air force here at the Paris Air Show.
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HAROP loiters with intent
One of the more unusual debutants at this year’s airshow is Israel Aerospace Industries’ HAROP loitering munition.
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Partners brace to bite bullet on A400M costs
Airbus has presented “a realistic development and production schedule” to the A400M partner nations, CEO Tom Enders said here in Paris on Tuesday.
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Boeing IDS on schedule with P-8 Poseidon naval patroller
With the recent handover flights from the commercial factory to Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) in Seattle, the P-8A Poseidon next-generation marit
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More A330/340 upgrades coming
Orders for more than 1,400 A330s and A340s has been the Airbus reward for 15 years of continuous innovation, including the introduction of A340-600-technol
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Alenia Aeronautica awaits imminent B787 first flight
Alenia Aeronautica is one of three companies within the Italian Finmeccanica group that deal with fixed-wing aircraft production.
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Ruag’s new-generation Do 228 on track for 2010 deliveries
Ruag Aerospace, the Swiss company that now holds the type and production certificates for the Dornier 228 NG, recently held its third operators’ conference
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Gulfstream G250 Edges Toward First Flight
The first Gulfstream G250 super midsize business jet had its Honeywell HTF7250G engines mounted on June 1 at Israel Aerospace Industries’ factory near Tel
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Next-phase Osprey Support Contract Awarded
Bell Boeing has just received a new contract to add to its existing support contract for the V-22 Ospreys operated by the U.S.
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Parker Hannifin Scores A350XWB Work
Parker Hannifin has signed two agreements with major aerospace companies, which could net the company some $7.5 billion over the life of the programs.
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ATR soaring as orders gush in; $300M in sales in first two days
Franco-Italian regional turboprop maker ATR continued to defy predictions for a tepid sales showing at Le Bourget yesterday when it inked a purchase contra
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Spectrum Aero Unveils First S.40 Fuselage
Spectrum Aeronautical sister company Rocky Mountain Composites has completed a test article version of the all-composite S.40 Freedom midsize jet fuselage
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Engine Choice Still Up in the Air for Falcon SMS
Dassault Aviation CEO Charles Edelstenne on Friday made it clear that all design choices for its next Falcon business jet, a super-midsize aircraft codenam
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Avialeasing firms order for 24 Superjets
Russian aircraft lessor Avialeasing yesterday converted a letter of intent for 24 Sukhoi Superjet 100 regional airliners signed at last July’s Farnborough
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Qatar could scrap 787 orders as Al Baker berates Boeing
Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker is threatening to pull the plug on a contract for up to 60 Boeing 787s due to what appear to be serious objections to the
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Israel F-35 Sale Might Drive Down Export Prices
Israel intends to order 25 Lockheed Martin F-35 fifth-generation fighters, with an option for 50 more.
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New Asian deals get show orders rolling yet again
AirAsiaX has placed firm orders for 10 Airbus A350-900 airliners.
