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Emirates signs deal for 40 A330-900s, 30 A350-900s and Airbus will close its A380 programme

Airbus and Emirates reach agreement on A380 contract – with the airline to receive 14 more A380s by end 2021, bringing its total A380 order book to 123 units. With this decision Airbus will close its A380 prog... Read More...

boeing PAV - Autonomous Passenger Air Vehicle

Boeing: completed the first flight of autonomous PAV – Passenger Air Vehicle

Boeing successfully completed the first test flight of its autonomous passenger air vehicle (PAV) prototype in Manassas, Virginia. Boeing NeXt, which leads the company's urban air mobility efforts, utilized Boe... Read More...

Emirates Airbus A380 aircraft at its hub at Dubai International Airport

Emirates announces network updates for 2019

Emirates has announced adjustments to its operational schedules in 2019 to minimise the impact of the closure of Dubai International Airport’s Southern Runway in April and May 2019, and to respond to global tra... Read More...

First A380 All Nippon Airways rolls out in special livery

First All Nippon Airways Airbus A380 rolls out from paint shop with unique special livery

The first A380 for All Nippon Airways (ANA) has rolled out of the Airbus paint shop in Hamburg, Germany, bearing the airline’s distinctive and unique Hawaiian green sea turtle livery. ANA has firm orders for... Read More...

Boeing delivers the 787th B787 Dreamliner

Delivered the 787th B787 Dreamliner

Special milestone airplane to be operated by China Southern Airlines

Yesterday December 13 2018 Boeing delivered the 787th 787 Dreamliner to come off the production line, marking a special milestone for the super-efficient airplane family and the fastest-selling twin-aisle jet i... Read More...

Qatar sells the world’s largest private plane, a Boeing 747

Qatar Amiri Flight, an airline owned and operated by Qatar government, put one of two 747-8i Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) aircraft on sale. Today this aircraft is known as the largest private aircraft in the world... Read More...

Tecnam P2010 validated in Australia and New Zealand

Tecnam announced that the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority and the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand have validated the Tecnam P2010 four-seater based on the EASA type certificate A.576, includi... Read More...

Tecnam, BRP-Rotax and Siemens team up for hybrid propulsion for general aviation

The Project selected for Horizon2020 had a Successful Kick-Off Meeting

Last May 17th, 2018 H3PS(acronym for “High Power High Scalability Aircraft Hybrid Powertrain”) kick-off meeting took place in Capua (Italy), at TECNAM headquarters, coordinator of the project. The European Comm... Read More...

PC-24 Super Versatile Jet to Authorized Pilatus Center Western Aircraft Delivered

The Authorized Pilatus Sales and Service Center Western Aircraft, a Greenwich AeroGroup Company, took delivery of the first PC-24 Super Versatile Jet to the Pilatus dealer network. In a ceremony at Pilatus B... Read More...

Singapore Airlines takes delivery of world’s first Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner

26 March 2018 - Singapore Airlines (SIA) has taken delivery of its first Boeing 787-10 from the manufacturer’s production facility in North Charleston, South Carolina. SIA is the world’s first airline to take d... Read More...

10th anniversary of first A380 flight to London Heathrow

More than 200 million passengers have enjoyed the A380 experience

Airbus and Heathrow airport are celebrating the 10th anniversary of A380 operations at the airport. They began on March 18th, 2008 with the arrival of the first A380, a Singapore Airlines flight SQ308 from Sing... Read More...

Boeing 737 MAX 7 First Flight

Boeing's new 737 MAX 7 successfully completed its first flight. The aircraft remains on schedule and now begins a comprehensive flight test program leading to certification and delivery in 2019. "Everything ... Read More...

Turkish Airlines expands its fleet with the Airbus A350 XWB and the Boeing B-787 Dreamliner

Turkish Airlines, the carrier based in Istanbul, has signed on March 9 a Letter of Intent (MoU - Memorandum of Understanding) for the purchase of 25 Airbus A350-900 aircraft plus five options and on March 12 an... Read More...

Cobham Helicopter Services announces launch customer

Chinese Rescue and Salvage announced as launch customer at the Cobham Helicopter Academy

Cobham announced China Rescue and Salvage (CRS) as the launch customer for the new Cobham Helicopter Academy based at Newquay Cornwall Airport, Cornwall. China Rescue and Salvage is China’s dedicated national m... Read More...

Meridiana launches new look Air Italy

Ambitious business plans aim to take Air Italy to 10 million passengers by 2022. Air Italy will provide travellers with an innovative, sophisticated and stylish carrier, offering an enhanced travel experience. ... Read More...

Leonardo: Japan first maintenance, repair and overhaul center for helicopters

Leonardo and Shizuoka Air Commuter Corporation (SACC) of Japan announced the signing of a Service Centre Agreement to set up helicopter MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) capabilities in Mt. Fuji Shizuoka A... Read More...

A350-1000 begins demonstration tour in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific

The A350-1000, the newest member of Airbus’ leading widebody family, has embarked on a three-week demonstration tour to the Middle East and Asia-Pacific region. The demonstration tour follows the completion ... Read More...

Boeing Sets Airplane Delivery Record, Finishes 2017 with Larger Order Book

Boeing delivered more commercial airplanes than any manufacturer for the sixth consecutive year and set an industry record with 763 deliveries in 2017, driven by high output of the market-leading 737 and 787 je... Read More...

Airbus Commercial Aircraft delivers record performance

Airbus’ Commercial Aircraft deliveries in 2017 were up for the 15th year in a row, reaching a new company record of 718 aircraft delivered to 85 customers. Deliveries were more than four percent higher than the... Read More...

First Airbus BelugaXL transporter rolls off assembly line

This next-generation super transporter is one of the largest aircraft in existence, it will fly in 2018

The first structurally complete airframe for the new BelugaXL rolled out from its assembly hangar in Toulouse, France this month. Once operational, a fleet of these next-generation airlifters will be used t... Read More...