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CSeries Takes Break From Flight Testing In Dubai
Only days ago it was far from a foregone conclusion, but the arrival of a Bombardier CSeries flight test vehicle here in Dubai marks the highlight of Bombardier’s presence on the show’s static display...
View ArticleNew Crop of Narrowbodies Promise Giant Leap in Efficiency
Long considered a hotbed of widebody sales, the Middle East in more recent years has also become a prime target of opportunity for narrowbodies, as the likes of FlyDubai, Air Arabia and Jazeera Airways...
View ArticleWith Ex-Im Authorization in Limbo, GA Shipments Fall
The general aviation industry shipped a total of 2,243 airplanes and rotorcraft in the first nine months of 2015 for a combined value of $18.5 billion, according to statistics released Friday by the...
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Airbus Sees Vital Market in Mideast
Having placed 700 aircraft since 1978 in a territory that includes the Middle East and North Africa, Airbus now counts a customer base of 40 airlines in 30 countries ranging from the east Atlantic...
View ArticleTwin Otter for Skydive Dubai
Skydive Dubai, a local commercial parachuting company, is shortly to take delivery of a Viking Twin Otter Series 400. That makes Skydive Dubai the first commercial customer in the Middle East for the...
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Reworked UAC Strategy Gives More Work To Local Leasing Companies
The renewed strategy of United Aircraft Corporation (UAC, Chalet C4, Stand 550) is for civil aviation to represent 50 percent of the corporation’s income. The 100-seat Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100), an...
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Embraer Debuts Super Tucano at Dubai
Embraer reports strong Middle East regional interest in its A-29 Super Tucano light attack turboprop and progress toward the possible U.S. foreign military sale of six airplanes to Lebanon. The Super...
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Citation Latitude Touches Down in Dubai
Cessna’s new Citation Latitude business jet is making its Dubai Airshow debut this week in a region where the company’s similar Citation Sovereign has proven popular. Textron Aviation’s new twinjet...
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Latest Rolls-Royce Trent XWB Enters Flight Test
Rolls-Royce (Stand 1134) and Airbus expect to log about 120 hours’ test-flying with the new 97,000-pound-thrust Trent XWB-97 engine for the stretched A350-1000 XWB twin-aisle twinjet. This latest Trent...
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Middle East Airlines Are Thriving, Growing Locally
As the region’s biggest country, it would be reasonable to expect that Saudi Arabia would be the biggest mover and shaker in Middle East aviation. But the UAE has taken that role for itself. In...
View ArticleComac Rolls-out C919, But Program Timeline Still Uncertain
After seven years of development marked by repeated delays, China’s new C919 airliner is ready to start ground testing of its avionics, flight controls and hydraulics systems. It made its debut in a...
View ArticleImproved Performance L410 Continues World Tour
Czech manufacturer Aircraft Industries (AI) is here in Dubai (Stand 1947) to show its prototype L410NG commuter aircraft, which first flew in late July. Since then, the test-flying team it has been...
View ArticleTextron showcases full range of commercial, military aircraft
Textron (Chalet A43-45) is here at the Dubai showcasing its military and commercial products through its Textron Aviation, Textron AirLand, Bell Helicopter and Textron Systems businesses.Making its...
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Wolverine On The Loose In Europe
During September, the Beechcraft’s AT-6C Wolverine light attack and reconnaissance aircraft completed its first NATO exercise. Held at Namest in the Czech Republic, Ample Strike 15 was a multinational...
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ATR Continues To Drive Turboprop Revolution
Franco-Italian turboprop manufacturer ATR is here at the Dubai Air Show (Stand 816) in a region where it has not sold aircraft in as large numbers as in some other regions, although it has found...
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Embraer Brings E2 Cabin, Super Tucano, Bizjets
Embraer is exhibiting here at the Dubai Airshow with various aircraft in the static display plus an E-Jet E2 cabin concept on its stand in the Hall (Stand 2260), showing the comfort that can soon be...
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Gulfstream Has Big Presence As New Jets Approach
Gulfstream Aerospace has one of the highest profiles among business aircraft manufacturers exhibiting at the Dubai Airshow this week, despite the fact that the event is being staged barely a week ahead...
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Iran Prepares to Re-equip its Military
There is probably no air force in modern history that deserves more credit for innovation and adaptive skills than the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF). For more than 35 years the Iranian...
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Fifth-generation Fighter Goes on Show
China’s AVIC is displaying a model of the FC-31 fifth-generation fighter for the first time at Dubai, having first aired the concept at Airshow China in Zhuhai last year. A product of the Shenyang...
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Production ArchAngel Goes On Show
Making its public debut at the Dubai Air Show is the Iomax ArchAngel border patrol/armed ISR platform. The UAE Armed Forces have ordered the latest Block 3 iteration of Iomax’s modified agricultural...
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