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12 Years After First Flight, HondaJet Cert within Grasp
Twelve years after the Honda Motor Co. announced the first flight of its experimental compact business jet, the HondaJet, the since formed Honda Aircraft is on the cusp of certification and...
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Upgrade for Singapore’s F-16 Fleet Goes Ahead
Confirmation that Singapore is proceeding with an F-16 fighter upgrade came from an official U.S. government business announcement this week. Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $914 million foreign...
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Report: Multiple Failures Led To Afghan Hospital Attack
The U.S. attack on the hospital run by the NGO Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Kunduz, Afghanistan, during the night of October 2-3 was a “tragic but avoidable accident…the direct result of human...
View ArticleCirrus Teases Vision SF50 Performance Numbers
As Cirrus Aircraft completes the final requirements for FAA certification of the Vision SF50 single-engine jet, the company released details of a flight profile that sheds light on the personal jet’s...
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Airbus Helicopters Improves German Reputation With H-145M
Airbus Helicopters will next week hand over the first two of 15 H145M twins ordered by the German army, for use by the country's special forces. Deliveries will continue through 2017. After heavy...
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U.S. Aerospace Industry Hails Ex-Im Bank Reauthorization
The U.S. aerospace industry hailed the passage by Congress of legislation that renews the operating authority of the Export-Import Bank more than five months after that authority expired. The dispute...
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Russia Upgrades Airborne Command Post
One of Russia’s four Ilyushin Il-80 airborne command posts has been modernized and has passed state acceptance trials. It will be handed back to the defense ministry later this month. The announcement...
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Actor Morgan Freeman Unhurt in SJ30 Incident
Actor Morgan Freeman’s SyberJet SJ30 ran off the runway at Mississippi’s Tunica Municipal Airport at about 6:15 p.m. local time on Saturday “after diverting following a reported possible blown tire and...
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Daher Delivers 100th TBM 900 Turboprop Single
Daher delivered the 100th TBM 900, just 20 months after the updated turboprop single was revealed, the company announced yesterday. The milestone TBM 900 was handed over to Dale Schneider, a North...
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ATR 72-600 Wins EASA Nod for High-density Cabin
The high-density seating configuration option for the ATR 72-600 has received its certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Using the existing airframe, ATR achieved the new...
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Boeing Rolls Out First 737 Max
Nineteen years to the day since the last rollout from its factory in Renton, Washington, Boeing Tuesday introduced its 737 Max 8, a new take on what has become the manufacturer’s most ubiquitous...
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U.S. Files WTO Proceedings against China over Aircraft Taxes
The office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has launched dispute settlement proceedings at the World Trade Organization over China’s exemption of value added tax (VAT) on domestically made...
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Pilatus Registers The Latest Win for PC-21
Pilatus Aircraft belatedly acknowledged Australia’s choice last September of the PC-21 for basic and advanced flight training. Together with Hawker Pacific, the Swiss company was part of the Lockheed...
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Boeing Completes 'Peace Eagle' AEW&C Deliveries to Turkey
Boeing delivered the fourth and final Peace Eagle airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft to the Turkish Air Force on December 9, completing deliveries it started years late due to...
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FAA Type Certificate Issued for HA-420 HondaJet
A visibly emotional Michimasa Fujino, president and CEO of Honda Aircraft, celebrated issuance of the HA-420 HondaJet’s FAA type certificate at a ceremony last night held in the Honda customer support...
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Third Series of Test Flights Completed by All-British UCAV
The Taranis UCAV demonstrator that has been produced by a UK industry-government partnership completed a third and final flight-test campaign last month. AIN understands that a key objective was to...
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Porter “Assessing” Rejected Toronto City CSeries Proposal
Potential Bombardier CSeries operations from Toronto City Airport remain in limbo after Porter Airlines failed to persuade authorities to support plans to fly the 120-seat jetliner from the airport's...
View ArticleWall Street Improves Outlook on Textron
Textron's successful integration of its Beechcraft acquisition and new lineup of business jets is improving Wall Street’s view of the company. Ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service this week changed...
View ArticleGlobal Jet Now Has Lion's Share of GE's Bizjet Portfolio
Nearly a year after Global Jet Capital was launched, the aircraft financing firm has completed about 90 percent of its acquisition of GE’s fixed-wing corporate aircraft financing portfolio in the...
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New Air Tankers for Russian Air Force
UAC’s Aviastar plant in Ulyanovsk has completed mating the first airframe of the Ilyushin Il-78M-90A airtanker. It will be taken out of assembly rig and towed to the final assembly shop later this...
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