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To coincide with today's big news that Turkish Airlines is to order up to 95 Boeing 737s (and also to enable me to use this puntastic headline) here's a brilliant shot of a Turkish Airlines 737-900ER from AirSpace user Martin Needham.

Turboprops are never going to get as much love as other aircraft types. They lack the scale of an A380, the excitement of a jet fighter or the potential for battery-induced blazes of a 787. Nonetheless, this picture from ATR of the first delivery of an ATR 72-600 to Myanmar's Air KBZ may go someway to redressing that balance.

Qatar Airways has received its first Dreamliner this week, but visitors to the Farnborough airshow last summer had a preview. Here's Qatar Airway's Boeing 787 taking off from the Hampshire airfield.

Photo credit: airspace user Hounddogone

Much as the title suggests, this shot, posted by user hounddogone on our AirSpace forum, shows an Airbus A380 operated by Singapore Airlines on approach to London Heathrow. The carrier is celebrating five years of A380 service this year.

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While the press release from ATR boasts of its first delivery of an ATR 72-600 to Air New Zealand, we're pretty sure the accompanying photograph shows the turboprop - complete with distinctive All Black livery - flying over ATR's home city of Toulouse. The delivery is the first from a 2011 order of seven 68-seaters, with a further five aircraft on option. Deliveries will be completed during 2016. The pictured aircraft will enter service in November, with ANZ subsidiary Mount Cook Airlines.

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To celebrate the one-year anniversary of the first delivery of Boeing's much-delayed 787, our pic of the week is this wonderful photo from AirSpace user coalburner of the Dreamliner.

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Released as part of its latest The Future by Airbus report, this image from Airbus either shows a flock of concept airliners flying in formation along an "express skyway" or a mother bird and her brood. You decide.

Credit: Airbus

Ahead of its delivery at the end of September, United Airlines' initial Boeing 787 has completed its first production flight. The aircraft took off from Boeing's Paine Field in Everett, Washington on Sunday 19 August. The flight tested the 787's onboard systems at high and medium altitudes. They also checked back-up and safety elements, including cabin pressurisation, avionics, navigation and communications systems.

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AirSpace user berniec supplies this shot of the Malaysia Airlines A380 displaying at the Farnborough air show in July.

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It may posess an eye-watering colourscheme and use the most contrived acronym ever, but this Airbus A320 belonging to Japanese low-cost carrier Peach Aviation looks striking against the green foreground as it comes in to land at Osaka. 

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