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Air Nostrum parent to create CRJ MRO centre in Paraguay
Inversiones en Lineas Aereas Internacionales (ILAI), the holding company created by the owners of Spain’s largest regional carrier and Iberia franchise Air Nostrum, plans to build a maintenance centre for Bombardier CRJ regional jets in Paraguay’s capital, Asuncion.
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Job Air Technic teams with Russian MRO for Ulyanovsk venture
Russian MRO provider T1 has partnered with the Czech peer Job Air Technic to create a technical support centre in Ulyanovsk.
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DHL Express receives first A330P2F freighter
DHL Express has taken delivery of the first Airbus A330 to be converted from passenger to freighter configuration.
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Airbus Helicopters axes H120 light-single
Airbus Helicopters has called time on its involvement in the short-light-single segment and has axed the H120 Colibri from its line-up.
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Boeing opens Global Services R&D lab in Germany
Boeing has established a research and development facility for digital services at subsidiary Jeppesen's site in Frankfurt.
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Airbus technology chief departs after 18 months in role
Airbus Group's chief technology officer Paul Eremenko is leaving to take up the same role at United Technologies after a short but eventful year-and-a-half-long tenure.
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PICTURES: A330-300P2F secures STC approval
Conversion specialist EFW has secured European supplemental type certification for the modified Airbus A330-300 passenger-to-freighter modification.
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UK government pledges £54 million for aerospace research projects
Seven aerospace research and development projects have been granted investment worth a total of nearly £54 million ($73 million) by the UK government in a bid to boost the country's aerospace sector.
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PICTURE: A330-800 enters final assembly
Airbus has commenced final assembly of the first A330-800, the smaller of the two variants of the re-engined A330neo.
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Airbus, Siemens, R-R plan hybrid flights by 2020
Airbus, Rolls-Royce and Siemens have teamed up to demonstrate a flyable hybrid-electric propulsion system on a British Aerospace 146 regional jet.
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LHT to maintain CFM56 engines for Mango
South African Airways' budget subsidiary Mango has selected Lufthansa Technik to overhaul the CFM International CFM56 engines powering Boeing 737NGs.
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ANALYSIS: Dublin Aerospace rules out UK as it scouts for new site
Irish MRO provider Dublin Aerospace is evaluating various international locations for expansion after a plan to establish a UK facility was abandoned as a result of Brexit.
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PICTURE: GE9X prepared for first flight on 747 testbed
A first-flight milestone for the GE9X turbofan is only weeks away after GE Aviation completed installing the 339cm (133.5in)-diameter turbofan on the Boeing 747-400 testbed.
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Textron launches Beech 1900-sized SkyCourier with FedEx order
Textron Aviation has unveiled and launched the twin-engined Cessna 408 SkyCourier with a surprise order by FedEx for up to 100 aircraft worth $550 million at list price, in a move that reinserts the company into a market segment once occupied by the Beech 1900.
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Airbus names successor to 'living legend' Leahy
Airbus's highly-regarded veteran sales chief, John Leahy, is to be succeeded by Rolls-Royce civil aerospace president Eric Schulz next year.
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Lufthansa details 777X business-class seating
Lufthansa has revealed details of its next business-class seat, to be introduced on the airline's on-order Boeing 777X twinjets.
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NAVAIR studies plugging MQ-25 ground system into carrier ATC
As three companies continue vying for the contract to develop the MQ-25 Stingray, the US Navy is quietly making progress with the design of the carrier-based, unmanned tanker aircraft’s mission control system.
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Investor to take large shareholding in Adria MRO parent
Czech investment firm Hartenberg Holdings is to take a 50% shareholding in the parent of maintenance company Adria Airways Tehnika and its sister firm Linetech.
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Russian windtunnel tests wing for proposed long-haul jet
Russian analysts have conducted windtunnel tests to verify the performance of the preliminary wing design of a proposed long-haul widebody aircraft.