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China Eastern outlines plans to cancel and delay aircraft
The president of loss-making China Eastern Airlines says the airline is to delay or cancel about half of the 29 aircraft it is due to receive from Airbus...
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Mexicana closes in on 717s and evaluates CSeries
Mexicana is close to finalising a deal to lease 25 Boeing 717s and is looking at acquiring the Bombardier CSeries as a potential replacement for the 717s...
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Boeing considers "modest' delivery cuts in 2010
Boeing Commercial Airplanes has considered making production cuts in 2010 depending on how the market responds to worsening economic and financing trends.
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Florida legislators prepare to introduce new airport wildlife management bill
Florida legislators are drafting a proposal to grant airports immunity from state and local liabilities to implement wildlife mitigation plans following...
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Learjet pilot praised after low-level evasion averts A109 mid-air
Irish investigators have praised the airmanship of a Bombardier Learjet 31A pilot whose swift reactions, immediately after lift-off, averted a mid-air collision...
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FAA releases recording of ATC exchanges during Hudson River ditching
The US Federal Aviation Administration has released the air traffic control recordings and transcripts of the whole US Airways Hudson River ditching incident...
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NewsIAI to send G550-based AEW system to Aero India
Israel Aerospace Industries will send a Gulfstream G550-based conformal airborne early warning and control (CAEW) system aircraft to the Aero India 2009 show ...
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Unmanned cargo aircraft 'have battlefield role' says US Army official
A top US Army acquisition official has conceded that a legitimate, but limited, role exists today on the battlefield for an unmanned cargo aircraft. Speaking...
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Porter eyes more Bombardier Q400s
Canadian startup carrier Porter Airlines may order additional Bombardier Q400 turboprops.
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Bombardier keeps the faith on CSeries
Bombardier's self-imposed deadline to ink firm orders for its geared turbofan (GTF)-powered CSeries airliner passed unceremoniously on 31 January with no...
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Schuster: Hawker Beechcraft to cut 2,300 more employees
Hawker Beechcraft chief executive Jim Schuster in a 3 February letter to employees says the company must...
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NewsBombardier cuts business aircraft production, begins layoffs
Dramatically reduced demand for business aircraft has prompted Bombardier to cut Learjet and Challenger production rates, and layoff 1,360 workers or 4.5%...
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Unmanned jammer could replace Marine Corps Prowlers
The US Marine Corps will consider replacing its radar-jamming Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowlers primarily with a new class of unmanned aircraft systems. For...
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India and Russia aim to fly joint fifth-generation fighter by 2017
India and Russia hope to induct their joint fifth-generation stealth fighter by 2017, with officials from both countries hoping to iron out their differences...
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P&W must wait for Airbus nod before releasing full GTF flight-test results
Pratt & Whitney will not go public with the definitive data on the fuel burn and noise performance of its GTF...
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NewsLessor LCAL scraps most of its 787 order
Specialised Boeing 787 leasing company LCAL has cancelled 16 of the 21 aircraft it had on order, the second large-scale loss to the 787 backlog within a...
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Lessors’ calls for production cuts 'self-serving': Boeing
Boeing's leasing arm insists that calls by operating lessors for single-aisle production to be slashed in the wake of the economic crisis are "self-serving",...
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P&W pushes back detail design start on GTF
Pratt & Whitney has extended the preliminary design phase of its PW1000G GTF...
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AirAsia to launch Jakarta-Singapore and Bali-Singapore service
As early as next month low-cost carrier Indonesia AirAsia will be launching services from Jakarta to Singapore and Bali to Singapore, marking a major regulatory...