All North America news – Page 407
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PICTURES: SB-1 Defiant breaks cover
Sikorsky and Boeing have unveiled the SB-1 Defiant helicopter, providing a pair of images showing the rotorcraft from the front and rear.
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Brazil court revokes injunction against Embraer-Boeing deal
A Brazil appeals court judge has struck down a second injunction issued last week against the proposed commercial aviation joint venture between Embraer and Boeing.
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Wow improves liquidity $12m through Air Canada A321 deal
Restructuring Icelandic carrier Wow Air has signed a deal to sell four Airbus A321s to Air Canada in a deal the carrier says will improve its liquidity by more than $12 million.
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ATSG expands leasing and equity deal with Amazon
Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) will lease an additional 10 Boeing 767-300 Freighters to Amazon, while granting the e-commerce giant additional warrants that will allow Amazon to own a greater share of ATSG.
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RETROSPECTIVE: How Flight first reported the Lockerbie tragedy
On this day 30 years ago, a Boeing 747 operated by Pan American World Airways crashed in the vicinity of the Scottish town of Lockerbie, with tragic loss of life. As well as the 259 passengers and crew on board the 747, 11 residents of the town died as a ...
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MRJ set to start type certification testing in 2019
Mitsubishi Aircraft has passed a major milestone that should allow it to commence certification flight testing for the MRJ90 regional jet next year, while work on the design of the smaller MRJ70 is underway.
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Bombardier Global 7500 enters service
Bombardier’s flagship Global 7500 business jet has entered service, eight years after its launch.
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Embraer faces new injunction against Boeing deal
Embraer says it will "take all applicable judicial measures" to seek the overturn of a second injunction issued against its proposed commercial aviation joint venture with Boeing.
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Republic finalises order for 100 E175s
Republic Airways has firmed up an order for 100 Embraer 175s, first unveiled at the Farnborough air show in July.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Push to create UAV air traffic control system gathers momentum
Advances in technology, improved designs and imaginative applications have led small unmanned air systems – frequently referred to by regulators and users by the popular term “drones” – to be increasingly seen as ready for widespread civil use. But while they are generally regarded, from a capability point of view, ...
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RETROSPECTIVE: 50 years since Apollo 8’s historic lunar mission
Fifty years ago this month, a manned spacecraft blasted off on what Flight International called "the greatest technical experiment ever made – in terms of effort and money", when three US astronauts became the first human beings to slip the surly bonds of Earth.
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PICTURE: Bombardier hands over third Challenger 650 to Rega
Bombardier has delivered the third and final Challenger 650 to Swiss rescue and emergency medical services provider Rega, from a 2015 order for the large-cabin business jet.
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ANALYSIS: Airline start-ups and failures 2018
A round-up of 2018's start-up carriers and those airlines that suspended, ceased operations or entered formal restructuring during the year
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StandardAero to be sold to Carlyle Group
Carlyle Group is to acquire US maintenance specialist StandardAero from private equity firm Veritas Capital.
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Europe approves GE Passport 20 engine
GE Aviation has secured European certification for the Passport 20 engine that powers Bombardier's Global 7500 business jet.
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Textron issues new petition for Longitude fuel tank exemption
Textron Aviation has submitted a new request for exemption from US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) flammability requirements covering the Cessna Citation Longitude's fuel tank. It says the aircraft already "maintains an acceptable level of safety", and that a refusal to approve its petition will "disrupt" deliveries of the super-midsize business ...
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SkyWest to sell ExpressJet to United joint venture
SkyWest Inc has agreed to sell ExpressJet Airlines to United Airlines joint venture ManaAir for some $70 million in cash.
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GA Telesis, partners firm up engine leasing venture
GA Telesis, Tokyo Century Corporation, and All Nippon Airways Trading have formed a joint venture called Gateway Engine Leasing.
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Delta to resume Mexico City service from Minneapolis/St Paul
Delta Air Lines will return to service between Minneapolis/St Paul and Mexico City from 8 June 2019, almost eight years after it ended flights on the route.
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Boeing and Embraer agree on terms for planned tie-up
Boeing and Embraer have agreed the terms of their planned joint venture under which the US manufacturer is set to take control of Embraer’s commercial aircraft activities in 2019.