Embraer claims to have beaten seven rival bids to close a deal with Venezuela for the sale of 12 AMX-T trainer/light attack aircraft. The two-seat aircraft are scheduled for delivery at the start of 2005. It understood the aircraft will be configured with the Elta EL/M-2032 radar, a glass cockpit and Elop head-up display and Elbit helmet-mounted display.
Source: Flight International
The joint venture of CAE and KF Aerospace has signed a contract with airframer De Havilland Canada to acquire three Dash 8-400 aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force’s Future Aircrew Training (FAcT) programme, which covers 71 new turboprops and helicopters.
Comac is reportedly targeting 30 deliveries of its C919 aircraft this year, as it expands the production capacity of the narrowbody programme.
One of Boeing’s 777-9 test aircraft returned to the skies on 16 January, ending a four-month grounding of the 777-9 test fleet and indicating some progress in Boeing’s effort to conclude the type’s long-delayed certification programme.
