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PC-12 Customer Service Rated #1 for 12 consecutive years 27 Aug 2013 | 12:09 am
The readers of Professional Pilot magazine ranked Pilatus as the best customer service provider for business turboprop aircraft for 12 years in a row. In the 2013 Corporate Aircraft Product Support Su...
Ka-62, first Russian helicopter created as international collaboration, to be presented at MAKS 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 12:06 am
Russian Helicopters, a subsidiary of Oboronprom, part of State Corporation Rostec and a leading global designer and manufacturer of helicopters, will present the first prototype of the new medium mult...
ANA Dreamliner hit by weather radar glitch in Japan 27 Aug 2013 | 12:04 am
A Dreamliner flight from Tokyo made a U-turn after its weather radar malfunctioned on Monday, its Japanese operator said. While the error is not uncommon among other plane models it is the latest glit...
GECAS Completes Delivery of Eight New ATR72-600s to Azul 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
SAO PAULO, August 26, 2013 – GE Capital Aviation Services Limited (GECAS), the commercial aircraft leasing and financing arm of GE, announced it delivered an eighth new ATR72-600 to Brazil’s Azul Linh...
China Southern profit down 19% on domestic slowdown 26 Aug 2013 | 11:57 pm
China Southern Airlines said Monday net profit for the first half of 2013 was down 19 percent from a year earlier due to a slowdown in domestic demand. Net profit ending June 30 was 344 million yuan (...
Russia Developing Unmanned Next-Generation Fighter 26 Aug 2013 | 11:55 pm
MOSCOW, August 26 (RIA Novosti) – Russian designers are proceeding with development of an unmanned “sixth-generation” fighter jet, former Air Force chief Pyotr Deinekin said Monday. “The sixth generat...
First China-Assembled Legacy 650 Successfully Completes Maiden Flight 26 Aug 2013 | 11:42 pm
Harbin Embraer Aircraft Industry Co., Ltd (HEAI), Embraer’s joint venture with Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), announced that the first Legacy 650 large executive jet assembled in China...
Xiamen Airlines Finalizes Order for Six 787 Dreamliners 26 Aug 2013 | 11:12 pm
Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Xiamen Airlines have finalized an order for six 787-8s. Originally announced by Xiamen Airlines in May 2011, the order is valued at $1.3 billion at list prices. “Adding 787s to o...
Boeing Rolls Out First 787-9 Dreamliner 26 Aug 2013 | 11:04 pm
Boeing [NYSE: BA] has completed the first 787-9 Dreamliner. The second member of the super-efficient 787 family rolled out of the Everett, Wash., factory today to the flight line, where teams are prep...
ATR approved for unpaved runway operations in Russia’s Siberia and Far East 26 Aug 2013 | 10:56 pm
ATR obtained the company’s receipt of fleet-wide approval for new generation ATR aircraft to operate from 3 more unpaved runways in the remote parts of Russia. Russian Interstate Aviation Committee (I...
