Airbus has inaugurated its new A330 completion and delivery centre (CDC) in Tianjin, with local operator Tianjin Airlines taking delivery of the centre’s first aircraft – an A330-200 registered B-8596. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading
Despite earlier assurances that Boeing would deliver the US Air Force’s first 767-based KC-46A tanker by the end of this year, boom scraping issues and a slew of uncompleted test points may delay delivery until 2018, the head of its Air Mobility Command has revealed. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading
As Textron Airborne Solutions pursues the US Air Force s lucrative adversary air (ADAIR) contract, the company earlier this month acquired 63 Dassault Mirage F1s, ATAC chief executive Jeffrey Parker tells FlightGlobal. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading
UK start-up Waves Technologies is gearing-up to launch in October the first Channel Islands-based commercial air taxi operation. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading
The final Gulfstream G450 has rolled off the manufacturer’s Savanah production line and is now undergoing completion at the airframer’s maintenance, repair and overhaul facility in Appleton, Wisconsin, in preparation for its delivery to an unnamed customer early next year. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading
Jet fuel rationing at Auckland airport is set to stretch out for up to two weeks as replacement of a damaged fuel pipeline continues. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading
Scores of US-owned Lockheed Martin F-35s would remain in the fleet with a software operating system rated below combat-grade under one of several cost-saving proposals under review by the Joint Programme Office. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading
A secretive new stealth bomber in development by Northrop Grumman could fall in price if long-term trends hold, says the head of the US Air Force s Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) on 18 September. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has warned that his country “won’t due business” with Boeing if the American airframer continues a trade complaint against Bombardier and its CSeries commercial aircraft. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading
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