Content Archive: December 2006

Aircraft

Boeing Delivers First GLS-equipped 737-800

Boeing has delivered its first 737-800 equipped with a new type of GPS-based landing system developed by Rockwell Collins.
Aircraft

Dunlop Gives ATR 72 Extra Brake Life

An extended brake service life of up to 40 percent is offered to ATR 72 operators as a result of close collaboration between Dunlop Aerospace Braking Syste

Exostar helps contractors to assure identity

Exostar has come to Paris to promote the new Certipath trusted identity assurance system, a so-called commercial bridge between defense and aeronautics fir
Aircraft

Cimber Aviation adds ATR 72s to cargo conversion

Denmark’s Cimber Aviation Group has won a contract with Avions de Transport Regional to perform E Class cargo conversions for the ATR 72.

Nose-to-nose in the subsidy war

The apparent delay in the launch of the Airbus A350 has raised the intrigue over the escalating subsidy row between Boeing and Airbus.

Deliveries Increase Despite Learjet Strike

Although a strike last summer at Learjet facilities in Wichita held down aircraft deliveries in the third quarter of this year compared with the same perio

Carlyle Group Confirmed Bidder for Raytheon Aircraft

AIN has confirmed that the Carlyle Group, a Washington-based global private equity firm, is one of three bidders for Raytheon Aircraft.
Airports

Will ’Voluntary’ Efforts by TEB Users Be Enough?

Six weeks after the Teterboro Airport Industry Working Group, a cooperative effort between airport users and neighboring residents, reached agreement on se
Engines

New P&WC fan picked to power C Series airliner

Pratt & Whitney Canada plans to build a brand-new engine for Bomardier C Series line of single-aisle commercial airliners.
Airports

Operators Honored for Flying Quieter

Westchester County Airport (HPN) in White Plains, N.Y., today presented its 2005 Spirit of Noise Abatement Award to 32 of its based operators and corporate