Gregory Polek
Senior Editor
Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with New Jersey Monthly magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for Aviation International News in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.
Latest from Gregory Polek
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VASO Launches An-148 Flight Trials
The first Antonov An-148 built by Russia’s Voronezh Aircraft Plant (VASO), regist
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Boeing Assembles First 747-8
Boeing announced today that it has assembled the major sections of the first 747-8 Freighter this week, as mechanics at the factory in Everett, Wash., load
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Boeing Lands Order for 13 737-800s
Panama’s Copa Airlines has placed an estimated $1 billion firm order for 13 Boeing 737-800s, in a deal consisting of a mixture of option conversions and ne
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First ARJ21 Transferred to Xi’an Flight Test Center
Test pilots yesterday flew the first ARJ21-700 regional jet from its production site in Shanghai to China’s Flight Test Establishment in Xi’an, the capital
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Iranian Airliner Crashes, 168 Presumed Dead
A Tupolev Tu-154 operated by Iran’s Caspian Airlines crashed today near the city of Qazvin in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people on board, according
NTSB Sends Team To Inspect Hole in Southwest Airlines 737
The National Transportation Safety Board has dispatched investigators to examine a Southwest Airlines jet after it made an emergency landing in West Virgin
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Boeing Moves To Take Over Vought
Boeing announced today that it has agreed to acquire the business and operations conducted by Vought Aircraft Industries at its North Charleston, S.C.
British Airways Defers A380 Deliveries
British Airways has delayed delivery of its first six Airbus A380s by an average of five months and the remaining six by an average of two years, the airli
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Airbus Launches Program To Improve Flight Data Recovery
Airbus has launched a study for improving flight data recovery, including extended data transmission for commercial airliners, the company announced last w
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French Investigators Conclude Air France Flight 447 Did Not Break Apart in Flight
The condition of the wreckage recovered from that Ai
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Mitsubishi hitting its stride in march toward first flight
Development of Mitsubishi Aircraft’s MRJ regional jet continues on schedule, as some 800 engineers, designers and subcontractors in Nagoya, Japan, work to
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First An-148 Enters Service
Ukrainian airline AeroSvit launched passenger service with the first Antonov An-148-100 regional jet on a June 2 flight between Borispol International Airp
Gulfstream Intl. under FAA Scrutiny
The FAA continued to investigate charges leveled at Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Gulfstream International Airlines last month after proposing in May that th
Colgan Inspector Blows Whistle on FAA
An FAA inspector has filed a federal “whistleblower” complaint against his employer, charging the agency with removing him from his field position overseei
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Next Superjet likely a stretch
The next variation of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 will almost certainly involve a stretch of the existing 95-seat baseline platform, leaving the once highly an
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ATR eyes U.S. market as it preps -600 for flight
As Franco-Italian turboprop maker ATR readies for the first flight of its new 600 Series this month, the company finds itself in a “comfortable position” b
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Yemenia A310 Crashes, 152 Feared Dead
A Yemenia (Yemen Airways) Airbus A310-300 crashed into the Indian Ocean, just north of the Comoros Island
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Bombardier’s Toronto Plant Averts Strike
Workers at Bombardier’s de Havilland plant in north Toronto ratified a new three-year labor contract yesterday, averting a strike that stood to affect 2,75
Boeing Joins 747-8 Wing Box to Center Section
Boeing announced today that it has joined the first 747-8’s wing box to the airplane’s 40-foot-long center fuselage section in the final assembly bay at it
Paris Air Show Stages Industry Sales Rally
For one week at least, the gloom of the global recession seemed to lift along with the storm clouds gathered over the grounds of the Paris Air Show in Le B
Boeing in Studies to Re-Wing 777
Boeing Commercial Airplanes has begun to study the possibility of fitting the
Airbus Inks Financing Deal with Chinese Bank
Airbus hopes to help loosen the grip of tight-fisted credit outlets with an MoU it signed this month with the world’s largest bank, China’s ICBC, to collab
Patience with 787 Delays Running Thin
The wellspring of goodwill among customers for the chronically delayed Boeing 787 drained a bit more this past week, when the company
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Qantas Slashes 787-9 Order, Delays Deliveries
The Qantas Group has reduced its firm order for 65 Boeing 787-9s by 15 airplanes, delayed first delivery of the type by three years and suspended delivery
Captain, Flight Attendant from Air France Flight 447 Identified
Search teams have found the bodies of the captain and a flight attendant among the victims of the crash of Air France Flight 447, the company confirmed tod
More Delays for Boeing 787
Boeing announced today that it has postponed first flight of the 787 Dreamliner once again, this time due to a need to reinforce areas within the side-of-b
Airbus Delivers First A320 Assembled in China
Airbus today delivered the first A320 aircraft assembled at its Final Assembly Line China (FALC) in Tianjin.
Virgin Atlantic Airways Commits to 10 New Airbus A330s
Virgin Atlantic Airways announced today that it signed a $2.1 billion firm contract to buy six Airbus A330-300s and lease another four from Netherlands-bas
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Air Maroc, Air France in MRO deal
Royal Air Maroc (RAM) and Air France Industries yesterday signed a shareholder agreement to create a joint-venture MRO facility at Casablanca Mohammed V In
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GP7200 to power Air Austral’s Airbus A380s
Air Austral selected the Engine Alliance GP7200 to power the pair of Airbus A380s it has ordered.
