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&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;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&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;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.

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Three separate contracts executed by Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) over the past two days at the Moscow Air Show (MAKS) have added as many as 31 aircraft to the manufacturer’s Superjet 100 backlog and expanded its coverage among leasing companies.


Anchored by a Letter of Intent to finance and lease five Sukhoi Superjet 100s, Lithuania’s AviaMA Leasing has signed a new partnership agreement with SCAC aimed at promoting the SSJ100 in emerging markets. That deal, signed Wednesday at MAKS, came just a day after SCAC and Russia’s Ilyushin Finance (IFC) signed a contract calling for delivery of 20 SSJ100s, five of which would go to a still unidentified airline in a 103-seat, long-range configuration by the end of 2015. The remaining 15 airplanes, specified to roll out of SCAC’s Komsomolsk-upon-Amur factory in the SSJ100’s “basic” configuration, would go to customers in Southeast Asia and Middle East, also starting in 2015.


Finally, on Tuesday, SCAC and Russia's VEB Leasing signed another contract that calls for delivery of another six SSJ100s to Russia’s UTAir. Worth $217.2 million at list prices, that contract calls for the first of the six airplanes to arrive at one of UTAir’s bases at the end of next year.


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