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Boeing Still Inspecting 787 Dreamliners for Workmanship ‘Issues’

Boeing hasn’t finished inspecting parts of the tail sections of flight-test and production 787 Dreamliners, several weeks after the Chicago-based aerospace

August 12, 2010

Embraer Legacy 650 To Debut This Week at Labace

The Embraer Legacy 650 will make its public debut at the seventh Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (Labace), which starts on Thursda

August 10, 2010

Insitu Integrator Wins STUAS Award

Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing, has won the U.S.

Brazil Commits to Embraer KC-390

During the Farnborough airshow in late July, the Brazilian air force announced its intention to acquire 28 <link news/single-news-page/article/embraer-look

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Boeing Narrows the C-17, but Widens the Search for Exports

Boeing has revealed its latest thinking on how the C-17 heav

Japan Eyes Further Mitsubishi F-2 Procurement

Japan is examining the possibility of continuing production of the Mitsubishi F-2 to bolster its fighter fleet in the face of growing Chinese capability, a

China and Pakistan Push Chengdu JF-17 Fighter for Export

In the same week that the Chengdu JF-17 Thunder combat aircraft made its <link news/single-news-page/article/pakistans-jf-17-thunders-onto-the-farnborough-

Cathay Pacific To Order 30 A350 XWBs, Convert Purchase Rights for Six Boeing 777-300ERs

Cathay Pacific Airways has signed a letter of intent with Airbus covering 30 <link news/single-news-page/article/airbus-keeps-a350xwb-on-the-787s-tail-2541

Gulfstream, Mitsubishi, Bell Tops in AIN Support Survey

Readers placed Gulfstream on top in the annual AIN <link news/single-news-page/article/ain-2010-product-support-survey-part-one-aircraft-25602/ _bla

Bombardier Commits to Wichita for Learjet 85 Assembly

An agreement reached by Bombardier executives and Kansas Gov.

Eagle’s latest batch of CRJ700s starts to arrive

American Eagle’s first shipment of new airplanes in some five years began last month as the Dallas-based regional airline took delivery of two new CRJ700s

Falcon 900LX wins EASA, FAA certification

Dassault’s Falcon 900LX, the newest member of the Falcon line, has won certification from both the EASA and FAA.  The large-cabin 900LX i

First Learjet 85 Fuselage Manufactured

Bombardier Aerospace has built the first all-composite manufacturing validation unit (MVU) for the Learjet 85’s pressure vessel.

Product Support Survey 2010 Part 1: Aircraft

Gulfstream once again takes the number one slot for jets (those built in the U.S.); Hawker Beechcraft takes the top spot among newer turboprops.

Airbus to Boosts Single-Aisle Production to 40 per Month

Airbus will raise the monthly production rate of its A320-family aircraft to 38 per month in August 2011 and to 40 per month in first quarter 2012, the com

First Conforming HondaJet Powered On

Honda Aircraft this week said that power was switched on in its first conforming flight-test HondaJet light jet, while the fuselage and wing assemblies wer

Airbus A321 Crashes in Pakistan, Killing 152

An Airbus A321 operated by Pakistani airline Airblue crashed this morning in the Margalla hills, north of Islamabad, killing all 15

Extra 500 Composite Turboprop Single Resurrected

Extra Aircraft announced plans Friday to produce the dormant carbon-fiber-fuselage Extra 500 turboprop single in Montrose, Colo., for $1.65 million per cop

Piper’s New Leader Jump Starts PiperJet Program

According to Piper Aircraft’s recently appointed executive vice president, Randy Groom, a year ago only 12 people were actively working on the single-engin

Klapmeier Confident of Kestrel Capitalization

Alan Klapmeier, the former chairman of Cirrus and new CEO of Kestrel Aircraft, told AIN yesterday at EAA AirVenture that the company still needs to raise a

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