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Jumbo sale: two 747 jets auctioned on Chinese online platform

Nov 21, 2017 (AFP)

Chinese air cargo company SF Airlines bought the pair for over 320 million yuan ($48 million), the official Xinhua news agency reported. After six failed attemp...

Norway receives first SAR helicopter from Leonardo

Nov 20, 2017 (UPI)

Leonardo said the aircraft departed it's Yeovil facility on Friday for Sola Air Base in southern Norway. The AW101 is set to undergo further operational testing...

Boeing to upgrade B-52 bombers for U.S. Air Force

Nov 17, 2017 (UPI)

The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is worth more than $23.8 million under a fixed-price incentive-firm, cost-plus-fixed-fee modified co...

GEA awarded $143.4M for CH-53K helicopter engines

Nov 17, 2017 (UPI)

The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is under a firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, meaning that the $143.4 million is the max...

Rockwell Collins awarded $12.7M for E-6B Mercury aircraft upgrades

Nov 17, 2017 (UPI)

The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is under a firm-fixed-price contract, meaning the $12.7 million dollar price tag for technology upgra...

Bell-Boeing to provide V-22 support to Japan

Nov 16, 2017 (UPI)

The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is worth just over $10 million and is classified as a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, meaning Bell-Boeing...

Navy contracts with Bell Helicopter for two AH-1Z Vipers

Nov 16, 2017 (UPI)

The deal is estimated to be worth more than $38.3 million and is classified as a fixed-price-incentive-firm contract, meaning that once performance on the contr...

British-built Hawk training jets to be maintained by BAE

Nov 15, 2017 (UPI)

BAE will contract with the UAE-based Advanced Military Maintenance Repair and Overhaul Center, or AMMROC, to provide repairs and upgrades to Hawk Mk61, Mk102 an...

NASA Embraces Urban Air Mobility, Calls for Market Study

Nov 14, 2017 (SPX)

It's Urban Air Mobility, or UAM. Our definition for UAM is a safe and efficient system for air passenger and cargo transportation within an urban area, inclusiv...

Norway receives first three F-35s from Lockheed Martin

Nov 12, 2017 (UPI)

In a ceremony at Ørland Air Base in Central Norway, military and industry leaders celebrated the arrival of the three 5th generation joint strike fighters. "We...

Cathay Pacific dropped from Hong Kong's benchmark index

Nov 10, 2017 (AFP)

The removal from the Asian financial hub's Hang Seng Index will take place from December 4, the Hang Seng Indexes Company said in a statement late Friday. The c...

China signs $37 billion deal to buy 300 Boeing planes

Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)

The agreement for China Aviation Suppliers Holding Co (CASC) to buy the single-aisle and twin-aisle aircraft was among the more than $250 billion in agreements ...

BAE completes full scale test of F-35A airframe

Nov 09, 2017 (UPI)

The completion is the culmination of the F-35A's third life testing at BAE Systems' testing facility in East Yorkshire in England, which is equivalent to 24,000...

Aviation Renaissance: NASA Advances Concepts for Next-gen Aircraft

Nov 08, 2017 (SPX)

Although the aircraft industry continues to adopt innovative technologies, which are making current aircraft more energy efficient, there's new interest in expl...

Taiwan grounds Mirage jets after plane goes missing

Nov 08, 2017 (AFP)

The single-seat Mirage-2000 flown by Captain Ho Tzu-yu disappeared from the radar at 6:43pm (1043 GMT) on Tuesday off the northeast coast of the island, 34 minu...

Lockheed test pilot reaches 100 hours in proposed 5th generation trainer

Nov 08, 2017 (UPI)

The T-50A is aimed at training future pilots for 5th generation aircraft such as the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lighting II. "This has been a great opportunity to be ...

Lockheed contracted to modernize P-3B aircraft for Greece

Nov 07, 2017 (UPI)

Work on the aircraft -- structural mid-life upgrades, tailored phased depot maintenance, a country-specific designed mission integration and management system a...

General Electric receives $84M for Blackhawk, Apache engine overhauls

Nov 06, 2017 (UPI)

The deal is classified as a firm-fixed-price contract worth $84 million. In December 2016, GE was awarded an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract wo...

Qatar buys 9.6% stake in Cathay Pacific

Nov 06, 2017 (AFP)

The state-owned Gulf carrier said it had acquired a 9.6 percent stake in Cathay, which would make it the third largest shareholder in the Hong Kong airline. Blo...

NASA Air Traffic Management Demonstration Goes Live in Charlotte

Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)

After a grueling, week-long business trip, home is just two hours away - and you can't wait to see family, friends and your own bed! Then the aircraft stops, an...