Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
AAR has held a ribbon cutting for the expansion of its Airframe MRO facility at Miami International Airport, adding over 100,000 square feet and three lines of heavy maintenance constructed specifically to meet the capacity requirements of a long-term commercial airline customer. The first aircraft is expected this autumn and the expansion creates 200 full-time […]
Eve Air Mobility and Thai aerospace company RV Connex have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on regulatory development for Thailand’s advanced air mobility industry, evaluating operational scenarios, safety requirements, airspace rules and infrastructure needs specific to the Thai aviation system. REGULATION BEFORE AIRCRAFT Eve Air Mobility and RV Connex Co., Ltd. are
GE Aerospace and Kratos have announced that their GEK800 engine has received the United States military type designation F143-ZZ-100 and won an Engineering, Manufacturing and Development contract with the US Air Force as a second-source propulsion system for the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile. A DESIGNATION AND A DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT TOGETHER GE Aerospace and Kratos
Firefly Aerospace has been awarded a NASA Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract, allowing it to bid for task orders providing payload processing facilities and services for NASA missions launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The facility in question is the one Firefly built to support responsive launch, and it sits half a mile from its pad.
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Reliance Industries and Rolls-Royce have announced a strategic intent to partner on the design, development, manufacture and delivery of an indigenous combat engine for India’s Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft programme, and will explore forming a dedicated Aerospace Gas Turbine Complex as a centre of excellence for propulsion technology in India. AN INTENT, NOT YET A
From one minute past midnight on 17 August, all scheduled commercial services serving the city of Visakhapatnam transferred from the civil enclave at the INS Dega naval air station to the new Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport at Bhogapuram. Air India has moved its 14 weekly Delhi services, and the airport code moved with the
Embraer will demonstrate the Ipanema 203 at the Brazilian Agricultural Aviation Congress in Goiás from 18 to 20 August. The aircraft holds more than 50 per cent share of the domestic cropduster segment, has run on 100 per cent ethanol for over two decades, and can spray more than 200 hectares an hour. TWO DECADES
TAAG Angola Airlines has completed a specialised live animal movement carrying two adult lions, each weighing approximately 200 kilograms, from Johannesburg to Lagos through Dr António Agostinho Neto International Airport in Luanda. This is an operation that the carrier presents as evidence of both its cargo capability and Luanda’s emerging role as a transit point
Avolon has agreed a sale and leaseback with Akasa Air covering up to seven Boeing 737-8200 aircraft, extending a relationship dating to the Indian carrier’s launch. The 737-8200 is the highest-capacity variant of the 737-8 MAX, a configuration suited to the high-density domestic operations driving Indian traffic growth. THE THIRD TRANSACTION IN A RELATIONSHIP THAT
Air New Zealand and Air Chathams have expanded their interline partnership so that passengers travelling to and from the Chatham Islands can book one journey connecting to the national network, with baggage checked through. Whanganui joins at the same time, and the change coincides with the opening of a new terminal on the islands. THROUGH-TICKETING
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