April 2012

General Aviation News April 17, 2012

EMBRAER INCREASES JET DELIVERIES IN 1st QUARTER 2012

– Backlog on March 31, 2012: 14.7 billion – E-Jets ordered by 60 companies in 42 countries – 300 jets of the Phenom…

General Aviation News April 17, 2012

Eurocopter targets next phase of growth in Japan through business consolidation and relocation to expanded facility in Kobe Airport

The inauguration ceremony at Eurocopter Japan’s brand new facility at Kobe Airport today marks a new milestone for Eurocopter in a country that has been…

General Aviation News April 17, 2012

Porter Airlines Operates Bombardier Q400 Aircraft in Canada’s First Biofuel-Powered Revenue Flight

Biofuel test program led by Bombardier Aerospace, Porter Airlines, Pratt & Whitney Canada and Targeted Growth successfully concluded Program funded by the key partners and…

Civilian aviation news April 17, 2012

Boeing, ANA Celebrate First 787 Biofuel Flight

Boeing and All Nippon Airways (ANA) made aviation history today as a 787 Dreamliner flew for the first time powered in part by sustainable biofuels….

Military Aviation News April 17, 2012

Boeing Awards Direct Contract to Mubadala Aerospace’s Strata Facility to Produce Composite Aerostructures for 777 and 787 Dreamliner

Boeing and Mubadala Aerospace today announced a 10-year direct contract for Strata Manufacturing, Mubadala Aerospace’s advanced composite aerostructures facility in Al Ain, to produce commercial…

Military Aviation News April 17, 2012

Aviation News

April 2012

EMBRAER INCREASES JET DELIVERIES IN 1st QUARTER 2012

Eurocopter targets next phase of growth in Japan through business consolidation and relocation to expanded facility in Kobe Airport

Porter Airlines Operates Bombardier Q400 Aircraft in Canada’s First Biofuel-Powered Revenue Flight

Boeing, ANA Celebrate First 787 Biofuel Flight

Boeing Awards Direct Contract to Mubadala Aerospace’s Strata Facility to Produce Composite Aerostructures for 777 and 787 Dreamliner

Boeing Receives Additional Laser JDAM Contract from US Navy

Alenia North America Becomes Alenia Aermacchi: A New Name, A Century of Experience

United Kingdom’s First Lockheed Martin F-35 Makes Inaugural Flight

Designing the interplanetary web

Airbus Military A400M makes first landing in Malaysia

Boeing Celebrates 4,000th Next-Generation 737

BINGO AIRWAYS has signed a lease contract with MCAP for its first Airbus A320 aircraft.