June 2013 – Page 3 – Aviation News

Civilian aviation news June 26, 2013

Bombardier Completes CSeries Aircraft Ground Vibration Tests and Final Software Upgrades In Preparation for First Flight

June 26, 2013 — Montréal Aerospace Safety of Flight statements from all suppliers obtained Application for Transport Canada flight test permit submitted First flight to…

Civilian aviation news June 26, 2013

Boeing Gains FAA Approval to Fly Advanced Navigation Procedures on 787

Services available to help customers with RNP AR application process SEATTLE, June 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Boeing [NYSE: BA] has received FAA approval to fly…

Civilian aviation news June 26, 2013

Boeing deploys additional 717s to Qantas, Volotea

– Australia’s QantasLink to receive five aircraft on multi-year lease; Volotea to add five in 2013 SEATTLE, June 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Boeing’s (NYSE: BA)…

Military Aviation News June 26, 2013

First Italian Army ICH-47F Chinook Performs Its Maiden Flight

AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that the first ICH-47F Chinook for the Italian Army successfully accomplished its maiden flight on June 24th…

Civilian aviation news June 26, 2013

Airbus-CAE Training Services Cooperation mutually concluded

Partners pave way for new business relationship 26 June 2013 CAE and Airbus have mutually agreed to conclude their existing “Airbus-CAE Training Services Cooperation” in…

General Aviation News June 25, 2013

Russian Cosmonauts Complete Spacewalk

MISSION CONTROL, June 25 – Russian cosmonauts, Expedition 36 flight engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin have completed their spacewalk that lasted 6 hours and 34…

Space News June 25, 2013

Shenzhou-10 to return Wednesday to Earth

Shenzhou-10 to return after fly-around, rendezvous test BEIJING, June 25 (Xinhua) — Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-10 with three astronauts onboard will return to the Earth around…

Civilian aviation news June 25, 2013

Rolls-Royce wins $1bn order from Scandinavian Airlines System

Tuesday, 25 June 2013 Rolls-Royce has won an order worth $1 billion, at list prices, from Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) for Trent XWB and Trent…

Military Aviation News June 25, 2013

Lockheed Martin Wins U.S. Army Helicopter Maintenance Program

DALLAS, June 25, 2013 – Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] received an aircraft maintenance and logistics contract with an initial funding value of $5 million from…

Civilian aviation news June 25, 2013

The Helicopter of the Future: Eurocopter signs first partnerships with 22 innovative companies

Eurocopter today continued its participation at the 50th Paris Air Show by signing the first 22 partnership agreements with innovative French companies selected to form…

Civilian aviation news June 25, 2013

SAS selects eight A350 XWBs and four A330s

Airbus fleet will bring the airline into a new long haul future 25 June 2013 Scandinavian carrier SAS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)…

Civilian aviation news, General Aviation News June 24, 2013

Tarrant County College to Purchase Bell Helicopter Alliance Facility

Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, and Tarrant County College (TCC) today announced an agreement through which TCC will purchase Bell Helicopter’s Military Programs Center…