Boeing Awarded Production Contract for US Air Force AWACS Block 40/45 Upgrade

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Boeing Defence Australia Completes 50,000 Flight-Support Hours for Bell 206B-1 Kiowa

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Bombardier wins approval for extended maintenance intervals

Bombardier has received approval to extend maintenance intervals for its NextGen CRJ700/705/900 and Q400 aircraft from Canadian, European and US authorities….

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American 767 damaged at its Alliance maintenance base

American Airlines says the nose gear on a 767-300 retracted on the ground at its base at the Alliance Fort Worth Airport on 15 July while the aircraft was…

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Delta posts $257 million loss, promises ‘top-to-bottom’ review

Delta Air Lines posted a second-quarter net loss of $257 million, narrowed from a $1.04 billion deficit in the year-ago period, with results for both quarters heavily affected by special charges.

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Boeing remains profitable, closes in on 787 fix

Boeing reported a $998 million profit in the second quarter, up 17% from the $852 million earned in the year-ago period, and said it has identified a fix to the defect in the 787′s upper wing join area that led to last month’s first flight postponement and will release a new schedule for the flight [...]

AirTran posts $78.4 million profit, confident of full year in black

AirTran Airways parent AirTran Holdings reported a second-quarter net profit of $78.4 million, reversed from a net loss of $14.8 million in the year-ago period, and projected it will maintain profitability in the second half of 2009 despite the poor economic environment.

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Allegiant’s second-quarter profit soars more than ninefold

Allegiant Air parent Allegiant Travel Co. continued to defy the shrinking economy during the second quarter, launching 20 new routes and posting a net profit of $23.9 million that compared to earnings of just $2.6 million in the corresponding 2008 period.

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Smaller ExpressJet reports narrowed second-quarter loss

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Niki demands more traffic rights to Eastern Europe

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Ryanair says customers support standing up

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ODA Approval Goes To StandardAero

StandardAero has received Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) at its Springfield, Ill. location. The designation allows the company to approve design data, tests and analysis as well as make a finding of compliance to the regulations allowing them to sign an STC on behalf of the FAA for aircraft alterations. StandardAero Springfield [...]

Boeing Decides on 787 Fix, but Still Can’t Commit to Timetable

Boeing has identified a remedy to the 787 Dreamliner’s wing-to-side-of-body stress problem the company revealed last month, but engineers haven’t yet decided on an approach to implementing the plan, chairman, president and CEO Jim McNerney said this morning during the company’s second-quarter earnings call.

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FAA To Reconsider Air Tour Operator Maintenance

The FAA has issued a Notice of New Task Assignment for the Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC) to develop maintenance requirements for aircraft used in commercial air-tour operations as covered in 14 CFR Part 136–Commercial Air Tours and National Parks Air Tour Management. The FAA has published the notice to solicit membership for a new [...]

EASA Issues ATR 42/72 Airworthiness Directive

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) for ATR cockpit windows. AD Number 2009-0159-E requires inspection and, if necessary, replacement of  cockpit forward-side windows on ATR models 42-200, 42-300, 42-320, 42-400 and 42-500, and 72-101, 72-102, 72-201, 72-202, 72-211, 72-212 and 72-212A equipped with PPG Aerospace glass windows. The [...]