Bombardier Aerospace has announced its orders and delivery tallies for its commercial and business aircraft production lines for the 2013 calendar year. The company’s business aircraft lines delivered a total of 180 aircraft in 2013, an increase of just one aircraft over 2012, comprising 29 Learjets, 89 Challengers, and 62 Global series aircraft. Net orders
Following on from our story of January 13, Defence has confirmed that a Boeing Defence Australia led team has been selected as the preferred tenderer for the ADF’s AIR 9000 Phase 7 Helicopter Aircrew Training System (HATS) project. In a written statement to Australian Aviation’s sister publication, DIAR by ADBR, a Defence spokesman said “This
Newcastle Airport has announced 1,198,312 passengers used its facilities in 2013, an increase of 16,683 passengers or 1.4 per cent over the previous year. The airport attributes the growth to increased services from Jetstar to the Gold Coast, as well as additional services from Virgin Australia to and from Brisbane. But these were partially offset
Sikorsky has announced it delivered the first fully-configured S-76D to the Bristow Group in late 2013. The new helicopter is the first of 26 S-76Ds Bristow has on order for offshore support missions. The S-76D features new P&WC PW210S engines, the Thales TopDeck integrated avionics system and four-axis autopilot, a health and usage monitoring system
The first group of manufacturing personnel destined to work at Airbus’s new Mobile Alabama commercial final assembly line (FAL) commenced training at Hamburg in Germany on January 16. The group, comprising manufacturing engineers, station managers and a quality manager will initially work alongside their counterparts on the A320 line in Hamburg to become familiar with
NH Industries will pay the New Zealand government compensation for the late delivery of the nine NH 90s it has on order, according to a report in the New Zealand Herald. New Zealand ordered eight operational aircraft and one spare for delivery between November 2009 and June 2011 to replace its UH-1H Iroquois helicopters.
