Sukhoi Civil Aircraft has announced that the fourth prototype Sukhoi SuperJet 100, MSN 95005, has made its first flight. The aircraft, which features a number of refinements and modifications to match the production standard SSJ100, was captained by Sukhoi Civil Aircraft’s test pilots Sergey Korostiev and Alexander Ivanov. During a 2 hour and 45 minute
Lufthansa Technik has announced a new three year agreement with Virgin Blue for inspection and replacement of variable stator vane bushings on the airline group’s fleet of CFM56-7B engines which power its Boeing 737NGs. The work will be carried out at its Melbourne subsidiary LTQ Engineering, which is a joint venture between Lufthansa Technik and
Boeing announced on February 2 that Ken Morton, who is currently director of communications for Australia and New Zealand, will assume responsibility for company communications across the wider Asia Pacific region from March 1. Morton will succeed Mark Hooper who will return to Seattle from Hong Kong to take up a senior role within Boeing
Hawker Pacific announced on February 4 that it has been selected by Dassault to provide support for Asian Falcon 7X customers. “Hawker Pacific’s Singapore Service Centre now carries Dassault Falcon jet accreditation to perform major inspections across multiple models and holds a strategic inventory valued at over US$1.5 million on site to support the complete
Airbus has completed cold weather testing of the A330-200F in Iqaluit, northern Canada. The aircraft was subjected to ‘cold soak’ temperatures down to -30 deg C externally and -27 deg C internally, Airbus says.
A criminal trial over the deaths of 113 people onboard an Air France Concorde which crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris-Charles De Gaulle airport on July 25 2000 started on February 2 in the town of Pontoise, near Paris. The crash occurred after a titanium strip from a Continental DC-10 departing CDG fell onto the
