16 October 2011
Kenya Airways to lease two Boeing 777-300 ER Aircraft
Kenya Airways has signed a 12-year lease agreement with General Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) for two Boeing 777-300 Extended Range (ER) aircraft.
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16 October 2011
Pratt & Whitney buys Rolls-Royce stake in IAE
Pratt & Whitney will pay $1.5bn to acquire Rolls-Royce Group's stake in International Aero Engines (IAE), a producer of engines for the Airbus A320 plane family.
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16 October 2011
CAE to deliver four Level D flight simulators
CAE has signed a C$55m ($53.7m) contract to deliver four Level D full-flight simulators (FFS) to Cathay Pacific Airways, Asian Aviation Centre of Excellence and Lufthansa Flight Training.
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16 October 2011
ISRO launches four satellites on PSLV-C18
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched four satellites, named Megha-Tropiques satellite, VesselSat-1, Jugnu and SRMSat, on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C18 (PSLV-C18) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
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13 October 2011
Minsheng Financial orders 20 Falcon business jets from Dassault
Minsheng Financial Leasing has signed a memorandum of understanding to buy 20 Falcon business jets from Dassault Falcon, including ten Falcon 7X and ten Falcon 2000S aircraft.
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13 October 2011
Eclipse Aerospace to restart production of 550 very light jets
Eclipse Aerospace is planning to restart the production of the Eclipse 550, a new twin-engine jet model in the Eclipse jet family.
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13 October 2011
Helistar to buy three EC145 helicopters from Eurocopter
Colombia-based Helistar has signed an agreement with Eurocopter Group subsidiary Eurocopter de Mexico to buy three EC145 helicopters.
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13 October 2011
Cessna Aircraft unveils Citation Latitude business aircraft
Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron company, has unveiled the new Citation Latitude mid-size business jet worth $14.9m.
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12 October 2011
Bombardier selects seven suppliers for its Global 7000-8000 jet development
Bombardier has selected seven new suppliers to design and manufacture key systems for its Global 7000 and Global 8000 jet programme.
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12 October 2011
Minsheng Financial orders 13 Legacy 650 jets from Embraer
Minsheng Financial Leasing Company has signed firm orders for 13 Legacy 650 executive jets from Embraer for $393m following a memorandum of understanding signed in July 2011 for 20 jets.