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IndustryTurbomeca Asia Pacific: a new regional office in Malaysia
Singapore, Republic of Singapore - During the Police Air Show the industry announced it
During the Police Air Show (24-26 May, Beijing, China), Turbomeca announced that Turbomeca Asia Pacific has decided to open a Regional Office in Malaysia and upgraded its Regional Office in the Philippines.... more
IndustryTurin's Major asked to Finmeccanica to re-launch the aerospace city's industry
Turin, Italy - The Italian Industry prefers to invest in Southern Italy
Turin major Chiamparino said to be disposed to make possible that the municipality bought out the closed facilities of Finmeccanica in the city, in the areas of which it should have to pass the new city... more
IndustryBell-Boeing Joint Program Office awarded of a over 9 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the V-22
Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office, Patuxent River, Md. , is being awarded a $9,633,457 delivery order against a previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00019-04-G-0007) for engineering and technical... more
IndustrySikorsky Aircraft Corp. awarded of a over 40 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the MH-60R helicopters
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., was awarded on May 18, 2006, a $40,163,297 modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for advance procurement funding for the MH-60R Helicopters. Work will... more
IndustryAt the goal the agreement between Finmeccanica and Sukhoi
Rome, Italy - It was announced by the Italian industry's responsible of the Aerospace and Defense sectors Giorgio Zappa
The negotiation for the agreement between Finmeccanica and Sukhoi for the construction of the new Russian regional jet are in the final phase (see for details AVIONEWS 1, 2 and 3). Giorgio Zappa, Director... more
IndustryBoeing delivered final 717s and concluded commercial production in California
Long Beach, Usa - More than 15,000 airplanes have been produced in the Long Beach factory
Boeing yesterday delivered its final two 717 airplanes to Midwest Airlines and AirTran Airways in a ceremony before thousands of employees, retirees and dignitaries in Long Beach, Calif. The deliveries... more
IndustryFinmeccanica: shareholders’ assembly approves 2005 annual results and dividend
Rome, Italy - New board of auditors appointed
"The shareholders of Finmeccanica SpA, who met yesterday in Rome, have approved the company’s annual results for 2005 and viewed a presentation of the consolidated figures. The results were positive a... more
IndustryBoeing 787 reached 25 per cent release milestone
Washington, Usa - The model is scheduled for delivery beginning in 2008
Boeing announced last Sunday that it has reached a major milestone in the design of the all-new 787 Dreamliner. The team has completed 25 percent of the releases required for the program. This means that... more
IndustryEADS will close the facility of Merignac
Paris, France - The workers will be not axed
EADS’ Board of Director decided, after a serious examination to close the facility of its subsidiary Sogerma at Merignac. The industry has not the intention to discharge its employs, to whom it was offered a... more
IndustryFinmeccanica more and more indipendent by Italy
Rome, Italy - It is raising the importance of the US and British markets
The international role of Finmeccanica is raising. The Italian industry of aerospace and defense sector will decrease progressively its dependence by Italy bringing it to the 40% in 2008, it was of the... more
IndustryA new logo for Finmeccanica
Rome, Italy - The industry wants to raise more and more on the international field
On the occasion of the assembly convoked also the approve the budget, the president and ceo of Finmeccanica, Pierfrancesco Guarguaglini, announced that since next May 25 the companies of the aerospace... more
IndustryUnited Technologies Corp. awarded of a over 16 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the F-15/16 aircraft
United Technologies Corp, Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Group, East Hartford, Conn., is being awarded a $16,588,344 contract. This effort is for contractor engineering technical services in support of the... more
IndustryGeneral Electric Aircraft Engines awarded of a over 15 USDm order
Washington, Usa - For the T-64 engine on the H-53 aircraft
General Electric Aircraft Engines, Lynn, Mass, is being awarded $15,475,298 for a priced order (GB25) under a basic ordering agreement (FA8104-05-G-0003) for repair of various quantities of repairable... more
IndustryFour new clients for Galileo Italia
Rome, Italy - They are Turkish Airlines, Air Seychelles, Jet Airlines and Lot Polish Airlines
Galileo Italia has recently increased the number of its clients. Contracts have in fact been signed, for the supply of the e-ticketing with Turkish Airlines, Air Seychelles, Jet Airlines and Lot Polish... more
IndustryDatamat' managers want to buy by Finmeccanica the bank-finance-insurance sector
Rome, Italy - The sector has an annual turnover of EUR 40 million
The managers of Datamat, a Roman company of Defense and aerospace communication purchased last year by Finmeccanica (see for details AVIONEWS), offered to the group leader to buy the bank-finance-insurance... more
IndustryUnited Technologies Corp. awarded of a 5 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For 40 F-119 engines, in support of the F-22 aircraft
United Technologies Corp., East Hartford, Conn., is being awarded a $5,000,000 firm fixed price contract. This action provides for advanced procurement for 40 F119 engines, in support of the F-22 aircraft.... more
IndustryLynuxWorks' Real-Time Operating System chosen for the F-35
Washington, USA - The system will guarantee an easy governability of the aircraft
LynuxWorks today announced that L-3 Communications Display Systems has chosen its Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) to power a portion of the Panoramic Cockpit Display (PCD) subsystem for the Lockheed... more
Industry"AIVA" is the name of the first airplane with no joints and wires
Minho, Portugal - It is a prototype assembled with fly-by-wireless technology
A group of researches from Minho University, Portugal, developed an ultralight robot-aircraft prototype, which was built without mechanical joints or wires: all the connections among navigation systems,... more
IndustryBoeing has celebrated the delivery of the 600th airplane to ILFC
Seattle, Usa - It has been leased to Shanghai Airlines
The Boeing Company, in conjunction with International Lease Finance Corp. (ILFC), held delivery ceremonies last Wednesday with Shanghai Airlines for the airline’s newest Next-Generation 737-800. The a... more
IndustryThe A-380 arrives Heathrow for the first time
London, United Kingdom - The Pier 6 of Terminal 3 was expressly built for this huge aircraft
The new Airbus A-380 touched English ground for the first time. The largest passenger aircraft in the world, which can carry from 555 up to 800 people, took off yesterday afternoon from "ILA 2006 Berlin... more
IndustryNorthrop Grumman Systems Corp. awarded of a over 22 USDm order
Washington, Usa - For the EA-6B aircraft
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Bethpage, N.Y., is being awarded a $ 22,131,688 firm-fixed-price delivery order against a previously awarded indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract (N00019-06-D-0014)... more
IndustryBoeing to Install Class 3 Electronic Flight Bags on New Jet Airways 777-300ERs
Seattle, Usa - Delivery of the planes is set to begin in early 2007
Boeing and Jet Airways of Mumbai, India, yesterday announced an order to install Boeing’s Class 3 Electronic Flight Bag on 10 new 777-300ERs. Delivery of the planes is set to begin in early 2007. Jet A... more
IndustryEADS: Finmeccanica will not join Airbus
Munich, Germany - French-Spanish-German consortium Ceo said it to "Il Giornale"
EADS is getting ready to purchase the Airbus’ 20% stock owned by BAE Systems, the British industry that last month declared to be not interested to continue the cooperation in the European consortium. F... more
IndustryFinmeccanica will not reduce Elsag-Datamat's personnel
Rome, Italy - It was made known in a statement by Guarguaglini's group
Finmeccanica made known yesterday through a statement that it has not in program any jobs’ cut, denying in this way FIOM-CGIL (an Italian union) which talked about 1000 workers of Elsag-Datamat (a company o... more
IndustrySikorsky Aircraft Corp. awarded of a over 6 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the MH-60S
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., is being awarded a $6,295,459 firm-fixed-price order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-03-G-0003) for non-recurring engineering required... more
IndustryAVIONEWS special. "ILA 2006 Berlin Air Show" (10): ASD: 2005 was a very good year for European aerospace industry
Berlin, Germany - President Tom Enders at the annual press conference
At the annual press conference held in Berlin today, ASD (AeroSpace and Defence Industry Association of Europe) President, Tom Enders, has presented the overall situation of aerospace and defense industry... more
IndustryBoeing names Smiths Aerospace as supplier for 747-8 Program
Seattle, Usa - For the thrust reverser actuator system
The Boeing Company today announced the selection of Smiths Aerospace to supply the thrust reverser actuator system (TRAS) for the new Boeing 747-8 airplane. The London-based supplier will design a TRAS... more
IndustryIt could be necessary an help of the European Government to modify the A-350
Munich, Germany - The decision about the aircraft's modifications will be taken within June
EADS is completing the plan to modify the A-350, the aircraft that in the last months received critics by many carriers because the think it will not able to be a real competitor for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner,... more
IndustryEmbraer signed a five-year contract with Nigerian State
São José dos Campos, Brazil - Rivers State government of Nigeria operates one Legacy 600
The Rivers State government of Nigeria has signed a product support contract with Embraer to provide maintenance support for its Legacy 600 jet, which it has owned since in June 2005. The five-year agreement... more
IndustryATR sign a contract with Ecuatorial Guinea
Toulouse, France - For three aircraft, one ATR-42/500 and two ATR-72/500
The regional aircraft manufacturer ATR and the Government of Ecuatorial Guinea have signed today a deal for 3 new ATR aircraft (1 ATR-42/500 and 2 ATR-72/500). The deal has been signed in the ATR Headquarters... more
IndustryGalileo Avionica involved in the "Prisma" robot satellites development
Rome, Italy - They to be put into orbit by 2008
"Galileo Avionica is involved in the Swedish project ’Prisma Rendezvous Robots’ which plans for a principal satellite, and a smaller ’target’ one, to be put into orbit by 2008. The two satellites will ca... more
IndustryEADS' 2006 first quarter good
Munich, Germany - Revenue increased of the 30% respect the same period of the last year
EADS, the Spanish-French-German consortium of the aerospace and defense sectors, closed the 2006 first quarter with very positive results. The revenue of the industry rose of the 30%, respect the first... more
IndustryBoeing: USD 615m paid to Federal Government as fine
New York, USA - The "Wall Street Journal" wrote that yesterday
Yesterday the "Wall Street Journal" reported Boeing made an agreement with US Government on the payment of a fine in compensation for a corruption and embezzlement event involving the American aeronautic... more
IndustryThales. Ranque: an approach to Finmeccanica would have an industrial meaning
Paris, France - Thales CEO, Denis Ranque, said that in an interview on "La Tribune" newspaper
During an interview on "La Tribune" French newspaper, Denis Ranque, CEO of Thales, the first European group for defense and electronics industry, declared that an approach to Italian Finmeccanica would... more
IndustryLockheed Martin Corp. awarded of a 62 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the F-22 aircraft
Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $62,000,000 firm fixed price & cost plus fixed fee contract modification. This action will increase the current undefinitized contract action... more
IndustryATR will supply 10 aircraft to Aer Arann
Dublin, Ireland - The aircraft chosen by the carrier is the ATR-72-500
Today it was signed an agreement between Irish regional carrier Aer Arann and ATR (an industry owned by Alenia Aeronautica and EADS). The announcement of the agreement was given by the two industry officials... more
IndustryAll B-787 Dreamliners will have a Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine
London, United Kingdom - Choosen as launch propellor for the 787 three versions
Air New Zealand was the first airline to choose Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine for the four Boeing 787/8 (then converted into 787/9) ordered in June 2004. The carrier has been the pacemaker in the whole... more
IndustryEADS closes down Sogerma plant in Merignac
Paris, France - After losses registered by the maintenance branch
European Aerospace and Defense Group EADS has decided to close down the plant in Merignac, near Bordeaux, of its branch Sogerma learned in aerostructures maintenance. EADS Sogerma Services have been affected... more
IndustryLockheed Martin will build Vinasat
Hanoi, Vietnam - The American Group won the order for TLC satellite
America-based Lockheed Martin Commercial Space System won the competitive tender for the building of Vinasat, the first Vietnam’s telecommunications satellite, beating its competitors, i.e. the European c... more
IndustryL3 Communications Vertex Aerospace awarded of a over 5 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the C-12 C/D aircraft
L3 Communications Vertex Aerospace, LLC, Madison, Miss., is being awarded a 5,687,913 firm-fixed-price contract modification. This action provides for Electronic Flight Instrument Systems B-Kits for the... more
IndustryToday Airbus' board of directors to decide about A-350 modifications
Toulouse, France - Clients' critics have been received
Today it should be examinated by Airbus’ board of directors the A-350’s dossier. It seems in fact that European consortium’s officials were persuaded, after the critics received by some clients, that... more
IndustryIs Airbus scheduling the planning of a new aircraft?
Toulouse, France - It will be an 300 seats medium-haul aircraft
There are rumors, spread by anonimous people who are near to Airbus consortium, according to which the European industry should be considering to invest EUR 8 billion (USD 10 Billion) in the planning and... more
IndustryBoeing to deliver first B-787/9 to Air New Zealand
Phoenix, Usa - In December 2010
The Boeing Company will deliver the first 787-9 Dreamliner to Air New Zealand in December 2010. Boeing and ANZ, along with engine-maker Rolls-Royce, held a ceremonial signing today in which ANZ converted... more
IndustryTests on real-dimension cabin and effort tests end successfully for 10,000 flight cycles of A-380 program
Hamburg, Germany - This week two milestones placed for Airbus program
In Hamburg, Germany, Airbus successfully completed the first long ground test of a fully equipped A-380 aircraft cabin. In five-hour testing, 474 passengers and 20 crew members simulated a 15-hour flight... more
IndustryNorthrop Grumman Systems Corp. awarded of a over 49 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the C-17 and C-130 aircraft
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Rolling Meadows, Ill., is being awarded a $49,500,000 indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract. The contract will require delivery of large aircraft infrared countermeasure... more
IndustryAirbus has not yet taken a decision about the modifications of the A-350
Toulouse, France - It was declared by the European consortium
European consortium Airbus made known yesterday that no decision has yet been taken about the A-350’s design change. The declaration of Toulouse industry is the answer to the persistent voices that continue t... more
IndustryEADS purchased French industry Sofrelog
Paris, France - The financial details of the operation are still unknown
Yesterday it was announced by EADS, the French-Spanish-German consortium of the aeronautical, defense and aerospace sectors which owns the 80% of Airbus’ stock, the purchase of French industry Sofrelog, s... more
IndustryAirbus defeated by Boeing in orders but it wins in deliveries
Paris, France - American Boeing prevails in April
The duel between Airbus and Boeing on 2006 leadership momentarily sees American Boeing on top for what concerns orders, but European Airbus wins for what concerns deliveries. In particular Boeing has 35... more
IndustryThe Head of the Strategic Coordination of EADS resigned
Munich, Germany - Gergorin has to prepare his defence against recent allegations
Jean Louis Gergorin, Head of the Strategic Coordination of EADS, resigned today by the duty inside the French-Spanish-German consortium. Gergorin arrived to this decision to be free to manage his time... more
IndustryIt is probable an agreement between Thales and Alcatel
Boulogne, Italy - It was declared by the president of the Italian industry, Guarguaglini
Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, president of Finmeccanica Group, said to be trustful about the achievement of an agreement with Alcatel and Thales to create a pole of defence electronic. "We are no against... more