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IndustryRumania has acquired 21 Lockheed Martin radars
Bucharest, Rumania - Signed today the agreement
After have signed today an agreement with the American Lockheed Martin, Rumania acquires for its air forces 21 radars for small and average heights. "Between the 2004 and 2008 the radars will be delivered... more
IndustryRaytheon signs a contract of the value of USD 45m with Norwegian armed forces
Los Angeles, Usa - The contract regards the anti-missile system of the North European country
Thales Raytheon System (division of Raytheon, one of the greatest defense industries in the world) has signed with the Norwegian armed forces a contract of the value of USD 45m. The contracts concerns... more
IndustrySmiths to supply a new feature for A-380
Michigan, Usa - It's a USD 30m order
Smiths Aerospace, a company leader in the electronic and informatic system utilities in the field of the aeronautic both civilian and military, has been chosen by Airbus for the installation of technologies... more
IndustryBoeing and Raytheon sign a record contract for the space shield
Washington, Usa - It has a value of USD 747,5m
In the field of the program called "Space shield", two of the world's largest firms of the defense area, Boeing and Raytheon, have signed a contract of the value of USD 747,5m regarding a radar to be put... more
IndustryGreece to sign a contract for 12 C-27J (2): the technical features of the aircraft
Rome, Italy - Also the Italian Air Force has chosen 12
If it is needed an efficient cargo plane and economic at the same time it is difficult not to watch to the C-27J, an aircraft created by Alenia Aeronautica and Lockheed Martin for missions of medium level.... more
IndustryGood data for Rolls Royce "CorporateCare" program
Chantilly, Usa – Figures have been supplied by the Vicepresident customer service
"Our customers said they wanted an inclusive service, so we introduced CorporateCare in mid-2002 with great success. We designed CorporateCare to ensure that provides for not just engine maintenance but... more
IndustryGreece to sign a contract for 12 C-27J
Athens, Greece - Italian Air Force has chosen it last June
Tomorrow there'll be also the president of Alenia Aeronautica (Finmeccanica group), Giorgio Zappa, for the signature of the EUR 297m contract for the supply, to the Greek government, of 12 cargo planes... more
IndustryA new British airspace surveillance
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom – Eads will replace a part of the UK’s national radar
"This order opens up new business opportunities and will enable us to bring our technological skills into this special field of civil air traffic control radar system". This is the statement of Stefan... more
IndustryRockwell Collins Integration Inc. awarded of a over 5 USDm contract
USA
Rockwell Collins Integration Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is being awarded a firm-fixed-price contract in the amount of $5,103,322 for procurement of 68 horizontal situation indicators used on the C-130 aircraft.... more
IndustryAt the annual conference on commercial aerospace and defense will participate also a delegate of Boeing Corporation
Chicago, Usa - The delegate will be the vice president of commercial airplanes business strategies and marketing division
Nicole Piasecki, vice President of the commercial airplanes business startegies and marketing of Boeing Corporation, will be the delegate of the firm at the conference, arrived to its 10th edition, about... more
IndustryLockheed Martin obliged to pay USD 1,4m to Us tax office
Washington, Usa - The payback is tied to an alleged procurement fraud of 1992 made by Loral
Lockheed Martin, one of the greatest firms of the defense area in the United States will be obliged to pay USD 1,4m to the Us tax office because of a fraud made in 1992 by Loral that preceeded it in the... more
IndustryLockheed Martin is the firm that has signed more contracts in the defense area during 2002
Washington, Usa - Exceeded Boeing and Northrop
Following some figures coming from the Pentagon, the Ministry of Defense of the United States, the society that has signed more contracts in the defense area in the United States is Lockheed Martin, that... more
IndustryNorthwest Airlines buys 10 new A-330/200
Washington, Usa - The aircraft will become operative by next summer
The North American air carrier Northwest Airlines has bought 10 new aircraft A-330/200 built by the European consortium Airbus. The Us carrier will be the first to use these aircraft to make more rational... more
IndustryTurbomeca in Quebec
Bordes, France – A new site in Mirabel
"Turbomeca Canada will be our 10th subsidiary worldwide. As Turbomeca’s Engine Corporation (TEC) in the Usa, TMC is an extension of Turbomeca SA and represents a major step forward in placing OEM services a... more
IndustryBell-Boeing Joint Program Office awarded of a over 20 USDm contract
USA
Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office, Patuxent River, Md., is being awarded an estimated $20,374,266 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee contract (N00019-00-C-0183) with an for the... more
IndustrySikorsky Aircraft Corp. awarded of a over 7 USDm contract
USA
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., was awarded a $7,216,230 firm-fixed-price contract for 3 Elbit "B" Kits with installation on the UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopters, support package, spares, and contractor... more
IndustryRaytheon Co. awarded of a near 11 USDm contract
USA
Raytheon Co., Tucson, Ariz., was awarded a $10,951,875 modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for 105 TOW 2A Missiles and 425 TOW 2A Practice Missiles on Jan. 21, 2003. Work will be performed in... more
IndustryNorthrop Grumman awarded of a near 6 USDm contract
USA
Northrop Grumman Corp., Field Support Services, Inc., Jacksonville, Fla., is being awarded a $5,714,000 ceiling-priced order against a previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00019-00-G-0120) for... more
Industry"The contract with Boeing does not damage Airbus"
Rome, Italy - Declaration of Finmeccanica's President, Pier Francesco Guarguaglini
Regarding the cooperation contract signed yesterday with Boeing Corporation (news already published by AVIONEWS) Finmeccanica President, Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, has declared: "We do not think that... more
IndustryBvr systems delivers to Israeli armed forces a new training simulator
Jerusalem, Israel - It is destinated to the operational divisions of Israeli Air Force
The Israeli aeronautical industry Bvr systems has delivered to Israeli Air Force (IAF) a new training simulator called AMOS that will be used to form the new pilots of Israeli aviation. The cooperation... more
IndustryAtr presents good figures in 2002
Paris, France - Positive data in spite of the crisis
The European consortium Atr (Avions de Transport Régional) has presented positive figures regarding the balance for the year 2002 in spite of the international crisis of the air transportation market. Particularly... more
IndustryLockheed Martin reduces the losses in the last three months 2002
Washington, Usa - They amount to USD 347m
Lockheed Martin, the firm that contends to Raytheon the control of the Defense industry in the United States, has announced that in the last three months 2002 has registered a loss equal to USD 347m. The... more
IndustryGrowing incomes for Raytheon in the last three months 2002
Washington, Usa - It grows also the value of the shares at the Stock Exchange
Raytheon Industries, the giant of the defense industry in the United States, producer also of Stinger and Tomahawk rockets, communicates that, in the total balance the incomes for the last three months... more
IndustryPositive balance for General Dynamics for the whole year 2002
Washington, Usa - Good also the results for the last quarter of the year
General Dynamics has presented positive figures for the last quarter of 2002, during which has raised the divisional quote to USD 1,33 for each share. Moreover for the part regarding the total budget,... more
IndustryAirbus, new market leader, to raise the prices
Tolouse, France - A difficult year but, according to forecast, 300 aircraft to be delivered
"We have to assume the responsability of the leader, which is to set the trend. With over 50 percent of the market, we do believe our aircraft have value and we can charge little bit more for them", declared... more
IndustryGeneral Electric Aircraft Engines awarded of a over 7 USDm contract
USA
General Electric Aircraft Engines, West Lynn, Mass., is being awarded a $7,311,602 delivery order under a previously awarded contract (N00383-01-D-023M) for repair of F404 HPT rotor component utilized... more
IndustryBoeing awarded an order to upgrade Navy's E-6s
Seattle, Usa - The operation to involve 15 planes
American Navy has delegated Boeing for the activity of upgrading of its fleet of E-6 Mercury in order to change the cockpit instrumentation from analog to digital. The contract has a value of USD 150m... more
IndustryBombardier sells to Petroleum Air Services a 50-seated Q300
Toronto, Canada - The contract signed today values USD 14,8m
Bombardier Aerospace has announced that the Egyptian firm, Petroleum Air Services, has bought a 50-seated Q300 aircraft. The purchase is to be seen in the field of the rising of the fleet of firm, that... more
IndustrySikorsky awarded an Usd 311m contract
Stratford, Usa - A profit-bearing cooperation also for the Army
An Usd 311m contract for 5 years has been signed between Sikorsky and the American Army in order to supply the parts for more than 2000 Uh-60 Black Hawks which the Us military force has available. "We're... more
IndustryNew Piper lays off 150 employees more: it's halved the organigram in one year
Palm Beach, Usa - Wrong esteem and engine malfunctioning the main causes
It continues to be a bad moment also for New Piper, underlined with blows of lay-offs proportioned to the lessening of orders that have characterized the last 18 months of the company: from the 400 aircraft... more
IndustryFinmeccanica announces strategic partnership with Boeing
Rome, Italy - Within today will be announced the details
Italian industry Finmeccanica and the giant of aeronautical and aerospace industry in the United States, Boeing Corporation, will announce today the signature of a strategic partnership between the two... more
IndustryBoeing Co awarded of a over 17 USDm contract
USA
The Boeing Co., Fort Walton Beach, Fla., is being awarded a $17,392,477 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, time and material contract to provide for induction of aircraft and manufacturing preparation... more
IndustryBae reveals a proposal for a new security system
London, Great Britain - The equipment will concern British armed forces
Bae (British Aerospace Systems) has presented to Great Britain's Ministry of Defence a proposal tied to a new security system to be used for the armed forces of Her Majesty. The system will be called... more
IndustryAlso Malaysia Airlines bets on A-380/800
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - The planes to be delivered in 2007
Airbus continues to receive orders for the A-380/800 555-seats superjumbo whose deliveries would have to begin in 2006-2007: they are 103 aircraft already reserved by 10 airlines. A plan that has collected... more
IndustryBoeing's aerospace division will supply a new security system to Nasa
Saint Louis, Usa - The system will concern the safety of the crew
The Us giant of the aeronautical and aerospace industry, Boeing Corporation, has signed a contract for the supply of a new security system for the safety of the crews of the new spacecraft that will take... more
IndustryBoeing will present its earnings of the third quarter 2002 on the next January 30
Chicago, Usa - The presentation will be made on its website
Boeing, the Us giant of the aeronautical industry, will present on its website the datas about the earnings of the last quarter 2002 on the next January at 7:30 local time of the Central-Eastern United... more
IndustryEmbraer: good results and backlog
Brasilia, Brasil – Alitalia’s order deliveries are expected to begin in 2003
Embraer has comunicated datas of the fourth quarter 2002 and full year 2002 jet deliveries for its customers. In 2002 Embraer delivered 131 aircraft, compared with the 132 deliveries expected for 2002.... more
IndustryIrish Army buys new military aircraft
Dublin, Ireland - They are 8 Pilatus training aircraft
Irish armed forces communicate that they have bought 8 Pilatus PC-9 Advanced Turbo Trainer for a value of CHF 70m. The aircraft will be operative in the equipment of the Irish Army by the second half... more
IndustryBoeing continues to lay off 620 employees back home
Seattle, Usa - No recovery is expected in short time
New year but old strategy, the Boeing situation could be synthetized so that it has been decided, in these days, to continue with job cuts in order to face the critical economic situation. Indeed the... more
IndustryUnited Technologies Corp. awarded of a over 61 USDm contract
USA
United Technologies Corp., East Hartford, Conn., is being awarded a $61,691,586 fixed-price with economic-price adjustment contract modification to provide for the purchase of 11 F117-PW-100 spare engines... more
IndustryIlyushin Finance to supply aircraft to Atlant-Soyuz
Moscow, Russia - The first to come two Il-96/400Ts
Some important awakening signs are coming just from Russia, for the field of the aeronautic has always been its point of strenght. Therefore Ilyushin Finance, one of the greatest aircraft industries... more
IndustryGeneral Electric Co awarded of a over 5 USDm contract
USA
General Electric Co., Lynn, Mass., is being awarded a $5,377,251 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-priced contract (N00019-99-C-1175) for the engineering effort in support of configuration... more
IndustryPurdy Corp awarded of a over 6 USDm contract
USA
The Purdy Corp., Manchester, Conn., was awarded a $6,314,316.40 firm-fixed-price contract for 40 transmissions applicable to the AH-64 Helicopter on Jan. 15, 2003. Work will be performed in Manchester... more
IndustryParker Aerospace awarded of a over 15 USDm contract
USA
Parker Aerospace, Irvine, Calif., is being awarded a delivery order amount of $15,006,390.72 as part of a $15,006,390.72 firm-fixed-price contract for support of the Apache (AH-64), Blackhawk (UH-60),... more
IndustryUnited Technologies Corp awarded of a over 8 USDm contract
USA
United Technologies Corp., East Hartford, Conn., is being awarded a $8,444,622.82 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for 124 fan cases each, applicable to F-100-PW-200 engine. Total funds have been... more
IndustryMcDonnell Douglas Corp., awarded of a 14 USDm contract
USA
McDonnell Douglas Corp., St. Louis, is being awarded a $14,000,000 ceiling-priced order against a previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00019-97-G-0037) for the procurement of eight low-rate initial... more
IndustryLockheed Martin Missile awarded of a near 130 USDm contract
USA
Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control, Orlando, Fla., was awarded a delivery order amount of $129,728,800 as part of an $180,005,028 firm-fixed-price contract for multiple spares for Target Acquisition... more
IndustryToo many incidents in the English nuclear plants
London, UK - But the company assured no individual had reported any consequences
The safety levels in an industrial plant of atomic weapons in Great Britain, whose locality cannot be told for obvious reasons of security, would be under those considered as minimums. In the factory,... more
IndustryM-101T receives its first certifications, also a brief technical sheet
Moscow, Russia - To be the new executive-jet for the Russian businessmen
After its first flight on March 31, 1995, the M-101T, known also with the name of Gzhel, has received the essential certifications to attest the airworthiness released by the Russian authorities just yesterday.... more
IndustryAirbus has sold more aircraft than Boeing in 2002
Paris, France - The European constructor has delivered more than 300 aircraft
Airbus has delivered in 2002 an higher number of aircraft if confronted with the aircraft to the concurring American firm Boeing. The official figures say that Airbus has sold 303 aircraft respect to... more