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The UK MoD has awarded several contracts to AgustaWestland totalling £760m (A$1.24bn) for the maintenance, conversion and upgrade of its Apache AH1 attack helicopters and Merlin transport helicopters. The Apache force Integrated Operational Support (IOS) contract will see AW provide support and maintenance services to the UK’s Apache fleet from April 1 2014 to March

Airbus Helicopters says it has overcome development and industrialisation issues with the NH90 helicopter program and plans to ramp up production of the program this year. Speaking at the company’s 2013 results conference on January 28, company CEO Guillaume Faury said NH Industries “has now overcome the difficulties of the beginning of the program” and

Boeing has painted a 747-8F in the colours of the Seattle Seahawks NFL team which is playing in Super Bowl XLVIII against the Denver Broncos on February 2. The aircraft is owned by Boeing and is currently being used as part of the flight test program, and has been specially painted in a white fuselage

As expected, General Peter Cosgrove has stepped down from his position as a Non-Executive Director of the Qantas Board as he prepares to take up his position of Governor-General of Australia. “We congratulate Peter on his appointment as Australia’s next Governor-General,” Qantas Chairman Leigh Clifford said in a statement. “Australia is indeed fortunate to have a

The Department of Infrastructure & Regional Development’s Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics has released its report into Domestic Aviation Activity November 2013. The report shows that 4,860,000 passengers were carried on Australia’s RPT network in November 2013, about 2.1 per cent fewer than the 4,970,000 that were carried in the same month the

Northrop Grumman has delivered the 100th set of airborne electronic attack (AEA) components to the US Navy for installation on in-production EA-18G Growlers. The AEA kit features wing tip pods and gun bay pallets, specialised antennas and receivers, the AN/ALQ-218 antenna/tactical jamming system receiver, and the AN/ALQ-227 communication countermeasures set/electronic attack unit. This content is