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Ahead of officially opening its order book for the new PC-24 business jet, Pilatus has received a letter of intent from Abu Dhabi-based Falcon Aviation Services in what potentially sees Pilatus with its launch customer. Launched in May this year, the PC-24 is Pilatus’s first foray into the jet market. Roll-out of the new design

The ADF’s Heron remotely piloted aircraft has achieved 20,000 flying hours during operations in Afghanistan. The Heron Detachment, based at Kandahar Air Field, is made up of personnel from the three Services and is supported by contractors and locally-engaged employees. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue

The war of words between Virgin Australia and Qantas over the former’s $350 rights issue has taken a new turn with Virgin Australia chairman Neil Chatfield revealing today that his company is considering legal action against Qantas. “While I am not going to waste any more of our shareholders’ time today by giving their [Qantas’s]

The third and final 787-9 flight test aircraft, and the first to be powered by General Electric GEnx engines, has made its first flight. Flight test aircraft ZB021 took off from Paine Field, Everett at 12:15 pm local time on Tuesday before landing 2 hours and 44 minutes later at Seattle’s Boeing Field. Boeing says

  Fiji Airways has retired its last 747-400 following the delivery of its third A330-200 earlier this month. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or Email Password Forgot password? Keep me signed in on this device. If

Iraqi Airways has become the latest airline to order Bombardier’s new CSeries regional jet, with the signing at the Dubai airshow of a letter of intent for five CS300s and options on 11 more. Iraqi Airways operates six CRJ900 NextGen jets, which it using to progressively increase its regional network. The CS300s will be used