Category: Business Aviation

Airbus has completed the first flight test of its A321neo narrowbody powered by CFM Leap-1A engines. The maiden flight with the A321neo (new engine option), which is the largest of Airbus’s A320 family of single-aisle aircraft, took off from Finkenwerder Airport near Hamburg on February 9 (European time). This content is available exclusively to Australian

Gulfstream’s newest business jet the G500 is making further progress towards certification in 2017 with the completion of flutter testing as part of the aircraft’s flight test program. The first G500 test aircraft, T1, has flown more than 50 missions and clocked up about 320 since its first flight in May 2015. Since then, the

The fourth iteration of Boeing’s 737, the 737 MAX, has completed its first flight, marking the commencement of a four aircraft flight test campaign. The first 737 MAX development aircraft, 737 MAX 8 N8701Q Spirit of Renton, took off from Boeing’s Renton, Washington State site (where all 737s are built) at 9:46am local time on Friday with 737 MAX

Lufthansa has taken delivery of the first customer Airbus A320neo during a low-key ceremony in Hamburg on January 20, with plans to place the aircraft into service just days later on January 24. That first revenue flight, planned for Frankfurt to Hamburg next Sunday, will also see the commercial debut of Pratt & Whitney’s PW1100G geared turbofan,