Category: Civil Aviation

The Beechcraft Corporation has celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first flight of its venerable King Air turboprop. The first flight was conducted on January 20 1964 by a Model 90, and that event was commemorated in 2014 by a three-ship pass of three current model King Airs – a C90GTx, a 250, and a

Bombardier Aerospace has announced its orders and delivery tallies for its commercial and business aircraft production lines for the 2013 calendar year. The company’s business aircraft lines delivered a total of 180 aircraft in 2013, an increase of just one aircraft over 2012, comprising 29 Learjets, 89 Challengers, and 62 Global series aircraft. Net orders

Boeing has initiated a collaboration with Etihad Airways, Takreer, Total and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi on an initiative to support a sustainable aviation biofuel industry in the UAE. The project – BIOjet Abu Dhabi: Flight Path to Sustainability – will develop a comprehensive framework for a UAE biofuel supply

Bombardier’s all-new CSeries narrowbody airliner will now not enter serve until the second half of 2015. At the time of the CSeries first flight, on September 16 last year, Bombardier was planning on first deliveries about 12 months later,  but it said in a statement released on Thursday that: “The flight test phase will require