Category: Civil Aviation

Airbus CEO Tom Enders said that he is “surprised and disappointed” by the announcement by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that it will delay a report into alleged subsidies received by Boeing which was filed in 2004 as a countersuit to a similar case filed by the US against EU aid given to Airbus. The

Boeing delivered 114 commercial aircraft during the second quarter of 2010, comprised of 95 737NGs, 16 777s and three 767s. The airframer expects to deliver between 460 and 465 aircraft this year. Want to see more stories from trusted news sources? Make Australian Aviation a preferred news source on Google. Click here to add Australian

Boeing Aerostructures Australia (BAA) has announced that it has sold some surplus heavy machinery to the Mahindra Group, clarifying media reports that it had sold its Fisherman’s Bend plant near Melbourne to the Indian conglomerate. “This equipment has not been needed at Fishermans Bend since we exited the sheet metal business some 18 months ago,”

Spirit AeroSystems and Airbus officially opened a new 46,450m2 manufacturing plant on July 1 in Kinston, North Carolina, which is designing and will manufacture composite centre fuselage upper and lower shells and front wing spars for the Airbus A350 XWB. Design work for the components has been underway for approximately two years, with manufacturing set