Category: Civil Aviation

Boeing has announced that it will consolidate its Australian manufacturing operations at Fisherman’s Bend in Victoria, leading to the closing of its Bankstown operations in 2012, resulting in some redundancies. The company says that the decision to close the Bankstown site was driven by the exit from loss-making third-party work and under-utilisation of both the

Giant lessor International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) has delayed delivery of the 10 Airbus A380s it has on order by one year. The company was scheduled to take five of the aircraft in 2013, followed by three the next year and two the year after that, but regulatory filings by the company say that it

Bombardier’s CSeries program has received a significant boost with a firm order from Republic Airways Holdings for 40 CS300s and 40 options, worth over US$6.3bn (A$7.0bn) at list prices if all options are exercised. Republic says a unified brand for its Midwest Airlines and Frontier Airlines operations, to be unveiled later this year, will fly

The third Boeing 787 to fly, test aircraft ZA004, made its first flight on February 24 from Paine Field, Everett, landing three hours later at Boeing Field in Seattle. “Airplane No 4 operated flawlessly today,” Captain Heather Ross, who will be ZA004’s chief pilot, said after landing. “We’ve got a lot of work ahead of