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Textron Aviation has sold 10 Beechcraft King Air 250 turboprops as part of a new order from Babcock Scandinavian Air Ambulance. Textron Aviation Courtesy photo

Textron Aviation logs an order for 11 planes
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OCTOBER 17, 2017 6:54 AM

Textron Aviation has taken an 11-airplane order from an overseas air ambulance operator.

The Wichita-based manufacturer of Beechcraft and Cessna planes said the order from Babcock Scandinavian Air Ambulance calls for 10 King Air 250 turboprops and one Citation Latitude business jet.

Those airplanes will be configured and equipped for use as air ambulances in Norway, Textron said in a news release.



At list prices, the order would be valued at $76 million. The King Air 250 lists for $5.9 million and the Latitude lists for $16.4 million.

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Russia to Fund Development of Il-114 Aircraft and PD-35 Engine Until 2020
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Vladimir Putin specified the further works on the regional Russian airliner Il-114 as one of the top industrial priorities for Russia in coming years.

NOVO-OGARYOVO (Moscow Region) (Sputnik) — The works on production of the Russian Ilyushin Il-114 regional airplanepointed out as well as on the PD-35 advanced engine will be funded not only in 2018, but also in the years of 2019 and 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday.

“As an emergency, we financed these expenses from Rosneftegaz [Russian state company] until 2018, inclusive, while 2019-2020 should be financed from the state budget, I will agree with the Ministry of Finance on that,” Putin said at the meeting with Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov.

The Russian president underlined that the development of Il-114 and

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“We need a regional airliner or otherwise we will always buy everything abroad in this segment. But we need a powerful engine — PD-35. Many projects in aviation [industry] are set to use this engine,” Putin added.


The PD-35 is an advanced engine model for wide-body aircraft. The project is expected to be created with the use of technologies used in the latest PD-14 engines that are planned to be used in the MC-21 airliner

The IL-114 was developed by Ilyushin Design Bureau in the late 1980s for short-haul flights within the Soviet Union. Since then, 20 planes of this type have been manufactured.

Production of the Il-114 was terminated in July 2012 after the Uzbek government decided to change the specialization of the Tashkent Aircraft Plant, where the planes had been manufactured.

As the West imposed sanctions on Moscow in 2014, various sectors of the Russian economy were affected, including agreements on aircraft built and leased abroad. In August 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin identified the Il-114 as the preferred option for domestic aircraft production, particularly with respect to domestic flights.

Ilyushin Il-114 regional airliner has been designed for operations on local routes and is expected to be manufactured in Russia

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Irkut MC-21 Airliner Flies 4500 Km, 6 Hour Non-stop
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The first prototype MC-21-300 aircraft of Irkut Corp, Russia flew from the Irkutsk Aviation Plant to the Flight Research Institute in Zhukovsky near Moscow today covering a distance of 4500 km at an altitude of 10,000 meters non-stop for six hours.

This was the first long distance flight of the MC-21 test aircraft whose flight tests began earlier this year. Further flight tests will continue in Zhukovsky.

Mr Oleg Kononenko, the test pilot and the flight crew commander, noted: “The flight went in standard mode. All aircraft systems operated without failures.”

Mr Yuri Slyusar, the President of United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) and Irkut Corporation said: “Today we open the new milestone of MC-21 program. Ahead, there is a continuation of flight and ground tests, introduction of new aircraft samples into test program, certification and initiation of serial production.”

Together with Irkut Corporation, a number of UAC enterprises, our partners from Rostec Corporation, and leading foreign companies participate in the MC-21 program. This program moves our enterprises to the new technological level and ensures the professional growth of our specialists, he added

Mr Oleg Demchenko, the First Vice-President and the Chief Designer of Irkut Corporation said: “Flight tests of MC-21 aircraft performed at Irkutsk Aviation Plant, together with the long flight (from Irkutsk to Ramenskoye) prove declared aircraft characteristics.”

Since today, tests will be continued at Flight Test and Development Facility of Yakovlev Design Bureau. The new hangar with the new up-to-date complex for collection, processing, and storage of information, obtained during flight and ground tests, had been built for MC-21 basing, he said.

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Airbus takes another jab at Boeing with maiden flight of new plane

• The larger version of Airbus's latest A330 is scheduled for certification in mid-2018
• The European aerospace firm claims it will save 14 percent of fuel per seat on the previous version

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Airbus A330neo during maiden flight

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debuted its A330neo Thursday as the new plane took off from Touslouse, France on its maiden test flight.

The aircraft is a medium-to-long-range wide-body jet with a Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 engine. The two versions, the A330-800 and A330-900, can accommodate 257 and 287 passengers respectively.

'Neo' stands for new engine option.


The A330-900 version, which took to the skies this morning, is destined for full certification around the middle of 2018. The slightly smaller A330-800 is set to follow in 2019.
Airbus has claimed the latest A330 will use 14 percent less fuel per seat.

Industry observers suggest the fuel-friendly revision is designed to up competition with the latest version of

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787 Dreamliner.

The A330-800 is built to fly a maximum of 13,900 kilometers while the 900 should cover 12,130 kilometers.

Airbus has said both plane configurations have the ability to take greater payloads, allowing it to be used comfortably on such routes as Kuala Lumpur to London, which is approximately 10,600 kilometers.

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Embraer Announces Delivery of the First E190-E2 in April of 2018
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ATHENS, Greece, Oct. 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Embraer confirmed today April of 2018 as the delivery date of the first E190-E2 to Widerøe, the aircraft's launch operator. The announcement was made at a press briefing in Athens, Greece, during the annual general meeting of the European Regional Airline Association (ERA –

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). Widerøe, the largest regional airline in Scandinavia, will begin revenue service with the aircraft shortly afterwards.

"Since the program was launched, the first half of 2018 has been our target, and now we are making good on this commitment. This was only possible thanks to the excellence of our engineering process due to our unique experience in certifying 12 new aircraft in the last 17 years," said John Slattery, President & CEO, Embraer Commercial Aviation. "From the beginning the E2 program has been, and remains on time, on budget and better than the initial specification. We'll deliver to the market a mature and robust aircraft."

Widerøe signed a contract with Embraer for up to 15 E2 jets consisting of three firm orders for the E190-E2, the first member of the second generation of the E-Jets family, and purchase rights for 12 further E2s. The order has a potential list price value of up to USD 873 million, with all orders being exercised. The airline is configuring the E190-E2s in a comfortable single-class layout with 114 seats.

Stein Nilsen, Chief Executive Officer of Widerøe, said, "We have been working very closely with Embraer teams in order to guarantee a very smooth Entry Into Service. We are eager for the coming months, when will intensify the familiarization with the aircraft, with immersion training for the technical teams, ground handling, flight operations and cabin attendants."

Embraer is the world's leading manufacturer of commercial jets with up to 150 seats. The Company has 100 customers from all over the world operating the ERJ and the E-Jet families of aircraft. For the E-Jets program alone, Embraer has logged more than 1,800 orders and almost 1,400 deliveries, redefining the traditional concept of regional aircraft by operating across a range of business applications.

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A Documentary Narrated by Jean-François Georges © April 2013. The Dassault Falcon brand is part of Dassault Aviation, the only company in the world that designs, manufactures and sells both fighter jets and business aircraft. Dassault Aviation is the world leader in the integration of complex, advanced and innovative airborne systems. We have delivered over 2,100 jets since 1963 and we have a presence in over 80 countries across five continents. Our current production line includes a full line of Falcon business jets, the Rafale fighter jet, and the nEUROn UCAV (Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle). In addition, we have assembly and production plants in France and the US, service facilities on multiple continents and employ a total workforce of over 12,000. Dassault Aviation is a member of Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault, whose annual revenues exceed €9 billion. We are active in business sectors ranging from industrial software to media, real estate to fine wines. Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault has reported a profit every year since its inception.

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The first Tu-214PU-SBUS aircraft was built for the Russian Defense Ministry
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As reported by the spotter, October 14, 2017 in Kazan, the first flight of the first built at the Kazan Aviation Plant named after S.P. Gorbunova (branch of PJSC "Tupolev") for the Ministry of Defense of Russia a special-purpose aircraft-control point Tu-214PU-SBUS (serial number 529, registration number RA-64529). The aircraft is still unpainted, and it is unclear whether it is fully equipped with special equipment.

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The MTA aircraft became the Il-276

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As the newspaper Izvestia reported in an article by Aleksei Ramm and Nikolai Surkov, "Il-276 is waiting in the army." A new military transport aircraft will be able to do without concrete runways, "the Russian Armed Forces are planning to purchase medium-sized IL-276 military transport aircraft. The novelty will be able to transport several combat vehicles or up to hundreds of soldiers at a distance of five to six thousand kilometers. At the same time the IL-276 can do without runways - it easily sits down and takes off from the ordinary ground. The car is created on the basis of the unrealized joint Russian-Indian project of the multifunctional transport aircraft MTA (Multi-role Transport Aircraft).


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The model of the medium military transport plane MTA (MTS) Vladimir Karnozov




According to experts, the military urgently needs IL-276 to replace the fleet of outdated transporters still built in Soviet times. In addition, the novelty can be of interest to foreign buyers, primarily from among the traditional partners of Russia.

As "Izvestia" was told in the main command of the Air and Space Forces, at present the military department is in talks with aircraft builders. In particular, the timing and the program for creating the IL-276 are being discussed. But it is already certain that the military need is no less than 55 cars.

In JSC "Ilyushin" Izvestia confirmed that negotiations with the military are under way. But they refused to comment further.

The intergovernmental agreement on the joint development and construction of the MTA was signed by Moscow and New Delhi in 2007. Three years later, the base agreement was concluded by the Russian United Aircraft Corporation and India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. It was expected that the first flight the aircraft will perform in 2017. Subsequently, the terms were shifted several times. And in late 2015, the Indian side announced the withdrawal from the project.

But in September 2016 representatives of Ilyushin reported that the project of a medium military transport aircraft (SVTS) would be continued. And in June this year SVTS received the official name of IL-276 (earlier in the Russian media the project of MTA-SVTS was called Il-214).

IL-276 is a twin-engine jet with a take-off weight of just over 60 tons. Its payload is about 20 tons. The machine is capable of flying over 6,000 kilometers at a speed of more than 800 kilometers per hour. At the same time, "two hundred and seventy-sixth" is easy to do without runways. He is able to take off, land on the ground.

Independent military expert Anton Lavrov believes that the IL-276 will be very much in demand by the Russian military.

"In the future, it will replace all those transport vehicles that have not been manufactured since the times of the USSR-An-12, An-72, An-32," the expert explained. - This aircraft will be powered by the upgraded IL-76. They are well mastered by industry. This will greatly accelerate the process of debugging the aircraft and making it into service.

Anton Lavrov added that the average transport aircraft is very necessary for transportation to such distances, where it is not expedient to drive a large IL-76, for example, inside military districts or regions.

"The IL-276 will have a run-up and fuel consumption will be much less," the expert said. - It is useful for the transfer of light technology and people. The transportation of supplies to remote garrisons is very in demand, especially in the Arctic. Also on its base will probably be created aircraft EW and radio intelligence. And if you want, you can make a flying laboratory and even a passenger plane to transport the command.

Andrei Frolov, editor-in-chief of the magazine Export of Arms, noted in his conversation with Izvestia that there is a demand for medium-sized military transport planes on the world market.

- Russian development may well interest traditional buyers of our military products. But much will depend on the timing, - the expert explained. - The IL-276 will have strong competitors. Medium transport vehicles with turbojet engines are already offered for export by Brazilian and Chinese manufacturers.

Currently, there are 40 medium military transport An-72 and more than one hundred AN-12 in the fleet of the Russian military department.

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Boeing marks the start of 777X production at Paine Field

It took tax breaks and union concessions to land assembly of the company’s new jetliner in Everett.

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  of its new wide-bodied jet, the 777X, on Monday afternoon.

A celebration was planned at two facilities: the new billion-dollar composite wing factory that

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Boeing bills the 777X as “the largest and most efficient twin-engine jet in the world.” The aircraft will have the largest composite wings of any aircraft in the skies. Models would seat from about 350 to more than 400 passengers, with interior design cues from the 787.

The company aims to start deliveries in 2020.

The company broke ground on the composite wing center in October 2014, after tearing down several single-story office buildings from the 1960s. The building houses one autoclave, which works like a giant pressure oven to cook and harden carbon-fiber wings. There is space to add two more.

The plant promises to make the Everett area a leader in composite-materials manufacturing. Composites are increasingly used in cars and jets because of their high strength-to-weight ratio. They don’t corrode like metal.

Boeing agreed to build the 777X in Everett after securing concessions from union machinists and tax breaks that are expected to save the company an estimated

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Documents that Boeing sent to various states in 2013, while executives were deciding where to build the 777X, said about 3,250 workers were expected to work on the program in 2018. That number was projected to rise to 8,500 in 2024, then decline slightly.

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