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Boeing reported the launch its third major business unit when Boeing Global Services begins operating alongside Commercial Airplanes and Defense, Space & Security. According to a media release, the new [...]

Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP) unit Skunk Works, responsible for the some of aviation's most pioneering technical achievements has generated profits and also suffered losses. Lockheed believes that although Skunk Works has developed very few products since 1990, Morphing UAV is going to result in the development of shape-changing actuation systems built into the wing-skin material of the unmanned aerial vehicle.

"And knowing is half the battle!" This slogan from the old G.I. Joe cartoon comes to mind when describing the current marketing challenge at our Information Research Center (IRC). Employees […]

G280 DELIVERIES BEGIN Two months after the Gulfstream G280 was awarded full certification, deliveries of the super-midsize type have begun. About a dozen of the 10-passenger aircraft are earmarked for [...]

Northrop Grumman Corp. announced on Sunday that it has agreed to sell its defense consulting unit TASC Inc. to an investor group led by the private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis [...]

AIRBUS SYSTEMS UNIT TRANSFERS TO AEROLIA STRATEGY Airbus' wholly owned French aerostructures subsidiary Aerolia has completed its takeover of the airframer's systems unit at Saint-Nazaire, which employs 154 people and [...]

SINGLE FINANCE Cessna's sister company Cessna Finance is offering a finance programme for new owners of its propeller-driven aircraft including the 172, 182, Corvalis and Caravan models. 'Many people are [...]

business briefs COMPOSITES TO 'FORCE TIER 1 RESTRUCTURING' MANUFACTURING The aerostructures industry will restructure around a handful of tier 1 companies capable of investing enough to keep up with rising [...]

UK business aviation services provider Ocean Sky is expanding rapidly and aggressively despite the economic crisis pummelling sectors of its business. Within the next couple of weeks the London-based company [...]

In a partnership with UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Embrear certified its new U.S. distribution center in Louisville just before Christmas. The facility, operated by the UPS division, was certified by [...]

DIAMOND IN RUSSIA Diamond Airborne Sensing has gained a foothold in the Russian airborne surveillance market following approval of the DA42 multipurpose platform by the Russian civil aviation authority. Diamond [...]

SALE EMMA KELLY PERTH Hawker Pacific to offload piston engine overhaul arm Proceeds to fund growth opportunities in fixed-base operations and aircraft management Australian aircraft sales and flight services company [...]

CONSOLIDATION vladimir karnozov moscow Russian combat aircraft makers to form one unit Russia's United Aircraft (OAK) is to create a single combat aircraft division by merging its RSK MiG and [...]

electromagnetics ALAN RADECKI MOJAVE BAE's Flight Systems tests airborne ground-penetrating sensor pod BAE Systems' Flight Systems division in Mojave, California has completed the design, fabrication and initial flight testing of [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD JetDirect Aviation Holdings LLC, a provider of private aviation services across the US, has reported that it has established Sunset Aviation Inc as its [...]

Staff Textron Inc. agreed to sell the four businesses that make up its fluid and power division to Clyde Blowers Ltd., a United Kingdom-based power, materials handling, logistics and pump [...]

Sentient Jet Holdings is separating into two standalone companies with the aircraft management and charter operations, technical services and FBO business units forming one company and the jet membership, retail [...]

Airbus's Corporate Jet Centre in Toulouse has completed its first cabin outfitting since it opened its doors last September in a move designed to relieve growing pressure and lengthy backlogs [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Sikorsky Support Services Inc (SSSI), a subsidiary of helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft Corp, a unit of United Technologies Corp (NYSE:UTX), announced on Thursday (4 [...]

China Aviation Industry Corporation I (AVIC I) has separated the civilian and military work of subsidiaries Shenyang Aircraft (SAC) and Chengdu Aircraft (CAC), a move that it hopes will make [...]

COUNTERMEASURES john croft washington dc Counter-Manpads system up for test General Dynamics' North Carolina-based Armament and Technical Products division will perform a $2 million test of a ground-based counter-Manpads system [...]

UK companies score well in DTI table Ranking UK aerospace companies feature heavily within Europe's strongest performers in the UK Department of Trade and Industry's annual value-added scoreboard. Four of [...]

Raytheon completes RAC sell-off Divestment Raytheon plans to use the proceeds of the sale of its Raytheon Aircraft (RAC) division to fund stock repurchasing and the early repayment of around [...]

Stork welcomes court ruling Dispute Stork has welcomed an Amsterdam court of appeal's ruling launching an investigation into the company's affairs, but blocking a vote on rebel shareholders' proposed motion [...]

stork. First came the news shareholders Centaurus and Paulson were demanding a judicial probe into its refusal to bow to demands to divest non-core businesses. Now Stork's Fokker Services division [...]

Raytheon has agreed to sell its Raytheon Aircraft (RAC) business unit to a partnership made up of Goldman Sachs' investment arm GS Capital Partners and Canada's Onex for $3.3 billion. [...]

Like once-indulgent parents whose patience with the wayward antics of their offspring has been exhausted, EADS's board of directors will in future keep a much closer watch on the everyday [...]

Diamond Aircraft? Canadian subsidiary has received a C$10 million ($8.9 million) repayable loan from the Ontario provincial government to support development of the D-Jet very light jet. Development and manufacture [...]

Swiss business aviation holding company Sparfell Aviation Technology is restructuring its three European business units in an effort to raise awareness of its Masterjet brand and strengthen the company? identity. [...]

JetBlue Airways and Republic Airways Holdings are expected to begin testing a new Embraer programme to monitor the health of their E-Jet fleets. Dubbed AHeAD (aircraft, health analysis and diagnosis), [...]

EADS Space Transportation and the Netherlands Foundation for Astronomy will launch in June the first phase of a study for a proposed [euro]1.3 billion ($1.54 billion) radio telescope to be [...]

Deltek hybrid diesel-electric technology from Carrier Transicold, a business unit of United Technologies Corp., won top honors in technical achievement from the Truck Writers of North America (TWNA) at the [...]

South Korea has agreed to acquire a Cessna Citation Encore with a flight inspection system supplied by Okalahoma-based NXT. Industry sources say a $12 million contract was tentatively awarded at [...]

Finmeccanica's Alenia Aeronautica unit is negotiating to increase its contribution to Airbus production activities, which could see the company take a minority share in the A350 programme by the middle [...]

Northrop Grumman is creating a logistics support and technical services unit in a move that reflects the growing trend for aerospace and defence companies to seek a tighter grip on [...]

SAN JOSE, Calif. &#151 UTC Power, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., unveiled a bus powered by a fuel cell. UTC's 40-foot Van Hool Hydrogen A330 bus can reach 65 […]

EMS Technologies, Inc.--Announced that its Defense & Space Systems division is performing on a contract from Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Norden Systems business unit to provide maintenance support and upgrades for [...]

Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI) Bedek division has won the $150 million contract to convert 12 ex-Delta Air Lines Boeing 767-200s from passenger to cargo configuration for US carrier ABX Air, [...]

Bombardier will receive [pounds sterling]180 million ($296 million) from the UK government in support of the business jet manufacturer's CSeries programme, which could create around 1,700 jobs at the company's [...]

Airbus was brought back to earth with a bump late last week as a stand-off between French and German shareholders of parent company EADS over who should succeed the division's [...]

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. reported Thursday that its sales of IT outsourcing and integration services increased 7% in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 and 20% for all of […]

NetJets' European division is set to make an operational profit next year as it ramps up operations to accommodate Europe's largest-ever order for business aircraft. NetJets Europe signed a $160 [...]

Boeing has formed a new organisation to co-ordinate analysis, modelling and simulation (AMS) capabilities across its Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) business. The unit will focus on large-scale system-of-system modelling and [...]

L-3 Communications is to buy Northrop Grumman's Canadian navigation systems and space sensors division for $65 million in cash. Acquisition of the former Litton Systems Canada is expected to add [...]

Australian aircraft sales and maintenance group Aeromil hopes to kick-start sales of Cessna's full range of aircraft in the Asia-Pacific region after buying the manufacturer's Cessna Pacific operation. Sydney Bankstown [...]