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Embraer forms single sales team for freighter and leasing businesses
Embraer has formed a single new executive team charged with overseeing both sales of E-Jets to lessors and sales of cargo aircraft under its E-Jet Freighter programme.
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Colombia selects Gripen E/F as next fighter
The Swedish airframer stresses that the USA has “no veto” over Gripen deliveries, with final negotiations for Bogota’s acquistion pending.
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Executive jets lift Embraer’s first-quarter deliveries
Brazilian airframer Embraer delivered 30 aircraft over the first quarter of this year, including seven commercial models. Embraer handed over three E195-E2s and four E175s during the three months to 31 March. The manufacturer complemented these airliner deliveries with 23 executive jets. These comprised nine mid-sized models – Praetor 500s ...
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Panama to acquire Embraer A-29 Super Tucanos
Embraer has added Panama to its customer list for the A-29 Super Tucano, with the nation to become the eighth Latin American operator of the turboprop-powered type.
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Devaluation of Brazilian currency weighs heavily in Gol’s fourth-quarter loss
Amid a restructuring effort aimed at strengthening its operational and financial performance, Abra Group carrier Gol lost R$5.1 billion ($883 million) during the final quarter of last year.
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USAF need fuels Embraer’s ambition with KC-390 Agile Tanker
Embraer believes its KC-390 is well positioned to enter the US Air Force’s (USAF’s) future inventory in a proposed “Agile Tanker” guise, despite walking away from a partnership with a US-based potential prime.
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Gol secures exit financing as it seeks conclusion of Chapter 11 process
Brazilian carrier Gol recently secured exit financing from unnamed investors as it works to emerge for Chapter 11 restructuring as “a well-capitalised standalone company”.
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Embraer reveals wing-development work as part of ‘New Technologies Demonstration’
Brazilian manufacturer Embraer has revealed the existence of a technology demonstration programme under which it and partners are developing and testing a composite wing and a “flying” laboratory.
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Lanhsa Airlines Jetstream 32 crashes after taking off from Roatan
Twelve people died when a Lanhsa Airlines British Aerospace Jetstream 32 turboprop crashed shortly after taking off from the Honduran island of Roatan on 17 March.
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Omni reveals more details of Bell-funded 525 operational evaluation
More details have emerged on the six-month operational evaluation of the Bell 525 to be carried out later this year in Guyana by offshore operator Omni Helicopters International and funded by the airframer.
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Embraer aims to expand civilian aerospace presence in Poland, pitches E190 conversion site
Embraer aims to significantly expand its civilian aerospace presence in Poland, saying it is considering establishing an E-Jet E2 landing gear overhaul site and an E190 passenger-to-freighter conversion line in the country.
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Brazilian carrier Voepass grounded after latest post-accident safety inspection
Brazilian regional carrier Voepass has been grounded over its inability to resolve operational concerns identified by the country’s civil aviation regulator. Voepass was put under close supervision by regulator ANAC in the aftermath of a fatal ATR 72-500 crash near Sao Paulo last August. ANAC stationed personnel at the company’s ...
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Bell partners with Omni for 525 operational trial in Guyana
Bell will later this year begin an operational evaluation of its 525 Relentless in partnership with Omni Helicopters, as the airframer closes on certification for the long-running super-medium-twin.
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Pentagon deploys additional aviation assets to US-Mexico border
Some 650 military aviation personnel from the US Army are being sent to the USA’s frontier with Mexico, including Sikorsky UH-60 and Boeing CH-47 helicopter crews, as part of Trump administration’s ongoing border security push.
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Argentina unveils first of used F-16s being acquired from Denmark
Buenos Aires is only now rebuilding its fighter fleet more 40 years after diplomatic fallout over the Falklands War left the country barred from accessing modern combat aircraft.
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Wet-lease specialist Avion Express’s new Brazilian carrier secures AOC
Newly-established wet-lease carrier Avion Express Brasil has secured its air operator’s certificate from the Brazilian regulator ANAC. The clearance means Avion Express Brasil is poised to commence operations in the first quarter of this year. It aims to have a fleet of 10 Airbus A320s by the end of 2025. ...
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Azul-Gol combination would create Brazilian airline able to ‘compete globally’
Azul’s leadership team is “really confident” that its proposed business combination with Brazilian competitor Gol will deliver future growth.
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Embraer postpones E175-E2 programme by another four years
Brazilian airframer Embraer has again paused its E175-E2 programme after acknowledging on several occasions that development of the next-generation regional jet has been effectively shelved.
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Arajet signs for five leased Boeing 737s as it targets US flights
Dominican start-up carrier Arajet has a deal to lease a further five Boeing 737 Max 8s as it eyes flights to the USA.
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Volaris ‘carefully planning’ GTF engine removals through at least 2027
Following a year in which it averaged more than 30 Airbus jets out of service for Pratt & Whitney (P&W) engine removals, Mexican low-cost carrier Volaris does not foresee its fleet availability issues being resolved anytime soon.