Air Cargo News.
Feb 11, 2008 UK Dept. for Transport said the number of safety checks scheduled on foreign aircraft will more than double in the year April 1, 2008-March 31, 2009, to 600 from 250 in 2007-08 and rise to 1,000 in 2009-10. CAA ramp inspections of passenger and...

... as HAL joins 100-seater race. (Business Briefing).
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) is planning to manufacture a high-performance lO0-seat, multirole transport aircraft in collaboration with two Russian companies -- Siberia-based Irkutsk Aviation and Moscow-based Ilyushin Aircraft Design Complex. According to HAL Chairman N.R.Mohanti, work on the production of the aircraft, which can also be modified to carry...

Arroyo to inaugurate UPS hub at DMIA.
Byline: FRED ROXAS CLARK FIELD, Pampanga ? President Arroyo will arrive here today to lead in the inauguration and blessing of the $300 million United Parcel Services (UPS) Intra-Asian Hub at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) complex here. Dr. Emmanuel Y. Angeles, president and...

MD-11 freighters for Lufthansa.
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (ST Aerospace) and Boeing have redelivered to Lufthansa Cargo AG (LCAG), the first of five MD-11 passenger aircraft converted into freighters at the Paya Lebar facility of ST Aerospace, the aerospace arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering. The five MD-11s will replace the Boeing 747-200s in the...

Cutbacks hit Boeing Capital, Bombardier, GE. (Business Briefing).
Boeing is to take non-cash charges that will reduce operating earnings by approximately $250 million in 3Q2002. The expected after-tax impact to net earnings is approximately $158 million, or $0.20 per share. Boeing's financing subsidiary, Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC), has assets totalling $11.5 billion, of which $8.8 billion was...

All change in Russia's airlifter contest: in the race to modernise Russia's airlifter fleet, the An-70 is losing ground to the upgraded IL-76MF, with the Tu-330 and IL-214 coming up strongly on the outside. (Defence).
Things are moving in the battle to supply new medium transport aircraft for Russia s armed forces, and its civil air transport sector. The position of the Russian-Ukrainian An-70, the prototype of which has been undergoing flying tests for several years, has become much weaker. The Russian air forces...

Company Watch - TAM.
May 5, 2008 TAM changed the name of its cargo business from TAM Express to TAM Cargo. The growing unit generates revenue from carrying cargo in the bellies of its 110 passenger aircraft. It said it will invest BRL30 million ($17.9 million) this year on infrastructure for...

Commercial aviation industry hovering on the brink.
With the ageing Russian commercial transport fleet crying out for renewal, the entire Russian aviation industry produced and sold a grand total of four new aircraft last year. Any consideration of the Russian commercial-aviation sector must include the complex, integrated structure that links design bureaux, manufacturing plants,...

First MRTTs for Germany, Canada.
The first two Airbus aircraft with air-to-air refuelling capabilities, A310 Multi-Role Transport Tanker (MRTT) aircraft, were handed over to the German Air Force and the Canadian Air Force, during a ceremony in Dresden, Germany. A total of six A310 MRTTs, to be used both for passenger and cargo transport...

Grob utility jet flies.
Grob Aerospace's new Grob SPn Utility Jet completed its maiden flight from Allgau Airport (EDJA) near Memmingen in southern Germany on July 20. Achievement of this milestone follows completion of intensive systems and ground tests, and marks a major step on the way to scheduled EASA certification for the...