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India’s FLY91 has placed a firm order for 40 ATR 72-600 turboprops valued at about $1 billion at list prices. Deliveries are scheduled from 2027 through 2032, creating a significant multiyear commitment for ATR’s production system and regional-aircraft market.
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India’s FLY91 has placed a firm order for 40 ATR 72-600 turboprops valued at about $1 billion at list prices. Deliveries are scheduled from 2027 through 2032, creating a significant multiyear commitment for ATR’s production system and regional-aircraft market.
Honeywell Aerospace CEO Vimal Kapur says the company reacted too slowly to supplier problems that have affected its outlook, including a revised 2026 forecast. The firm plans an overhaul of its supply-chain response, which he says is intended to strengthen the business for decades.
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Boeing has appointed Sean Black, the executive overseeing its Wichita operation, to lead development of the company’s future production system. The move comes as Boeing prepares the industrial foundation for an all-new single-aisle aircraft, making manufacturing strategy a central focus of the program’s early development.
Deutsche Aircraft has completed low- and high-speed taxi testing of the new landing gear for its D328eco regional turboprop and entered the initial flight-test phase. The milestone advances the aircraft’s landing-gear certification program and broader development campaign.
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GE Aerospace is taking steps to secure capacity for critical engine castings, underscoring the importance of specialized manufacturing resources to commercial and defense propulsion programs. The move highlights continuing supply-chain pressure around components essential to engine production and delivery schedules.
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Sweden has awarded Saab a SEK 2.9 billion ($303 million) contract covering demonstrators, advanced studies and manned-unmanned concepts for a future combat-air system. The work will support national decisions on Sweden’s air-combat capabilities beyond 2040 and move the program into its next phase.
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The manufacturers’ latest data show both Airbus and Boeing ahead of their delivery totals at the same point last year, although momentum moderated after a strong summer. Boeing delivered 51 aircraft in August, including 41 737 MAXs, and has delivered 418 aircraft year to date as 787 handovers slowed.
The 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks offers a moment to examine how the event affected Airbus and Boeing, two companies whose commercial aircraft businesses were exposed to the resulting disruption across the global aviation industry and wider economy.
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