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Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation says says its Regional Jet program has resumed flight tests. The test flight conducted on Wednesday afternoon is the fourth test flight of the MRJ. The first flight took place on November 12. “Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation today resumed flight tests of the FTA-1 for the MRJ (Mitsubishi Regional Jet),” the company said

Airbus has completed the first flight test of its A321neo narrowbody powered by CFM Leap-1A engines. The maiden flight with the A321neo (new engine option), which is the largest of Airbus’s A320 family of single-aisle aircraft, took off from Finkenwerder Airport near Hamburg on February 9 (European time). Airbus said the flight lasted five hours

Some overnight flights taking off to the south on Perth Airport’s Runway 21 will have a new flight path as part of a trial to monitor aircraft noise. Airservices is conducting the trial over two periods between February and April to compare actual noise levels from the new flight path with noise modelling data that

A system safety program manager at Raytheon Australia has been named the Australian Industry and Defence Network (AIDN) national young achiever of the year. Brodie Ryan, 30, was recognised for his work at Raytheon as part of the Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) Alliance, comprising members from Raytheon and ASC, at the AIDN awards presentation in

Cairns Airport expects Silkair’s move to make its flights to Cairns nonstop rather than via Darwin will increase tourism to the region and make the destination more accessible to overseas arrivals. The airport said in a statement Silkair’s three times a week flights between Singapore and Cairns will operate nonstop from May 30 2016. Currently, Silkair

The US Department of Transportation looks to be nearing a decision on Qantas and American Airlines’ application to expand their existing alliance on trans-Pacific routes. While the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and New Zealand government have both given the tie-up the green light, the US DOT is still reviewing the application and in