BEIJING – GE Aviation of the United States and AVIC Systems of China today announced agreement on forming a new joint venture company to develop and market integrated avionics systems for commercial aircraft customers.

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WICHITA, Kan. – Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) is participating in the annual gathering of the aerospace industry at the Dubai Airshow Nov. 15-19 with the display of five models of its family of aircraft, along with Hawker 4000 owner and professional golfer Sergio Garcia on hand for the event.

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TORONTO – At approximately 10:10 a.m. (Atlantic Standard Time) today, the captain of Porter Airlines flight 243, from Halifax to St. John’s, NL, fell ill.

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DENVER – In response to a forecast for significant snow in the Denver Metro area for the next 48 hours, Frontier Airlines has put the following travel policy guidelines into place for all customers scheduled to travel on Nov. 14 and 15, 2009, who purchased tickets on or before Nov. 13, 2009:

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HALIFAX – Jazz Air LP has been advised by the Canadian Auto Workers that the ratification vote for the tentative agreement which was reached on October 27, 2009 with its Customer Service Agents and Aircraft Services employees resulted in a 56% no vote.

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DALLAS – Southwest Airlines confirms that passengers are NOT avoiding travel today, Friday the 13th. Traditional superstitions are cast aside by many travelers looking for a low fare and great Customer Service.

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DAYTON, Ohio – BAE Systems has successfully flown the largest fully-autonomous unmanned aircraft ever to be built in the UK. The next generation autonomous system, MANTIS, completed its maiden flight in Woomera, South Australia.
During subsequent flights, MANTIS successfully completed a series of trials demonstrating the capability of the system and the potential of large […]

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REYKJAVIK, ICELAND – Icelandair, Iceland’s flagship air company, has recently announced a Northern Lights package deal flying to and from North America this winter.

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EADS North America has delivered the first of five H-72A training helicopters for the U.S. Navy today, marking a new milestone in the company’s production of multi-role helicopters for U.S. military services.

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These pics are from the Saskatoon Control Tower as the crew of Avro Lancaster C-GVRA did a couple of passes at YXE and then went to Winnipeg .
There’s only two of them still flying in the world and today one of them flew over Saskatoon to promote the Canada Remembers Air Show in August 2009.

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