GE Aviation and DLR Measure Flyover Noise Synchronously From Ground and Aircraft
GE Aviation’s Munich-based Advanced Technology team is collaborating with the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) to study noise pollution associated with turboprops. The project measures flyover noise synchronously using a Dornier…
Pakistan International Airlines Cancels Four ATR 72-500 Leases
National carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is returning all four of its ATR 72-500s to lessor ACIA-Aero Leasing prematurely due to high leasing costs. Local news reports, citing an airline…
Air Vanuatu ATR 72-600 Returns After Nine Months
Air Vanuatu’s sole ATR 72-600 has returned to the South Pacific island nation after nine-months in Australia. The ATR 72-600 had gone to Cairns for extensive maintenance before the COVID-19…
Philippines’ Sunlight Express Poised To Launch Operations With ATR 72-500s
Sunlight Express Airways, a new charter airline in the Philippines backed by a local hotel and resort company, aims to begin operations with three ATR 72-500s around Christmas. CEO…
MagniX Partners Sydney Seaplanes to Develop Electric Cessna Caravan
Electric aircraft motor designer MagniX is partnering with Sydney Seaplanes and electric aircraft developer Dante Aeronautical to create electric-powered Cessna Caravans. US-based MagniX says the supplemental type certificate (STC) programme…
Thailand’s Nok Air Announces Management and Board Resignations
The deputy CEO and two board members have resigned from loss-making Thai low-cost carrier Nok Air, which is in bankruptcy protection. Nok Air’s stock exchange announcement says deputy CEO Raj…