Aircraft News

Cabot Aviation arranged the sale of one Airbus A300B4-100F plus two A300B4-200Fs to Kalitta Turbine Leasing, on behalf of TNT Airways SA. The aircraft were phased out of TNT service in 2009.

Astraeus Airlines won four contracts to place nine aircraft this summer. Two Boeing 757s and four 737s will be based in Reykjavik for Iceland Express service; “individual Boeing 757s” will be based in Edinburgh and Newcastle; and one Airbus A320 will be based in Croatia.

UTair took delivery of its first ATR 42-500, also the first of its type to be operating in Russia. UTair has ordered 20 of the aircraft, in an order valued at $426 million (ATW Daily News, April 8). The remaining aircraft will be delivered in 2011 and 2012.