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Pratt & Whitney will invest more than $63 million in an expansion of its manufacturing operations at its West Palm Beach, Fla. facility beginning in the first half of 2013....More

Airbus has moved its A350 XWB static test airframe to the facility where it will undergo testing to validate the structural design....More

Taiwan’s TransAsia Airways has taken delivery of the first of two Airbus A330-300s....More

Africa’s new low-cost carrier Fastjet is set to launch commercial operations Nov. 29....More

China Eastern Airlines (MU) has ordered 60 Airbus A320s....More

Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) will delay delivery of its regional jet ARJ21 again for “one or two years” because of “inexperience in certification in terms of methods and infrastructure,” according to COMAC VP Luo Ronghuai....More

Air Berlin (AB) is planning to further cut its operational fleet from 158 to 135 aircraft as part of a new drive for more cost cutting....More

Air Lease Corp. has placed two new ATR 72-600s from its order pipeline on long-term lease to Mexico’s Aeromar, scheduled for delivery between April and May 2013. Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) authorized a guarantee of an approximately $500 million loan to Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT S.A. (LOT Airlines) for the export of a fleet of Boeing 787s to Poland. Apple Bank for Savings of New York provided the loan....More

International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) delivered the 15th and final Boeing 737-800 to American Airlines (AA) as part of an aircraft sale and leaseback program. “ILFC…views this transaction as an important achievement in the execution of our strategy to increase ILFC’s market share in the Americas,” ILFC CEO Henri Courpron said. The program began in November 2011; at that time AA had taken delivery of two of the previously-ordered aircraft....More

Bombardier has a “high degree of confidence” it will be able to stick to its revised schedule for the CSeries, a company official said....More

Boeing has achieved firm concept of its 737 MAX, and said it had defined “significant’ changes needed to achieve performance targets....More