Nuevo Grupo Aeronáutico, S.A. de C.V. or Mexicana Airlines or Grupo Mexicana, has canceled its flights indefinitely. This includes Mexicana, MexicanaLink, and MexicanaClick. The message posted on the airlines website: The current administration received the company seven days ago under Business Reorganization (Concurso Mercantil) and technically bankrupt. Financial deterioration and lack of agreements force Grupo [...]

The Sukhoi Superjet 100 has landed in Italy for the first time at Torino Caselle Airport. The aircraft (prototype SN 950004) took off from the Flight Test Center in Zhukovsky (Moscow) to continue the flight certification campaign. The aircraft was flown by Sukhoi Civil Aircraft’s test pilots Yablontsev Alexander, Korostiev Sergey, Shvetsov Oleg and Gryukanov [...]

HTF7500E engine, that is expected to power Embraer’s new Legacy 450 and Legacy 500 series aircraft has passed its First Engine To Test (FETT) milestone. “The engine has delivered full-rated thrust in static and flight testing,” said Ron Rich, vice president, Propulsion at Honeywell Aerospace. In the first phase of testing, the HTF7500E has completed [...]