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3 hrs ago | National Public Radio

Business News

A Boeing Dreamliner took off Monday - it was a United Airlines flight from Houston to Chicago.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 787, Airlines, United Airlines

8 hrs ago | Lancashire Telegraph

East Lancashire air crash victim is named by police

The East Lancashire man who died following the aircraft crash at Caernarfon Airport yesterday has been named as Iain Nuttall.

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Related Topix: Civil Aircraft, Piper Cherokee, Piper Aircraft

Mon May 20, 2013

Fox News

Aviation Industry to Government: Cut the Red Tape

Leaders of the multibillion-dollar global business aviation industry see signs of recovery from four years of recession, they said on Monday, but they appealed to governments to ease the way ahead by cutting taxes and red tape.

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Related Topix: Civil Aircraft, Cessna 150, Gulfstream 150, Cessna Aircraft, Gulfstream Aircraft, Embraer Legacy 500, Embraer Aircraft, Business News

WHDH

Plane makes belly landing at Newark Airport

A US Airways flight made a belly landing at Newark International Airport in the early morning hours on Saturday after the plane reported a problem with its landing gear, a spokesman for the airline said.

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Related Topix: Transportation, Airlines, Piedmont Airlines, de Havilland DASH-8, Commercial Aircraft, de Havilland Aircraft

FiveThirtyEight

In Transit Blog: Walkabout - 5/20: Dreamliners Lift Off; Post-Sandy Beaches Surveyed

Dreaming Again Boeing's embattled 787 Dreamliner , no longer grounded for safety concerns, returned to America's airways today.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 787, Stonington, CT, Volcanic Eruption, Natural Disasters

TheStreet.com

Virgin America: An Airline Sprouts in California

Parker is about to run the world's biggest airline and Baldanza heads a successful start-up that has captured Wall Street's affections.

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Related Topix: Virgin America, Commercial Aircraft, Civil Aircraft, Airbus Aircraft, Airbus A320, Business News

KRCR

Return of the Dreamliner: 5 things to know

No longer grounded for safety concerns, Boeing's embattled 787 Dreamliner now has a few things to prove.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 787, George Bush, US News, Federal Aviation Administration, Travel

Sun May 19, 2013

Star-Telegram.com

United to restart 787 flights on Monday

The planes are returning after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 787, Nigeria, World News

Iol.co.za

Zuma defends Gupta jet landing

The Jet Airways Airbus A330-200 that brought the Gupta family members and guests to the Waterkloof Air Force Base is seen moments before taking off.Picture: Phill Magakoe President Jacob Zuma has tacitly defended the landing of the Gupta chartered jet by bizarrely insisting that the Waterkloof Air Force Base is not a national key point.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force, Commercial Aircraft, Airbus Aircraft, Airbus A330, Wedding, World News, South Africa, Africa

MyFoxAtlanta

Jet donated by Travolta being moved to Ga. museum

The chief executive of Delta Air Lines says he plans to add jobs at the carrier's reservation center in the northeastern Minnesota city of Chisholm.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Morehouse College, Education Etc., Civil Aircraft, Gulfstream 100, Gulfstream Aircraft, Sparta, GA, US Military, Robins Air Force Base, US Air Force

Al Bawaba

The airline currently has a backlog of 21 Boeing airplanes on order

Boeing has delivered a 777-300ER extended range plane to Saudi Arabian Airlines , marking the latest milestone in its longstanding relationship with the airline and the kingdom.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing 777, Boeing Aircraft

NJ.com

N.J. woman describes plane's emergency landing

Firefighters sprayed foam on Piedmont Airlines Flight 4560, operating for US Airways, after it made an emergency belly landing around 1 a.m. at Newark Liberty International Airport.

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Related Topix: Transportation, Airlines, Piedmont Airlines, Pompton Plains, NJ, US News, Federal Aviation Administration, de Havilland DASH-8, Commercial Aircraft, de Havilland Aircraft, Fire

Falmouth Packet

New jets touch down at Classic Air Force at Newquay

The number of jets on display at the Classic Air Force hangar at Newquay Cornwall Airport has risen as two new iconic planes land at the attraction.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force, BAC Jet Provost, BAC Aircraft, Military Aircraft

Sat May 18, 2013

AVHerald

Lionair B738 at Denpasar on Apr 13th 2013, landed short of runway and came to stop in sea

Indonesia's NTSC released their preliminary report confirming the aircraft was PK-LKS, MSN 38728, which had formerly been registered with Malindo Air under registration 9M-LNB and had first flown on Feb 5th 2013 and been delivered on Feb 19th 2013.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 737

Fiji Village

Second Airbus arrives next Thursday

The second Airbus A330 for national carrier Air Pacific will arrive next Thursday in Nadi.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Airbus Aircraft, Airbus A330, Oceania, World News, Fiji, France,

Post and Courier

S.C. Gov. Haley not going to Paris Air Show

Various aircraft manufacturers from around the world descend on either England or France each summer to promote and sell their planes.

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Related Topix: Nikki Haley, US Governors, Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 787, Mark Sanford, Charleston, SC, North Charleston, SC

Ledger-Enquirer.com

Kansas City museum raising cash to fly 'Connie'

The Kansas City museum's Constellation, or "Connie," is one of only a handful of the 856 that were built and is still airworthy - with a little work.

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Related Topix: Lockheed Constellation, Commercial Aircraft, Lockheed Aircraft

Detroit Free Press

What do fliers fear more: Crying babies or smelly adults?

A Boeing 787 takes off from George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston on Nov.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 787

RIA Novosti

Plane Catches Fire Upon Landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport

MOSCOW/STAVROPOL, May 18 Moscow's Vnukovo Airport was temporarily closed on Saturday morning after a plane carrying about 140 people from the southern Russian city of Stavropol caught fire upon landing, a law enforcement source said.

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Related Topix: Fire, Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 737

Autoblog

Face to giant face with the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class [w/videos]

Mercedes-Benz isn't a brand afraid to put on a show for any old reason at all like, just because it's Tuesday but the premiere of the 2014 S-Class , even by the standards we're used to, was Broadway-theater intense.

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Related Topix: Coupe, Hybrid, Mercedes-Benz S-Class, Mercedes-Benz, Sedan, Wagon, Mercedes-Benz E-Class, Convertible, Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, Commercial Aircraft, Civil Aircraft, Airbus A380, Airbus Aircraft