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Safran hails ‘outstanding’ 2025; prepares for Airbus ramp-up
By Tom Batchelor. Feb. 13, 2026, © Leeham News: Safran enjoyed an “outstanding” 2025 with a record number of LEAP engine deliveries, a thriving aftermarket and significant growth across its defense activities, CEO Olivier Andriès said on Friday… Read More
Outlook 2026: Embraer well positioned, but new airplane launch fraught with risk
Subscription Required By Tom Batchelor and Karl Sinclair January 12, 2026, © Leeham News: Embraer enters the new year in a strong position: financially sound, operationally stable, and arguably in prime position to disrupt the Airbus-Boeing duopoly. Credit:… Read More
Avolon: Looking to long-term eco-aviation investment opportunities
Subscription Required By Charlotte Bailey Dec. 11, 2025, © Leeham News: With around 50% of the world’s operational commercial aircraft owned by lessors, companies such as Avolon are keeping a weather eye on the technologies that could power… Read More
Boeing dominates Dubai Air Show opening day (Updated with additional news)
By Scott Hamilton Nov. 17, 2025, © Leeham News: Despite Boeing saying it was going to concentrate on outlining a path for certification of the 777X at the Dubai Air Show, the company dominated the opening day with… Read More
Embraer’s possibilities with a stretched C-390
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Nov. 17, 2025, © Leeham News: Sales of Embraer’s E195-E2 have taken off this year after a long period of stagnation. It also appears that its slow-selling military KC-390 tanker-transport is gaining traction… Read More
Dubai Air Show, Day 1: Boeing’s 777X; Anticipated orders
Boeing Insists 777X Widebody Is Worth the Wait By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor Charlotte Bailey • Writer Nov. 16, 2025, © AIN: Twelve years since Boeing launched the 777X program at the 2013 Dubai Airshow, the OEM… Read More
Airbus’ A321neo, A321LR or A321XLR? Part 2.
Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm October 30, 2025, © Leeham News: We went through the creation of Airbus’s A321 in the first article, and why its initial sales were slow, and why the sales only picked up after… Read More
GE advances on RISE’s dust ingestion, installation testing
Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Arjan Hageman. Credit: GE Aerospace. Oct. 16, 2025, © Leeham News: GE Aerospace has begun dust ingestion testing of its RISE Open Fan engine, the earliest it’s ever done so. The company told… Read More
Airbus Balances Automation and Airmanship
Subscription Required By Chris Sloan Oct. 09, 2025, © Leeham News: Automation, advances in the prospect and single-pilot operation, and overall aircraft safety are great for the airline and commercial aerospace industries. But the downside is that pilot… Read More
FAA begins to ease restrictions on Boeing
Subscription Required Part 2 of 2 By Scott Hamilton Oct. 06, 2025, © Leeham News: Boeing is making progress toward its recovery from six years of back-to-back-to-back crises, but slow certification of three airplane derivatives has been a… Read More