Saab has shipped its first aft fuselage section for an engineering and manufacturing development (EMD)-phase example of the US Air Force’s Boeing T-7A Red Hawk advanced jet trainer. Produced at Saab’s ...

Boeing has expanded its examination of 787 Dreamliners after finding more widespread instances of a defect initially thought confined to the aircraft’s aft fuselage plant in South Carolina, prompting ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Saab recently announced the last of five fully installed T-7A Red Hawk aft fuselages have been shipped from its factory in Linköping, Sweden, to Boeing’s production site in St.

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Spirit AeroSystems says it has identified a quality issue on the aft fuselage section of certain models of the 737 fuselages built in Wichita. Spirit says it has notified Boeing ...

Bombardier has contracted French manufacturer Coriolis Composites to supply automated fiber placement robots to make composite parts for the CSeries’ aft fuselage. Coriolis, which already works with ...

Russia’s Sokol aerostructures facility has finished initial preparations to manufacture the aft fuselage section of Yakovlev MC-21s. The plant in Nizhny Novgorod will produce the section behind the ...

Wing assembly for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter began Aug. 23 at Lockheed Martin's plant in Fort Worth, Texas, where forward-fuselage production started in July, the company said Aug. 23. BAE Systems ...

BAE Systems has delivered the 1,000th aft fuselage section about 18 years after F-35 production began in 2005. (BAE Systems) The final assembly of the 1,000th Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint ...

Rheinmetall is to be awarded manufacture of the centre-fuselage section of the F-35 as part of a wider industrial offset package for Germany. (Lockheed Martin via Janes/Gareth Jennings) Rheinmetall is ...

Boeing has expanded the scope of its examination of 787 Dreamliners after finding more widespread instances of a manufacturing quality defect initially thought confined to the aircraft’s aft fuselage ...