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Byline: disputejon hemmerdinger boston Canadian airframer resumes action against Mitsubishi Aircraft's US subsidiary over alledged theft of certification data Bombardier has dragged Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation America (MACA) back to federal [...]

Byline: litigationjon hemmerdinger boston & greg waldron singapore Legal dispute be t ween ai r fr amers deepens as Mitsubishi Aircra f t alleges rival tried to prevent free movement [...]

Byline: lawsuitjon hemmerdinger boston Canadian airframer claims former CSeries employees stole trade secrets to use in support of rival's MRJ programme Bombardier has claimed that several former employees stole sensitive [...]

Another battlefront has opened in the 13-year-old trade war between Boeing and Airbus at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Nine months after ruling that Airbus had ignored several of the [...]

PROPULSION KATE SARSFIELD PARIS GKN on the case with Longitude deal GKN Aerospace will provide low-pressure turbine (LPT) cases to Snecma as part of its contract to supply Silvercrest engines [...]

RESULTS Components manufacturer Avcorp reported a net profit of $20 million for the fiscal year, following a $27 million award from Cessna to settle a dispute. The dispute came about [...]

Beechcraft is suing the US Air Force in an attempt to prevent the service from continuing work on an effort to supply Afghanistan with a Light Air Support (LAS) aircraft. [...]

India's Central Bureau of Investigation has opened cases against 13 individuals and six companies related to the allegations of bribery in a 2010 deal for 12 VIP-roled AgustaWestland AW101 helicopters. [...]

Byline: dispute siva govindasamy singapore Leasing companies consider taking Indian carrier to court over 'stripped-out components' Leasing companies are considering legal action against Kingfisher Airlines amid reports that the cash-strapped [...]

The court case of the widow of US Air Force Captain Jeff Haney versus the contractors who built the F-22 Raptor and its life-support systems has been settled. Haney was [...]

Byline: dispute stephen trimble washington dc Aviation Partners has escalated a patent dispute with Airbus by asking a Seattle court on 31 July to impose an injunction on all new [...]

Byline: DISPUTE david kaminski-morrow london Second aircraft still undelivered as launch operator parks the first in deepening quarrel with Russian manufacturer Armenia's new aircraft remains dormant at Moscow Zhukovsky Armavia [...]

Superior, Textron set for court fight Subsidiaries Avco and SAP are focus of legal battle over replacement components for Lycoming piston powerplants A US court has given permission to reopen [...]

Byline: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY jon ostrower washington dcAviation Partners strikes back in transatlantic dispute, alleging Airbus's sharklets closely parallel its own patented tipsBlended winglet patent-holder Aviation Partners (API) is seeking dismissal [...]

protest LAS bid involved $100m spend Hawker Beechcraft will take action against the US Air Force for dismissing its AT-6 from a selection process only days before the scheduled award [...]

Byline: fuel Move by US state to ban mainstay of piston-powered sector universally opposed by aviation industry General aviation faces a new legal challenge with one US state government threatening [...]

The controversial verdict of the Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash report published in 1995 has been reversed. It is to be hoped that this consigns an outdated military mindset to [...]

HEARING john croft washington dc Lawyers for two US pilots who were flying a US-bound Embraer Legacy 600 involved in a fatal mid-air collision with a Gol Boeing 737-800 in [...]

With both sides in the long-running dispute between Europe and the USA over subsidies for their respective airframers claiming the moral high-ground following the World Trade Organisation's latest ruling, there [...]

safety Continental Airlines is to appeal against a French court's decision to hold the US carrier and one of its mechanics guilty of actions that led to the July 2000 [...]

Byline: legal action john croft washington dc Decision due soon on whether struggling business jet manufacturer must pay $60m in penalties for breach of contract A legal battle with Airbus [...]

Byline: TRADE DISPUTE NIALL O'KEEFFE LONDON European Union protests against the World Trade Organisation's findings on Airbus support 'do not achieve the EU goal of making the subsidies disappear', the [...]

claim john croft washington dc Sikorsky reaches S-92A settlement Sikorsky has reached out-of-court settlements with the lone survivor and families of the 17 passengers and crew killed in the crash [...]

A spate of lawsuits has been filed ahead of official conclusions in two high-profile general aviation crashes in the USA. US car racing organisationNASCAR has sued Cessna for what it [...]

GLOBAL 5000 CRASHES IN NOVA SCOTIA ACCIDENT A Bombardier Global 5000 carrying two crew and eight passengers, including Ron Joyce, co-founder of the US restaurant chain Tim Hortons, crashed in [...]

The aircraft had accumulated 24h of 'virtually flawless flight testing' Excel-Jet is suing the US Federal Aviation Administration for the 22 June 2006 crash of its four-passenger Williams FJ33-powered Sport-Jet [...]

Case for the prosecution and defence The USA, in its case against Europe's support for Airbus, estimates the airframer has already received $15 billion in government launch aid - saving [...]

The US-EU dispute over subsidies for Airbus and Boeing is moving to a conclusion that could reshape civil aircraft development. Is there still an off ramp? When the US government [...]

Lawyers accuse ATC Brazilian lawyers charged with defending the Embraer Legacy crew after the collision with a Gol Boeing 737-800 last September have given the federal police a report alleging [...]

Business Graham Dunn / London Europe last week submitted its first written submission in support of its challenge at the World Trade Organisation against state support for Boeing, claiming the [...]

Details of WTO case over subsidiaries emerge, revealing allegations of sharp pricing practices and unfair competition Airbus has been accused of driving US rivals Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas out of [...]

Finnish operator seeks damages following loss of S-76C Finnish commercial operator Copterline is to challenge US helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky in a US court alleging that failure of a critical part [...]

Business Aviation John Croft / Washington DCA Brazilian judge last week denied a request by lawyers to return passports to the two US pilots of the Embraer Legacy that collided [...]

With Europe's traditional holiday period over, the Airbus-Boeing subsidies dispute is expected to pick up pace. While the World Trade Organisation (WTO) prepares to hear the rival subsidy cases, the [...]

Airbus and Boeing have been forced to apply for exemptions to USFederal Aviation Administration certification rules that effectively limit the maximum cruising altitude of their respective A380 and 787 airliners [...]

Airbus has raised the stakes in its campaign to clear the way for a runway extension at its Hamburg Finkenwerder plant by threatening to abandon plans to deliver A380s from [...]

The US complaint to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over claimed unfair subsidies to Airbus for new aircraft development 'may backfire onto US industry itself', says Airbus chief executive Noel [...]

Airbus is considering shifting deliveries of all higher-gross-weight variants of the A380 ultra-large airliner to Toulouse as it reviews the impact of a court ruling blocking a runway extension at [...]

Airbus is 'reviewing its options' following last week's German court ruling blocking a planned runway extension at its Hamburg Finkenwerder plant. The longer runway is required to allow the plant [...]

Brazil's controversial aircraft shootdown law is expected to come into force in October after being signed by the country's president, Luiz In.cio Lula da Silva. The law is aimed at [...]

The selection of Sikorsky's H-92 to meet Canada's Maritime Helicopter Programme (MHP) requirement has prompted a controversy that could drag the selection process through the courts. The losing Team Cormorant [...]

Repercussions of the failed EU-US aviation liberalisation talks now include legal action against some European Union (EU) states to compel them to renounce their bilateral pacts with the USA. The [...]

The captain of a Hapag-Lloyd Airbus A310-300 that ran out of fuel just short of the runway at Vienna airport three years ago, has been given a six-month suspended prison [...]

It is not rare for individuals to be punished for the sins of the system in which they work. This is what has happened in the Linate court case An [...]

Czech aircraft manufacturer Aero Vodochody will pay the country's ministry of defence a fine of around Ckr750 million ($28 million)for the late delivery of its L-159 subsonic fighters. The payment [...]

Boeing has opened a new front in the marketing war with Airbus over the A380, accusing the European manufacturer of confusing performance claims. It says its rival has been steadily [...]

The Canadian government could be set to face a protracted legal battle, after it disqualified a Lockheed Martin-NH Industries bid to offer the NH90 for its C$3 billion ($2.26 billion) [...]

The Russian government may intervene in a dispute between Russian manufacturer Aviastar and Tupolev Tu-204-120C development financier Sirocco Aerospace, as a shortage of working capital threatens to delay aircraft due [...]

The UK's richest man has widened his lawsuit against Cessna Aircraft to include Raytheon's maintenance arm. Lawyers for the Duke of Westminster have added maintenance contractor Raytheon Aircraft Services to [...]

Northrop pays Northrop Grumman has agreed to pay the USgovernment $80 million to settle fraud charges. The USDepartment of Defense, the USNavy and civilian prosecutors investigated allegations that Newport News [...]