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Brazil’s Embraer Sees Deliveries, Revenue Growing in 2024

Reuters reports that Brazilian planemaker Embraer expects both its aircraft deliveries and revenues to grow in 2024, the company said on Monday. According to the report, “The world’s third-largest planemaker behind Boeing and Airbus estimated it will deliver between 125 and 135 executive jets this year, compared with 115 in 2023.”
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Boeing Expects Grey Wolf Helicopter Deliveries to USAF to Begin This Year

Air Force Times reports that The Boeing Company “expects to start delivering the Air Force’s first field-ready MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters later this year.” In a Friday release, Boeing “said it finished construction on the first low-rate initial production Grey Wolf in late December.” That helicopter “also started its flight testing at Italian aerospace firm Leonardo’s facility in Philadelphia, the company said.” Boeing “said the MH-130 is continuing the Federal Aviation Administration’s certification testing process.” The Air Force “plans to buy up to 80 MH-139s to replace its fleet of 63 UH-1N Huey helicopters.” Security forces airmen “will use them to patrol the service’s nuclear missile fields, and the service also plans to use these helicopters to transport senior military officials.”
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Business Jet Deliveries Forecasted to Rise 17% This Year

Aviation International News reports, “Deliveries from the top-five business jet OEMs are forecast to jump by 17 percent from an estimated 575 in 2023 to 670 deliveries in 2024, according to investment research firm Jefferies.” This would top “the 652 delivered in 2019, according to the analyst.” Driving “this growth are new programs – including Gulfstream’s flagship G700, which is anticipated to soon enter service, and Dassault Aviation’s Falcon 6X – along with an easing of the supply-chain headwinds, Jefferies added.”
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Embraer’s Commercial, Business Jet Deliveries Boosted 47% in Q2

Aviation International News reported that Embraer deliveries increased by 47% in Q2, with both executive jets and commercial aircraft shipments recording notable increases. Deliveries for the quarter “ended June 30 reached 62, 38 of which were executive jets and 24 commercial aircraft.” This compares “with a total of 47 delivered in the second quarter of 2022, including 30 executive jets and 17 commercial aircraft.” The increases “threaded throughout Embraer’s product lines: Phenom deliveries were up by six units to 25, Praetors by two to 13, E175s by two to 12, and E195-E2s by five to 12. Phenom 300s accounted for the bulk of the light-jet second-quarter deliveries at 22, while the Praetors were nearly evenly split between the 500 (six shipments) and 600 (seven).” These deliveries brought Embraer’s backlog to $17.3 billion at the end of June, compared with $17.4 billion at the end of March. In Q2, Embraer “scored some significant deals, including from NetJets for up to 250 Praetor 500 jets.” If all options are exercised, the deal “would be valued at more than $5 billion with deliveries beginning in 2025.”
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Airbus Deliveries Reportedly Up 6% for First Half of 2023

Reuters reports industry sources indicated on Thursday that Airbus deliveries “increased by 6% in the first half of the year to reach 316 aircraft. … The European planemaker delivered 72 planes in June, up 20% from 60 in the same month last year and up from 63 in May this year, they added. Airbus, which is targeting 720 deliveries for the year, declined to comment ahead of the publication of data on Friday.”
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Boeing Says 737 MAX Deliveries on Schedule

Aviation Week reported that The Boeing Company says it is “on track” to reach its projected 2023 delivery of 400-450 737 MAX aircraft, with company CFO Brian West saying that he “expects monthly delivery numbers to snap back quickly following the recent slowdown related to non-conforming parts.”
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Pratt & Whitney Cleared to Resume F-135 Engine Deliveries

Reuters reported that Raytheon Technologies Corp. said Friday that the US government has “cleared its Pratt and Whitney unit to resume deliveries of its F-135 engine for the F-35 fighter jet, after a halt was put in place in December following the discovery of a safety concern.” In a statement, the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) said that its “engineers worked alongside Pratt & Whitney and Lockheed Martin to develop ‘mitigations for a rare system phenomenon involving harmonic resonance to develop a path forward for safe operation of the F135 in flight.’” The JPO added that the “actions the government and industry team are taking will ensure incorporation of mitigation measures that will fully address/resolve this rare phenomenon in impacted F135 engines.” The JPO also said that the “government was working on drawing up instructions for safely resuming flight operations for impacted and new production aircraft.”
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GAMA Reveals Aviation Sector Full-Year Numbers for Deliveries and Billings

FlightGlobal reports that the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) “revealed the sector’s full-year figures for unit deliveries and billings.” The major airframers “boosted their aircraft output in 2022, revenue increases tended to be even greater, indicating some impact from inflation perhaps, but also that manufacturers are better able to maintain their prices.” For example, business jet deliveries increased in number by only two aircraft, but total value of the jets went up 4.5%. The top five manufacturers – Bombardier, Dassault, Embraer, Gulfstream and Textron Aviation – “all saw their unit deliveries and billings rise in 2022.”
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Embraer Increased Deliveries in 2022

Aviation Week reported that Embraer “delivered 102 executive jets during 2022, including 50 in the fourth quarter (Q4), up from 93 in 2021, as sales in the segment continue its momentum, the company says.” Embraer delivered “66 light business jets during the year, including 33 in Q4, and 36 mid-size jets.”
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